More than 75,000 children are being educated from home – almost a 40% increase from last year’s figure – with over 20,000 children having fallen off the school roll over the past year due largely to health concerns relating to Covid. MailOnline has the story.
An estimated 75,668 children and young people are being home educated across England, according to figures gathered on the first school census day of the 2020/21 academic year.
This represents an increase of some 38% from the year before – with parents citing “health concerns relating to Covid” as the main reason for keeping their children at home.
But it comes amid fears that vulnerable children are falling through the gaps.
The Chief Inspector of schools in England, Amanda Spielman, said the figures were “concerning”.
According to a report by The Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS), some 75,668 children and young people are being home educated across all 151 local authorities in England this year.
The ADCS estimates that a staggering 19,510 students were taken off the school roll in September alone.
The largest increase in the number of electively home educated children and young people from 2019 was among children aged 7-11 in Key Stage 2 (6,427) followed by some 4,750 in Key Stage 3 (aged 11-14).
The largest percentage increase since 2019 was in the early years (85%).
Internationally, the picture is even grimmer. A report by UNICEF published earlier this month found that 800 million children across the world are still not fully back in classes as schools remain closed or are only offering a mix of remote and in-person learning in at least 90 countries.
The MailOnline report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Fraser Nelson has written about the disappearance of tens of thousands of children from the school roll in his Telegraph column today.
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Clearly the word “whitewash” has now been replaced by “flawed research”.
Come off it. The BMJ know damn well these bits of research are not flawed. They are a concerted campaign of WHITEWASHING.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-new-front-in-the-attack-on-free-speech/
“Prentis’s intervention is a shocking overreach. It is not her job to tell reporters to stop reporting on issues where there is merely the “potential” for criminal proceedings.”
Victoria Prentis (who ate all the pies) Attorney General failing to understand the basics of English law. There is NO contempt of court if charges have not been made.
They really are rattled aren’t they? All this interest for a celebrity.
Exactly.
If Russell Brand is taken to court I believe a fair trial is now impossible. Perhaps, as I commented yesterday the aim will be to put him through the grinder for months all the way up to the point where a decision on taking him through the courts has to be made and then weaselling out of it. By then he will possibly have lost a lot of money and perhaps much physical and mental health.
Yes, that may well be the vague plan. I don’t know the man well but I think they may well have picked the wrong person to mess with – rather like Jordan Peterson he may be too big, too rich and too strong mentally to cancel. I hope so.
The process is the punishment
It may be unkind of me, but the incidence of ‘long covid’ seems to increase in line with the generosity of employer’s sick pay packages.(Very popular in the NHS apparently).
I spent all of summer 2020 with varying degrees of cold/ flu symptoms, mostly, a permanently runny nose and diarrhea. I’d also frequently run out of breath which would usually manifest itself as sharp flashes of pain in the teeth. This gradually subsided over autumn/ winter and never got bad that I had needed to stop working because of it. Nevertheless, it was (to me) a new phenomenon and certainly a hell of a nuisance.
Long before the Rona hysteria there was a medical condition colloquially known as “Sticky Back Syndrome”. It was most noticeable among the ranks of local and central government ’employees’.
Dr Pierre Kory has done a 2-parter substack on this, based on treating 900+ patients – an interesting read. First part linked.
https://pierrekorymedicalmusings.com/p/the-suffering-of-covid-19-vaccine?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Scott and I have now seen well over 900 patients who are chronically ill after receiving the Covid-19 mRNA injections or suffering with Long Haul Covid (a.k.a. PASC – post-acute sequelae of Covid). I would estimate the breakout of our patient population at this point is approximately 70% Post-vaccine syndrome (“Long Vax”) vs. 30% Long Covid syndrome…
Here is another worrying report:
https://www.cato.org/blog/nearly-third-gen-z-favors-home-government-surveillance-cameras-1
Now who wouldn’t want the government to put cameras in your home? Very “safe and effective.”
There is definitely a malaise or a syndrome and the causes are various but you won’t hear mention of any of the major rises in toxicity that we have been exposed to since 1989. RFK Jr and a few other people have talked about them as a concerted attack. The dual use bioweapon is just one of them. Probably the most evil act in the sense of introducing a pathogen into our existence forever. Once you start tampering with the fabric like that you pretty soon invite catastrophe upon yourself.
There is no herbal or supplement remedy to our times. It sounds limp but the only remedy is sitting down and doing nothing and concentraing or meditating on the moment. I don’t usually say this sort of thing but in our consciousness there is a moment where things have to happen The powers that be are trying to capitalise on the flux situation. We have lost the vitality of our sons it has been pointed in the direction of gloom. It is up to us to lift that. We could easily lift the young men up.
If Covid doesn’t exist then long Covid can’t exist.
Isn’t it possible that the symptoms of ‘Long Covid’ could be caused by the Covid jabs? Why isn’t every single person supposedly suffering from Long Covid asked if they’ve had the jabs (and how many). My husband and I, having had none of the jabs, don’t appear to have had Covid at all and certainly not Long Covid! The possibility of a relationship between Long Covid and the mRNA Covid jabs should definitely be investigated.
As has been asked many times before now, why did it ever need its own name? It’s post-viral illness, which has always existed. Although most people seemed to have no idea until the dreadful covid came along.