don. that is absolutely right. we ve deprioritized kids at every step of this pandemic. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning and there is a casualness around closing schools i just don t understand. the costs are severe and accumulating, well documented. everything from loss in reading and math gains for kids in school. your last caller said a hundred thousand kids missing from the school system last year. we see the immediate impact of school closures on the inability to detect child maltreatment. in new york city in the first three months of closures in 2020, 8,000 expected cases of child maltreatment were expected to come in. that didn t happen. extrapolating out to the country, 300,000 cases. schools are the first chance to detect abuse. we see millions of kids relying on schools for nutrition and food. we see impacts on working women in particular in drop outs of the labor force the closing
back, unless the party is willing to tell donald trump enough, i m afraid that the gop is on the road for more losses of folks like me. you started tonight s show with a question, what has happened to us? what has happened to the republican party? how did we get here, and we got here because leaders refused to stand up to this man. frankly cowardice and refusal to see who this man truly is has led the republican party to be where it is today. cole wist, thank you, happy new year to you. thank you, don take care. so breaking tonight, school canceled for hundreds of thousands of kids in chicago for the second day in a row, and the chicago s health commissioner has a bone to pick about that. she s next.
pandemic are we sacrificing kids to protect adults many of whom are choosing not to be vaccinated at this point? thanks for having me back on, don. that is absolutely right. we ve deprioritized kids at every step of this pandemic. we are coming up on two years of disrupted learning and there is a casualness around closing schools i just don t understand. the costs are severe and accumulating, well documented. everything from loss in reading and math gains for kids in school. your last caller said a hundred thousand kids missing from the school system last year. we see the immediate impact of school closures on the inability to detect child maltreatment. in new york city in the first three months of closures in 2020, 8,000 expected cases of child maltreatment were expected to come in. that didn t happen. extrapolating out to the country, 300,000 cases. we see millions of kids relying
defies our democracy and who is intent on propelling himself forward and sending the country back, unless the party is willing to tell donald trump enough, i m afraid that the gop is on the road for more losses of folks like me. you started tonight s show with a question, what has happened to us? what has happened to the republican party? how did we get here, and we got here because leaders refused to stand up to this man. frankly cowardice and refusal to see who this man truly is has led the republican party to be where it is today. cole wist, thank you, happy new year to you. thank you, don take care. school cancelled for hundreds of thousands of kids in chicago for the second day in a row, and the chicago s health commissioner has a bone to pick about that. she s next.