Kids are far behind in school
I&#x27;ve heard from private school teachers that they expected exactly this to happen, and enrollment in private schools has boomed as parents that could used the schools that cared about staying open (and opened as soon as they could).<p>This was well supported and non-controversial pre-pandemic, where we had research  results showing that simply having participation in remote schooling lowers high school graduation rate by a significant fraction. But during the pandemic, we still closed schools for most pupils in the developed world.<p>This was one more problem where the contemporary governance mechanism is &quot;we pretend it won&#x27;t&#x2F;isn&#x27;t&#x2F;didn&#x27;t happen because it&#x27;s politically inconvenient as it contradicts high level leadership decisions (and we can&#x27;t cause face loss to said leadership)&quot;.