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A new documentary tells the truth about school closures during the pandemic, and it should anger you. Fifteen days is a story of how teachers unions teamed up with progressive NGOs to use the health crisis to reimagine society using our families, our children, as guinea pigs. It's called fifteen days. It comes from Restore Childhood. Natalia Morocver is the founder of Restore Childhood, and she joins us today to discuss it.
So thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Natalie, for having me.
Speaker 0: Now the documentary is really upsetting, and I think it's because a lot of us have kind of blocked it, what we've gone through and what people put on our children. Why do you think it is important to bring this back up now?
Speaker 1: Well, I think that what they did with the school closures has not really ended. I don't think the schools that our children left in 2020 were the ones they returned to, and in fact, many kids didn't return. There's still incredible chronic absenteeism. The teachers' unions always kind of wring their hands and say, well, we don't know where the kids go, but actually, we drove them out. Additionally, there hasn't really been any kind of accountability.
Randy Weingarten is still orchestrating. She's written a new book. She is not taking any responsibility for what happened. Her motto is kids are resilient, but actually, our documentary is dedicated to a young man who took his life just this past May because he struggled so much with mental health issues when school shut down. He's not the only one.
Speaker 0: Right. I think about what really hits me is all the things that kids didn't have. You you there's a joke in isn't it a joke in pretty in pink that if you miss your prom, your whole life will be ruined? Like, these are things we cannot give these kids back. That's there's no resilience to taking things from these children.
So you make it clear in the documentary that, you know, there were a lot of sort of militant teachers just and and organizers and administrators just going along with what they thought was right. But there has to be a bad guy behind the bad guy orchestrating this or else independent thinkers would not have done this.