“The science and data are clear that we can reopen schools safely and successfully,” Dr. Kim Newell Green, a pediatrician and professor at UC–San Francisco, recently told the New York Times. “However, media and the unions have fostered uncertainty and fear. We should all find a way to do right by our children with innovation and creativity, but above all, science.”
As Dr. Sandro Galea, the dean of the Boston University School of Public Health, wrote in Scientific American a few weeks ago, “Children have proven uniquely resilient to COVID-19, but many are already suffering lasting educational, mental and physical harms.”
Indeed, it’s not hyperbole to say that prolonged COVID school closures may rank among the worst and most destructive policy decisions in modern American history.
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