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Opting to stay online, do you believe those schools are playing it too safe in returning to online learning? >> there are two things at play. good morning, jonathan. happy new year. schools can be operated safely, even in the face of high case rates because school buildings tend to be safe. in that sense, it may be overly cautious to close at this point. were facing a lot of staffing issues. as you say, its going to take pretty significant efforts for school districts to open in some places. we ...

It goes beyond snacking and snapping. its a serious learning loss. puts us at a disadvantage for students, emotional and serious mental health ramifications for kids across the country. >> martha, i saw it first hand with my kindergartener, with my second grader, particularly my 6-year-old where theyre not built to be learning online. attention spans are short at that age. perhaps theyre behind. were trying to catch up for lack of a better term. and my kids are now going to school. she said i ca...

♪. will: the insanity continues. around 300 schools will keep their doors shut after winter break because of concerns over the omicron variant but could this cause more harm to our students? in a new "washington post" op-ed experts warn quote, our school district leaders continue to view public education as non-essential service. their direct consequences of school closures on childrens mental health related to the isolation stunted social development and the associated learning loss. the writ...

With us. doctor, lets talk about the toll. we have two years worth of evidence about this. we talked anecdotally, depression, suicides, learning loss. what happened to our children? >> mental health professionals worsening in severity and need for mental health services and motivations for this was that we have seen a trend in public schools to close whenever there is a problem in the school, whether staff shortage or teachers being stressed or behavioral problems in children and we saw during t...

Was diverted to illegal immigrants who violated our laws. the whole thing doesnt add up. concerns every day are going back to this school closure nonsense. there is no scientific, no medical reason to be closing down schools. the fact that well have more learning loss after we did a profound disservice to our kids many of whom were in the worst socio-economic circumstances. shutting down our schools was the biggest failure. we allow the fear of adults to infect the classroom and rob our kids of ...

Because basically we are now learning to live with a virus, hard to imagine, and not die by it, which is the only option we had in 2020. >> i hear in your voice a lot of optimism. i think there was a lot of yo-yo, we are going back to the office, not going back to the office. were going back to the office, but not just yet. there has been a lost to that corporate culture and we have to talk about learning loss. youre a mother, youre also an instructor. at what point do we have to make that criti...

Guise for staffing issues. >> there is very little spread within schools, and we saw a huge amount of harm to kids emotionally, with learning loss. none of that has so far been remedied. >> special education teacher michael powers told fox news that virtual days have been a strain on educatorsdu,cators, ts not about teachers not wanting to work. >> i had to learn how to do play therapy and therapy with children with developmental disabilities and special needs virtually, which was exhausting. so...

I think its right that the government is now taking this step to prioritise keeping schools open. and it is important as far as possible we can do everything to keep schools open. for three reasons, firstly, because we know that over the course of the pandemic theres been considerable learning loss amongst pupils. particularly those in secondary and particularly those in secondary and particularly those from disadvantaged families. we also know that keeping schools open is important for young pe...

Now were fortunate to have a milder variant that for more children is producing milder disease but is moving swiftly across the region. after two years of mitigation measures to kind of push back in a direction of max security, the reality is were in a better place. with milder disease in most children, the goal now is to simplify the process by which schools can manage moving forward and keep kids in schools. >> martha: yeah. you know, theres been some guidance put out by the department of educ...

Learning loss and getting a better footing with regards to the mental health issues and the challenges around social isolation is to resume the lives of children and their families as quickly as possible. >> martha: that is action that will probably provide the best benefit right now. just to go ahead. but you said, if we look at the people being asked to quarantine right now, we would be quarantining everybody. what policy do you recommend? someone has been exposed, what should they do if they ...