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Children Are Struggling With the Basics Because of Lockdowns, Says Ofsted Report

by Will Jones
10 April 2022 11:19 PM

A recent report by Ofsted on the impact of lockdown on children suggests children came back after months in isolation more anxious about socialising, more attached to technology and behind on the most basic educational and life skills. Michael Curzon in the Express has more.

The report found children are struggling more than ever to carry out the most basic tasks. It said: “More children needed help putting on their coat and blowing their nose… An increasing number of providers were concerned that fewer children have learned to use the toilet independently.”

Ofsted suggested because of these deficiencies, more children may not be ready for school by the age of four.

It raised further concerns over obesity and dental health.

A teacher trainer working in a north London primary school told Express.co.uk she had noticed similar traits among her pupils. She said: “In Year Five [ages nine to 10] so many children don’t know how to tie their laces. It’s always worth remembering their last full year of school was Year Two [when they were aged six to seven]. Everything is impacted.”

Citing another example of a basic, important skill lacked by many of her pupils, the teacher trainer added: “They don’t know how to tell the time as it’s always taught towards the end of terms two, so the last time they were taught it in person [at school] was Year Two.”

She added home teaching, which often took place over Zoom, was not sufficient for teaching such skills because “the only way you can learn time is by physically practising making times on a clock in front of you”.

Yet Boris won’t rule out imposing lockdown again.

Worth reading in full.

You can listen to Michael discussing the Ofsted report on the latest Bournbrook podcast, “A Generation Sacrificed to Lockdown”.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Schools are employing ‘professional nappy changers’.
For four-year-olds.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

I haven’t yet read this but I am guessing we have a ‘no shit Sherlock’ situation here.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yep, it is a “no shit Sherlock.”

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AngusAttitude
AngusAttitude
3 years ago

The school closures which we wanted so we could ‘work’ from home have now caused us to ‘need’ more money. Children come first after all.

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Star
Star
3 years ago

That photograph is like something from Pol Pot’s Kampuchea.

But don’t listen to anything Ofsted say. They hate parents and therefore have no understanding of children’s education or raising generally. I mean imagine thinking that parents can’t and don’t teach their children how to blow their noses, tie their shoelaces, tell the time, brush their teeth, or go to the toilet, and that confinement for several hours a day outside of their families, in institutions with other inmates of almost exactly the same age, being conditioned by stupid idiots who are only there for the money – and who whinge all the time to an extent that most people who don’t share their occupation can only tolerate their company in very small doses, if at all – is what’s needed for them to learn how.

If only mobile phone networks and the internet had been unavailable during lockdown, hey, we might have been getting somewhere.

Last edited 3 years ago by Star
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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

The majority of the population have no idea of the depravity of people like Gates, Schwab, Soros, Charlie boy, Carney, the Pope and the rest. All that matters is the Reset. Until the mass die-off the numpties won’t take any notice.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

A family member in her early 40s was rushed to hospital this weekend with a massive blood clot; very serious. That makes three relatively young women in my circle who’ve had serious DVTs. We’re not imagining it are we?

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

No, we are not. I wish we were. One of my injured cousins is now angry about the lies he was told and that he believed; another, coerced into taking the jabs to keep his job and uninjured so far (so far as he knows), says he can’t think about it – but I know he does.

The misery inflicted during the lockdowns – the sacrifice of children, the loss of joy for people everywhere – has been followed by a new mass anxiety. Who will we lose?

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Wilco148
Wilco148
3 years ago
Reply to  Alter Ego

Same people taken in by covid scamdemic are being taken in by Russia bad, Ukraine the victim narrative

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

The contraceptive pill increases the risk of DVT, which probably hasn’t been factored in by the pharmaceutical companies.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

They can’t believe it. Why would anyone do anything so terrible to them?

I thought I was wide awake to the awfulness of those who rate themselves as superior beings and the rest of humanity as expendable.

But I absolutely did not want to believe in notions of a Reset. It was too obscene, too disgusting. I was led to it, very reluctantly, by the sheer weight of evidence – and because bumbling incompetence just didn’t explain everything.

I will be very relieved if someone can demonstrate that it’s all just “conspiracy theory” hyperbole.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The numpties will find other reasons for the ‘die-off’ when it begins.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

Ha ha! I’m one of the stupid idiots you refer to and even so I don’t disagree; but there are a tiny number of us who represent a fifth column of conscious teachers. Not many admittedly!

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mojo
mojo
3 years ago
Reply to  Star

It goes back much further to policies and brainwashing of young women that they can achieve far more working for someone than getting married and raising a family. The State has insidiously taken control of our lives and broken the confidence we have in ourselves.

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Mezzo18
Mezzo18
3 years ago
Reply to  mojo

No it doesn’t. The children who cannot blow their noses or tie their shoelaces come from homes where no one works. The brainwashing is the silly, middle class leftist social workers who believe that every woman, even those who are barely sentient and grossly obese, has the right to have children and be kept by the state. Working mothers, who do so to provide for their children and who also spend time playing and reading with them, are keeping those useless people.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago

I am trapped between thinking

“There’s nothing more to say, no-one is listening anyway,”

and

“GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, WE MUST KEEP SCREAMING FROM THE ROOFTOPS ABOUT ALL THIS UNTIL THEY ARE ALL IN PRISON!”

I can’t take it any more.

