Up here in the People's republic there is quite the uproar about the upcoming loss of federal COVID funding for schools. Now, to the best of my knowledge the COVID "threat" is virtually gone and there's no significant risk of future outbreaks on a massive scale. Yet, several years after COVID ceased to be problem our schools are still clinging to this increased funding. They aren't even pretending that it's being spent on COVID related expenses, they just got used to the extra "free" money from the feds and want people from across the country to fund our local schools. It seems surprising that these districts are so stupid as to have thought that this temporary, emergency, funding for COVID isn't going to last forever and for non-COVID related expenses.
Heaven forbid we look at the damage done to students due to the response to COVID.
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