Up to 100,000 children missing from school rolls

[TheDailyCarbunkle]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-60054253

If anyone has any doubt about the risk created by lockdowns, doubt no more. Many of those children will be absolutely fine, well cared for, educated at home. But many many of them will not - without regular attendance at school and someone outside their family monitoring them daily, they will have just fallen through the cracks. Who knows what the final fallout of this will be?

Yes children lost about two terms plus the odd two weeks period but many of these 100,000 kids have lost years of education. My ds is one of them. SEN provision is national scandal and heed dirted. Can't imagine Dzme Rachel working on that since her Academy Trust was accused of off rolling SEN kids.

Needs sorting
Dame Rachel

@Sunnyd71

Yes children lost about two terms plus the odd two weeks period but many of these 100,000 kids have lost years of education. My ds is one of them. SEN provision is national scandal and heed dirted. Can't imagine Dzme Rachel working on that since her Academy Trust was accused of off rolling SEN kids.

My DC with SEN got fuck all too. Predictably enough.

@VikingOnTheFridge

Yeah, it is.

You're certainly right that the poor in the rich world were most likely to bear the brunt of restrictions. That's an undeniably correct point, and one that hasn't had nearly the airtime it should've over the course of the pandemic. The suffering caused by lockdown was not distributed evenly and we were never all in the same boat.

It does not, however, affect the fact that it's plain wrong to claim nearly all the world was asked to stay at home for months. That just assumes everywhere is like the West. Additionally, there are many large cities with millions of people in poorer countries.

Lockdowns weren't a Western invention!

Asian and African countries were far more proactive, given their experiences of SARS and Ebola.

I didn't say lockdowns were a Western invention.

What you describe here though, populations being asked to stay at home for months (this differs quite significantly from what China did, as an example) were a primarily Western phenomenon though. They just were. And you really shouldn't erase the experience of some of the poorest countries, which is what you did when you made your most of the world claim.

Don't be so utterly ridiculous.

@Twitterwhooooo

Don't be so utterly ridiculous.

You're the one who's for some reason taken an issue with objective fact being pointed out. Why it's so important to you to have the claim that much of the world was asked to stay at home for months go uncorrected is mystifying.

This UNESCO map of the timeline of school closures globally is interesting. en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse#durationschoolclosures

Currently there are 7 countries with completely closed schools due to Covid. Back in April 2020, 74% of kids globally were affected by school closures.