- You hear references to the lost year.

The Commissioner of Education here in Mass says he believes we've failed a generation of students in the Commonwealth and around the country.

Those are pretty heavy words.

Do you agree with that?

- No, I absolutely disagree.

I think there's a lot, I stated before to Ms. Quinn that I believe the students have won the pandemic.

I think there are so many issues in society that students were able to find their way into the conversation and to actually be heard in the conversation.

Yes, they didn't get standardized testing that they usually get.

If they're referring to that, that's actually very farfetched, but students were able to learn how to navigate, adult problems became more relatable to them, they've used technology to really leverage and build on capacity, they've built a resistance level that adults can't even mimic.

So, I think there are many positives coming as our students escape the pandemic.

So, nothing is lost.

Whenever there's student growth, there's nothing to lose.

And I think if they're talking about loss, it will probably be from district sort of like Eurocentric mindsets, but no, I think students will escape this thing stronger than ever.

Nothing was lost.