Washington Post piece highlights how schools that did ‘less’ to contain COVID ‘flourished’

A Washington Post article highlighted the Lewis-Palmer school district in Colorado Springs Monday, concluding that their doing “less” to contain COVID-19 and keeping schools open meant students “flourished.”

The piece, authored by D.C. education reporter Perry Stein, noted that teachers and teachers unions across the country, especially in cities like New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, fought to keep schools closed and continued with virtual learning throughout the pandemic.

“But, over time, these measures also imposed costs: Today, students are contending with significant learning loss and mental health issues,” Stein wrote.

The article added that despite there still being an ongoing debate on what the right thing to do was, “the experience of systems like Lewis-Palmer offers evidence for those who say schools could have avoided some of the prolonged closures — and the serious academic and social impacts that came from them.”

The Washington Post reported that the school district supported early decisions and studies which “found that children under 10 didn’t transmit the virus at high rates.” – READ MORE