And they’re still offering untested mRNA gene therapy to kids, to “protect others”…

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Nymeria
Nymeria
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

I’ve been wrestling with it too. But tonight, my youngest has had an epiphany and declared herself properly awake to what’s going on. This is momentous for me.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

Hurrah for your youngest!

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

Wicked! A new recruit to the cause! Welcome Nymeria Jr!

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

I’m very glad – what a wonderful relief!

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago
Reply to  Nymeria

Great to hear!

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

In the same. But I still think screaming about it is what’s needed. The perps are getting away with it.

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Wilco148
Wilco148
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

And as the Pfizer papers reveal, untested on pregnant women..
the birth figures are going to give the game away if someonebiabbothered to look.. The vaccine has been about creating sterile or aborting women.
They want your funds, fertility and freedom

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

60 kids under the age of ten now have hepatitis. All jabbed. Ten kids in Scotland the same.

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John
John
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

You need to be aware that a Kinder chocolate factory in Europe was forced to close because of a salmonella outbreak.
Salmonella can cause hepatitis type symptoms.

This possibility has been ruled out in the Scottish outbreak according to public health Scotland in an email to myself when I queried whether there was a possible connection with the Kinder problem.

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Banjones
Banjones
3 years ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

It’s the word ”offering” when speaking of threatening the young with this poison that’s so utterly abhorrent.

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crisisgarden
crisisgarden
3 years ago

I can’t really speak to the effects on younger children (although I’m not at all surprised) but I can see some damage amongst teenagers. There’s a nihilism that I’ve not seen before in about 15 years of teaching, lots of kids thinking what’s the point? Who can blame them; society has just told them emphatically that their education doesn’t really matter so why bother? It’s been very challenging trying to pull them out of the morass (especially when you privately also don’t think there’s much of a point!)

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  crisisgarden

And we know that nihilism at that age puts them at terrible risk.

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Wilco148
Wilco148
3 years ago

I’m putting the blame firmly at the feet of the Government and their toadying to teacher’s unions

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mojo
mojo
3 years ago

Surely this is down to parents not able to parent anymore because their children are now under state supervision from a very young age. This means yet again the State has destroyed lives instead of supporting families. Every single policy over the last 50 years has been unfriendly to families and heterosexual marriage.
Brainwashing mothers into giving control of their children to the State/strangers has been tne worst policy of all.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

Entirely predictable, and indeed was predicted by those who weren’t desperate to lock us up in our homes for months on end.

However, there is no excuse for not teaching your own child to tell the time. Even IF you don’t have a clock face, you can draw them. That’s how my father taught me in the early ’60s.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago

Well, Johnson might not rule out lockdown but I, for one, will not be going along with it. I’ve had enough of this nonsense and so should every right thinking individual. If you’re healthy and symptom-free, then claim your freedom as your god-given right – not a right given by the Medical Junta. And I’m not wearing their stupid masks either. It’s time to stop with all this. We are damaging our children through all this hysteria. Time to say NO. The Stand in the Park phenomenon has been crucial in all of this. We have to stand up for our rights because there are precious few who will.

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AngloWelshDragon
AngloWelshDragon
3 years ago

One does wonder what parents have been doing to help their children. If their kids are not in school or nursery presumably they are with their parents or family carers who presumably aren’t wearing masks in their own homes. The only reason children aren’t learning to speak or interpret facial expressions must be because their parents don’t bother to interact with them. Having relied on nurseries and schools they just dump their offspring in front of the tv. Many parents seem to have never learned the most rudimentary skills of parenting. My mum always said the biggest problem was the change from prams where the baby faces the mother to buggies where the child has its back to its parent. There is something very very wrong with the way we raise children in the west. Covid has brought it into the light but is not the root cause of the problem. Friends I know who work in primary schools have complained for 20 years of children who aren’t toilet trained, can’t use cutlery, are aggressive and bad mannered. The best thing a parent can do for a baby or child is to talk to it constantly.

Last edited 3 years ago by AngloWelshDragon
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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
3 years ago
Reply to  AngloWelshDragon

That’s a very interesting point about prams and buggies and makes absolute sense. I think prams need a makeover to bring them up to date.

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cynarch
cynarch
3 years ago

I find it interesting that these days children haven’t leatnt to tie their shoe laces before year 2. When my son was in nursery school they ensured that the children aged 4 were able to tie their laces before moving onto school (back in the days -1989 – when children started school aged 5). And surely learning to blow your nose, put on a coat and use the toilet independently is something your parents are responsible for. There are a lot of things schools can be blamed for but these are not some of them and the sooner schools insist children can do these things before starting school, the better it will be for all concerned. Parents are entirely to blame for the inadequacy of their children in such social skills.

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Victoria
Victoria
3 years ago
Reply to  cynarch

Most shoes for 4 year olds are with velcro and not laces

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Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
3 years ago

Why is no one asking if children’s liver damage is linked to the vaccine?
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/why-is-no-one-asking-if-childrens-liver-damage-is-linked-to-the-vaccine%ef%bf%bc/
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Banjones
3 years ago

So Johnson ”won’t rule out imposing lockdown again”. Then it’s about time he had a rethink about the fact that he is a public servant. Why is anyone even speaking of this posturing oik as though he’s an all-powerful dictator?

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David Beaton
David Beaton
3 years ago

Of course they are!

Isn’t that in the “Dumbing Down” part of the plan?

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