Just overheard a conversation from a teacher on school closings during the pandemic

[Farmer-Rick]

65. I missed 30 days of school one year

By skipping out and just not going, that was back in 1975. School avoidance was always a thing, it just was thought of as a discipline issue. Punishment was usually the result for not going to classes. Most school administrators were not seeing it as a reaction to stress, bullying and trauma. But yeah, after COVID, it has become more prominent.

And now we have legal home schooling. That encourages more parents to keep their children at home. And some home schoolers actually turn out better educated kids than what the schools can. And some home schoolers turn out worse, especially in social development.

But you're right, schools needed to be closed to save parents' and grandparents' lives. It's public health 101, especially in the beginning when intubation provided questionable results.