"We are actively dealing with problems remote learning caused. A whole generation of kids is further behind than they were tracking to be behaviorally, mathematically, and in reading scores."
Gee I wonder what would do that, is it three+ years of unmitigated exposure to a virus that causes brain damage? No, the problem is they stayed home, which makes you developmentally challenged, as we all know. Oh, you don't want to get COVID? Then stay home.
They stayed home for less than half a year half a decade ago. Not a single school in my area was shut down for any length of time since then, except of course when there were staff shortages cause so much of the staff had Covid thanks to unmitigated spread. People are just looking for anything to blame our decline in education that’s not just years and years of gutting public education.