From the "People Who Pull Numbers Out Of Their Asses Department"

Also, New York Post (automatic source fail):

The price tag for COVID school closures that led to historic learning losses for kids could top $28 trillion

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Add one more grim figure to the toll exacted by disastrous COVID-era school closures: a huge penalty to the lifetime earnings of students forced to suffer through remote schooling, totaling possibly as much as $28 trillion (more than the nation’s entire GDP) over the remainder of the 21st century. Those figures come from a new study by Eric Hanushek, a Stanford University economist and expert on education, following on his own 2020 study, as well as work published by professors at Harvard and Dartmouth in October. The new study analyzes the hideous nationwide decline in 8th-grade math scores on the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a k a the nation’s report card. The average drop in math scores amounted to eight points — the largest ever recorded, erasing all gains since 2000, equal to as much as 0.8 missed years of school and a likely lifetime penalty of 5.6% to earnings.

Of course, this is all the fault of the Democrats and the teachers' union.

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The tragedy is that the learning losses were avoidable. Schools were never vectors of COVID transmission. Yet the United Federation of Teachers, working hand in glove with the federal government and blue-state pols, conspired to close them during the pandemic anyway. That forced students and parents to accept less-effective remote education. UFT head Randi Weingarten’s justification for the closures? The cruel, heartless claim that “kids are resilient.” Yet the new study suggests they’ll pay a big price. But don’t expect Weingarten or any of her co-conspirators to seriously apologize — let alone take responsibility.

Um, just a second. Wasn't somebody named Trump, along with the GQP, in charge during the first year of the pandemic? The period during which most of the school closing took place?

tl/dr summary: The usual bull ****.

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