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<p>The “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/closing-schools-hurts-kids-and-doesnt-help-anyone-else">We Can’t Open Schools</a>” crowd of 2020 became the “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-true-cost-of-masking-young-kids-forever">Kids Are Resilient</a>” squad of 2021, and ultimately graduated to the “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/teachers-unions-are-why-more-parents-want-school-choice">We Don’t Talk About Learning Loss</a>” chorus of 2022.</p>
<p>Now that we’re in the aftermath of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/were-on-the-cusp-of-a-lost-covid-generation-do-we-care">one of the biggest policy disasters in modern memory</a>, the same people who made those decisions (or relentlessly advocated for them) would rather not talk about what’s happened since.</p>
<p>And why would they? It was a year or two ago already—shouldn’t we just move on and not play the “blame game”? Besides, a lot of them are being rewarded with new, powerful positions in education.</p>
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Now that we’re in the aftermath of one of the biggest policy disasters in modern memory, the same people who made those decisions (or relentlessly advocated for them) would rather not talk about what’s happened since.
And why would they? It was a year or two ago already—shouldn’t we just move on and not play the “blame game”? Besides, a lot of them are being rewarded with new, powerful positions in education.
