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Anya Kamenetz: The Stolen Year (EBook, 2022, PublicAffairs)

An NPR education reporter writes about how the COVID pandemic disrupted children's lives.

So much of what she writes can be easily broken down if you know even a glimmer of US history with regards to: child labour laws, the introduction of birth certificates, and the introduction of compulsory schooling. She wants to make some kind of point without any of that contextualisation, which is ludicrous.

This woman writes as if she believes that she's the modern day Mother Jones, which is pretty funny. Also, this book is so sparse on info in a lot of places that I haven't stopped feeling like it was a "make a quick buck on the pandemic topic" book.

@idzie@kolektiva.social It's SO FUCKING BAD, isn't it?! Like, the first thought I had was "Did you look up anything else that's been stolen? And the implications of that?" Because I had in mind the numerous "stolen generations," which were ironically people shunted into schools designed explicitly to colonise them (to put it shortly and without nuance).

But this book is so bad so far. And I've also been looking at NPR pieces that she mentions writing, and they're even... worse? Yeah, worse.