Never forget, the Swampers send their kids to PRIVATE SCHOOLS!-----Report Highlights Cost of Pandemic School Closures, Limited Effectiveness of Lockdowns

Report Highlights Cost of Pandemic School Closures, Limited Effectiveness of Lockdowns link
(The Center Square) – A working paper that examined how U.S. states responded to the COVID-19 pandemic found that states with strict lockdowns and other COVID-19 policies did little to prevent COVID-19 deaths, but those economic restrictions and school closures proved costly in other ways...

• “One study found that school closures at the end of the previous 2019-2020 school year are associated with 13.8 million years of life lost. 
  
• An [National Institutes of Health] analysis found that life expectancy for high school graduates is 4 to 6 years longer than high school dropouts,” the authors wrote. “The [Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development] estimates that learning losses from pandemic era school closures could cause a 3% decline in lifetime earnings, and that a loss of just one third of a year of learning has a long-term economic impact of $14 trillion.”

The report noted that, “Unlike mortality or economic outcomes, closing public schools was entirely under the control of policymakers. 

Almost all private schools were open...Read all!!!”