Friend of the Treehouse John Spiropoulos shares a ground report from the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles where concerned parents and grandparents are protesting against the school district policy to keep in-class education stopped. As noted in the interviews, the COVID school shutdowns are hurting everyone, particularly those communities where education was already a challenge.
The “progressive” policies and regulations around COVID in California are impacting minority neighborhoods at an alarming rate. In essence, the democrat shut-down policies create racist outcomes. As John Spiropoulos notes: ” The year long shutdown of live, in-class instruction in Los Angeles public schools has had an adverse effect on children’s academics, particularly those in low income areas. This report focuses on a back-to-school rally organized by the Women of Watts organization.”
The proportion of child mental health visits to Emergency Rooms dramatically increased from March through October 2020 over the same period in 2019.
• The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits rose 24% for children 5-11 compared to the same time period the previous year.
• The share of mental health-related hospital emergency department visits increased 31% for adolescents age 12 to 17 compared to the same time period the previous year.
• While there were increases for both males and females, female cases were far higher than male cases.
(Source: CDC November 13, 2020)
The degradation of our educational system is exponential now, and the unions are once again part of the problem.
Remember, the vast majority of money into the bank accounts of politicians, their families and bureaucrats within the Deep State, comes from foreign governments.
