IN THE NEWS---SCHOOL CLOSURES BROUGHT THE WORST SELF-INFLICED COVID HARM

School closures brought the worst self-inflicted COVID harm By Phil Kerpen and Stephen Moore---April 2, 2023 8:39pm

Of all the COVID policy blunders, the most unforgivable — which will have by far the longest-lasting negative effects — is the closure of schools.

It was almost exactly three years ago that education officials and politicians started to put padlocks on the school doors.

Harvard was the first domino to fall. The vast majority of public schools soon followed suit.

The result — as we predicted at the time — was disaster.

Closures at the end of the 2019-20 school year alone will be associated with 13.8 million years of life lost, one study found, as educational attainment has a well-established relationship with both income and life expectancy. READ MORE AT School closures brought the worst self-inflicted COVID harm (nypost.com)