A central Illinois lawmaker says we are leaving our children behind educationally during COVID.

State Sen. Chapin Rose says kids are being left behind in the policy-making of COVID. He says the idea of sending kids who have not been in school for almost a year for one day a week of in-person learning is not an act of courage when we know COVID does not impact kids and schools are not spreaders of the disease either.

He calls it irreparable harm and believes when it comes time to test Illinois kids and compare them to students in other states, Illinois students will do worse.

He points to districts like Champaign, Decatur, and Springfield where parents are fighting for kids to be in school and school boards continue to say no, he calls it 'nuts' and 'insane'.