By February 2021, about 90 percent of private schools serving elementary or middle schoolers offered in-person instruction
This statistic suggest that there is a high number of schools doing in person learning. Though it is believable, The article doesn’t say where the stat is from. This helps to support the conclusion
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I figure that most of the learning students lost in Zoom school is learning they would have lost by early adulthood even if schools had remained open.
Here we have a correlation between zoom school and the feeling of missing out on the school experience. Is this true? Well he states "I figure" so this doesn't typically mean there is evidence backing up the claim and there also is no article linked to this part of the essay. One way to do this is to survey children in Zoom school and collect data from the numbers.
I have deep doubts about the intellectual and social value of schooling.
This is a very weak way to begin the essay because it always for there to be some belief bias right from the beginning instead of representing the facts first.