We hate to say we told you so, but we warned this would happen since summer 2020, when the New York Times was banging the drum daily – against all evidence – for school closures.
“The kindergarten crisis of last year, when millions of 5-year-olds spent months outside of classrooms, has become this year’s reading emergency. As the pandemic enters its third year, a cluster of new studies now show that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, up significantly from before the pandemic.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/