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> But you can't reasonably argue that "nothing bad happened and the tests are all bunk and also it was totally worth it."

What I am arguing elsewhere in the thread is probably more along these lines:

- Something bad happened due to a once-in-a-lifetime event. Education probably did suffer, quite badly due to this once-in-a-lifetime event.

- It is hard to definitively say that specific problems happened due to specific causes in the cause of such an event

- So, if you try to bolster your preconceived notions about public schools with poorly-controlled data like a 2% dip in some standardized test scores, I'm going to point that out. If you say stuff like "Well, the data points out...", you have to be able to defend the data.