Did Covid-19 Precautions Destroy Education Worldwide?

Is there a way to end this plunge?

Time to start holding back children again who haven't learnt the material?

Or was remote learning worthless?

Those children that were denied an education during the Covid years, should be encouraged, extorted and or finally forced to go back and get at least an 8th grade education. That's just the way it is. Killing 3-6 every week-end in Chicago is not going to be enough.
Otherwise write these kids Ioff as a true lost generation.
I don't know how the "leaders" of the public school systems can look in the mirror.
In your statistics, remove the private, religious and charter schools and see how bad the numbers really are.