Revisiting The Terrible Decision To Keep Our Schools Closed

Wrote this during the pandemic as I pleaded for schools to reopen. I knew first hand the extended school closures were hurting kids.

I take little joy in the vindication in the fact that many now realize how damaging this decision was. I still find it hard to let this go. I was heavily involved in the teacher union when I first began my career, but left when their sole priority of protecting teachers, clashed with my devotion to public education. But leading up to the pandemic I wa…