In response to such criticisms, the city's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, and the schools chancellor, Joel I. Klein, said on Friday that deciding to close a school "balances a definite harm — lost education, parental wages, school nutrition programs and possible unsupervised children — with a possible benefit".
While the vocational training they receive cannot replace their lost education, it is a way out of the mines.
Homes are lost, education disrupted, and there is a likely possibility of psychological trauma that will haunt their young lives for months and years to come.
"Investing in early intervention is crucial - not doing so comes at a high price for those battling a mental health condition, and also costs the economy vast sums of money in lost education, training, jobs, and often, through crime".
It is generally believed that the cost of school "unreadiness" to society itself is great, not only in lost education and productivity costs, but also in increased remediation and compensatory services and public safety costs (Wertheimer & Croan, 2003).
But food on the table will not repair the long-lasting damage that violence, exploitation and lost education will have wrought on the lives of so many children.
Again children pay the price in lost education.
The risks include violence, HIV infection, lost education and lost opportunity.
Other organizations such as the International Organization for Migration estimates that developing countries incur some $500 million in lost education costs due to HCWs emigrating to other countries (1, 9).
The economic burdens of high health costs, lost education and lower productivity due to illness cost each affected nation billions of dollars every year.
