DS is in yr1. How will he ever get a decent education with schools having to close so much? There's only so much teachers can transfer online as a moment's notice. What happens when these kids get to secondary school and they've missed essentially years of education? I'm so worried they won't academically be anywhere near where they should be at 11 unless the parents can pay for additional tutoring. And then what about the babies, who aren't even 1? How will they even learn the basics when they're in and out of school from one month to the next? Will we just adjust our standards? Will formal education to extended? Or will the gap just widen and it be accepted that more and more kids will leave school barely literate and numerate because they didn't years of education at home whilst parents worked or otherwise inadequately supported their home learning?
And most of them will never get to do all the normal kid stuff. The school trips, holidays, big family parties. No meet ups with 20 cousins or whole class parties.
I feel so sick thinking about the life our kids are going to get and yes I know it's better than them or their parents etc being dead. We shielded DS all summer long. But what sort of adults will we create, not being allowed to touch other people being parents and siblings, not doing all the stuff that cements friendships, not getting a consistent education