The 180 Podcast | Anya Kamenetz: We Didn’t Prioritize Kids—COVID, The Stolen Year, and Where We Go Now
In her new book The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now—Anya Kamenetz writes that in March 2021, experts in pediatric infectious diseases reported that American youth were experiencing food insecurity, lack of socialization, depression, isolation….and were suffering academically, emotionally, socially and physically.
Nonetheless, she laments, “our country has continued failing to put children at the center of our decision-making to prevent or remedy these eventualities even though they were foreseen from the very beginning. We did grave harm to children simply by failing to consider their needs at all.”
Teachers and experts Kamenetz interviewed revealed the cascading losses of delayed emotional development, missed learning opportunities, and social disconnection as schools shifted operations to remote learning.
But what about now? Have children—and schools—rebounded? What lessons for learning came out of the pandemic—and how are parents, educators and administrators applying them to everyday teaching?
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