the phrase the question what one watches on television. my god all those schools must be closed. what will we do? the idea that parents don t think it s important for their children to be in school and teachers know it as well. dana: let s bring in charlie hurt opinion editor at the washington times and fox news contributor. so you see we looked it up. number of schools closed the week of january 17th, 3,430. maybe that gets you to 95% but there is also this. what kids have lost. here is this from unicef. the pandemic generation is at risk of losing 17 trillion in future earnings from knowledge deficits. what did you think of yesterday? are you clapping for me? yes, i am. always applauding for you. no, it s really incredible. president biden didn t reveal anything else yesterday was that he remains wildly out of touch with regular voters.
might not have been right thing. quickly a thought from you about this. the cdc is changing its milestone guidelines for little kids and speech saying that the study of future earnings loss due to the year of online learning could make these children at risk of losing $17 trillion in future earnings from knowledge deficits. get a final word from you on that. well, i think it s really important that there is an earnest effort to look at this because clearly the covid pandemic and the response particularly with virtual learning and masking i think has had enormous impact on childhood development. i m glad that they are going to be more aggressive in looking at this. covid itself can have an issue about one in four or five people get covid have more of a long covid syndrome but masking and virtual learning have had a real impact on childhood development and getting that information is very important. dana: and sharing it with everything as well.
classes and new covid restrictions complicating matters. ian prior, executive director of fight for schools. the study from the world bank and unicef shows the pandemic generation is at risk of losing $17 trillion in future earnings from knowledge deficits. and in iowa educators suffering education suffering 21 schools dropped to the lowest rating in that school s history. which is just terrible for the students, for our future, and yet looks like we might be going back into this, ian. it really is crazy. what are schools for? schools are to educate children. when you have teachers that want to take weeks off or burn-out, the children are the ones that are suffering. you have schools now that are canceling fs and ds in class. it s crazy. you cannot succeed unless you fail. so look, the real problem here is that kids are sponges