[M T]

One life - let's say an 88 year old relative living with kids/grandkids - is not automatically "worth" more than the collective damage caused by hundreds of thousands of kids adrift in education for 1+ years.

Is that your sound bite?   
Let's memorialize that 88yo that someone who says that sound bite would choose to sacrifice for the education of hundreds of thousands of kids.  But I can't identify him/her in the list of 130,000+ (so far.... in 1/3 of a year)

[M T]

One life - let's say an 88 year old relative living with kids/grandkids - is not automatically "worth" more than the collective damage caused by hundreds of thousands of kids adrift in education for 1+ years.

Is that your sound bite?   
Let's memorialize that 88yo that someone who says that sound bite would choose to sacrifice for the education of hundreds of thousands of kids.  But I can't identify him/her in the list of 130,000+ (so far.... in 1/3 of a year)