Parents: If you are worried that the wholesale shuttering of schools throughout 2020 and the shift to a disastrous, unhappy "virtual" form of "education" may have had a negative effect on your child's educational and intellectual development—what's known as "learning loss"—then you can rest easy with United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz's assurances on the matter:
"Our kids didn't lose anything. It's OK that our babies may not have learned all their times tables. They learned resilience. They learned survival. They learned critical-thinking skills. They know the difference between a riot and a protest. They know the words insurrection and coup."
"They learned survival." What exactly were Los Angeles schoolchildren up to in the past year? Fighting bears with Bowie knives? They didn't learn "survival," they learned how to stay at home and look at computer screens for eight hours a day.
Trying to paint the last year and a half as some sort of gritty, inspiring victory for children—rather than a tragedy that adults inflicted upon them because they were afraid of a virus with a 99% survival rate—seems unlikely to resonate with all but the most hyper-woke of parents (especially those rich enough to have given their kids a meaningful education during school closures).
Any parents in Los Angeles with "critical-thinking skills" should probably think critically about getting their kids out of the city's public schools as fast as possible. Just a thought.
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