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On the recordFebruary 26, 2021
Millions of American school children will soon have missed a year of in-person instruction, and we may have inflicted permanent damage on some of them and on our country. The educational losses are disproportionately the fault of Democratic Governors and mayors. Those are not my words but the content of an article in The New York Times. The article goes on to say: ``The blunt fact is that it is Democrats, including those who run the West Coast, from California through Oregon to Washington State, who have presided over one of the worst blows to the education of disadvantaged Americans in history. The result: more dropouts, less literacy and numeracy, widening race gaps, and long-term harm to some of our most marginalized youth.'' The article continues: ``As many as 3 million children in the United States have missed all formal education, in-person or virtual, for almost a year.'' Democrat policies leaving schools closed have inflicted a pandemic of depression, anxiety, behavioral problems, drug abuse, and suicide among school-age children. You said this bill will get children back in school, but the funds in this bill that are education-related have nothing to do with reopening schools. It leaves them closed. I hope parents of the children who are locked out of their schools are watching what you are doing, how you have abandoned their children in favor of your powerful political friends.…
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Gary Palmer
Republican · Alabama

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