Bring Kids Back OSD

Except for the Oregon School Board, Public Health Madison & Dane County and their allies, everyone realizes the negative impact OSD's slavish devotion to remote learning had on Oregon's young people. The Wall Street Journal highlights a few:

- Among the approximately 40,000 candidates taking the Fundamentals of Engineering exam for work as professional engineers, scores fell by about 10% during the pandemic...that means fewer engineers on the job and a lower degree of competency among those who make it. The sharpest declines in scores came on questions measuring the most specialized knowledge. Structural engineers failed to answer questions about the use of trusses in the construction of bridges and roadways.

- Despite lowered standards at many schools during the pandemic, high-school graduation rates fell.

- Scores for college admissions exams dropped to the lowest level in three decades.

- New workers have problems with soft skills, such as an inability to deal with frustration.

- Managers at the John Ball Zoo are coaching seasonal workers in their teens and early 20s on basics such as why it’s important to look visitors in the eye, and how to make change at a cash register.

- Scores on Army recruiting exams fell 9% since the pandemic and prompted the Army to create new testing boot camps to help recruits pass the test, a requirement for gaining admission to the military. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a Biden political appointee, believes a lot of the struggles are tied into lethargy and isolation that took root when students learned remotely during the pandemic.

The Oregon School District kept our kids out of in-person education for a year. How will Oregon graduates compete against graduates of schools that returned to full time, in-person learning in the fall of 2020?

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It kinda makes you wonder...when Steve Zach and Leslie Bergstrom said that Public Health Madison & Dane County would not allow Oregon School District to provide in-person education, would there really have been any consequences? Or would PHMDC ust say, "The COVID pandemic was a difficult time for all, and Dane County concluded that it was not in the public interest to continue prosecution of this case."

Dane Co. health officials drop pandemic-era public gathering fines against dance studio MADISON, Wis. -- Public health officials in Dane County say they will stop trying to collect fines levied against a dance studio they claim violated a public health order banning