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Far from just individual stories however, national test results also show the horrifying drop in performance among schoolchildren.

According to The New York Times, reading and math levels for 9-year-olds have dropped to levels last seen more than twenty years ago.

For the first time since student achievement was tracked in the 1970s by the National Assessment of Educational Progress, reading scores collapsed.

These drops were most pronounced amongst students who were already struggling - students in the bottom 10th percentile in performance lost 12 points in math, a rate four times worse than those who were more highly ranked.

Perhaps what’s most offensive about these results is the feigned ignorance of those reporting on them.

Many warned about this unfolding disaster years ago, campaigning openly for schools to be opened as normal.

Yet anyone who suggested that schools should open were accused of “racism,” “sexism,” and “misogyny,” as the Chicago Teacher’s Union so helpfully summarized in a now-deleted tweet