ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: In new book, NPR reporter Anya Kamenetz takes a hard look at the lasting impacts from COVID-related school closures, as well as what needs to be done to ensure kids and families rebound.
. The interview below has been lightly edited for clarity.
Q: In your introduction, you write that you were thinking of this book as"a little like restorative justice or therapy." Why do you feel that approach was the best way to tell this story? A: Yeah, so I was down there as a young reporter. I went to high school in New Orleans as well, and what we found is that kids were out of school, usually for a few weeks. The public schools in the city shuttered, were closed for the fall semester of 2005 and mostly never reopened because they were all replaced with charter schools.
And that's exactly what we never did in this country. We obviously had red states that opened everything up with almost no precautions, and then we had blue states that allowed our bars and restaurants to be open while schools and day cares were shut. And that's the part that's so hard for me to understand, not only as a reporter, but as a parent.A: Fourteen percent of kids have disabilities. It's not some tiny margin.
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