The youngest children have been most affected by lockdowns and school closures during the Covid pandemic, with new research finding that the educational progress and social development of four and five year-olds suffered severely during their first year at school. The Guardian has more.
Aggressive behaviour such as biting and hitting, feelings of struggling in class or being overwhelmed around large groups of children were among the difficulties reported by teachers during interviews.
Claudine Bowyer-Crane, of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research, said the findings were worrying: “Not only does it suggest that children who started reception in 2020 are struggling in the specific learning areas of literacy and maths but also that a smaller proportion of these children are achieving a good level of development.”
The research – published by the Education Endowment Foundation – found parents and teachers concerned that children in England were struggling with their emotional wellbeing as well as their ability to learn language and numeracy skills, after starting in reception classes after the earlier spring lockdown.
“For many children the experience of lockdown was made harder by cramped living conditions, no access to green spaces, parental mental health difficulties and financial hardship. On starting school, they had to contend with the disruption caused by COVID-19 restrictions only to then go back into another lockdown after just one term of schooling,” the researchers concluded.
Yet Boris Johnson has refused to rule out more lockdowns and the WHO is to tell states to prepare to do it all over again.
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The Grauniad – seriously??
Trying to climb down from their “lock em up long and hard” stance…..
Pathetic.
DS – you do yourself no favours quoting these monsters. As Pepe says – the Luganpresse Wurlitzer
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/05/they-are-getting-message_18.html
Lügenpresse… Yes, describes the situation perfectly.
And indeed, you can read all the field and combat manuals you like, but when the proverbial hits the fan, it’s basically all about the size of your balls and/or how stupid you are.
Most people who mouth terms such as “disinformation” and “controlled opposition” have absolutely no idea about how the system – using its media, its tame experts, and its entire machine of officials and gobbers – puts up idea A against idea B in order to convey or reinforce idea X underneath, and I am talking about an X which must not be challenged.
This relates directly to the topic of this thread.
Did we notice Ofsted or headteachers or even lowly schoolteachers criticising lockdowns publicly (I don’t care what they said among themselves) when the lockdowns were actually on? Why the f*** not? And there’s an answer to that question,
Should we trust them to “help the children” when the situation gets 10 or 100 times more difficult, when it’s time for standpipes and blackouts, there’s nothing in the shops, nothing in the petrol pumps, the automatic teller machines don’t work, and you might as well keep a bunch of £10000 notes to use as toilet paper because you can’t get old-style toilet rolls and the notes have no exchange value?
‘Did we notice Ofsted or headteachers or even lowly schoolteachers criticising lockdowns publicly (I don’t care what they said among themselves) when the lockdowns were actually on? Why the f*** not?’
Perhaps they were not asked?
Only ones that were sure to parrot the narrative would be interviewed don’t you think?
So that’s why all these PPE graduates who go straight into politics are making such a muck of things!
On the contrary, this site was entirely justified to quote the Guardian’s backtracking from lockdown.
Lugenpresse.
Always worth knowing your enemy (as in the sellouts at the Groan, who, not for the first time, find themselves on the wrong side of history).
Are there toilets for bears in the woods?
Obvious though all this may be, it still needs emphasizing in as many publications as possible so that hopefully those zealots still in the thrall of lockdown ideology will finally get that lockdown has no good outcomes at all – only bad ones. It would not need such a degree of hand-waving to bring attention to these harms had there not been visited upon us such a devious campaign of brainwashing that resulted in the mass-acceptance of lockdown. But there was, so it does!
Hooda Thunkit – new research discovers the bloomin obvious!
This is why I have no respect left whatsoever for our authorities and institutions.
Children being harmed is called child abuse and if done by a private individual is a crime.
But it is clearer than ever that the same crimes committed by public officials are not crimes. Their claim that they were acting in the public good and made a mistake or couldn’t have known is taken at face value.
The gravest threat facing our society by far is the persistent moral hazard under which public officials operate. It invites the constant creep of the state into our private lives because there is literally no cost, no price for when they get it wrong and cause harm.
It will only stop when these autocratic busybodies face consequences for their actions. So I’m afraid it will never stop but just get worse and worse.
Compounding their sins is the nauseating hypocrisy: all the sentimental words about children that have been uttered by people who clearly don’t think they are worth a moment of serious thought or consideration.
As previous posts have indicated, nobody is surprised by these terrible impacts. They were entirely predictable.
Your post reminded me of Robert Kennedy’s magnificent words on institutions: “This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay.”
Nobody is surprised?
We aren’t.
The zombies are.
You’re right – Nobody “here” is surprised.
The zombies are? Heaven help us!
Zombies avoid/reject information like this as it would cause cognitive dissonance.
Perhaps a little fatalistic, but you’re mostly right. The mass-media has been pretending up until now that the worst crime to be committed by our political class is partying / drinking beer / having curries / having a quick snog in a corridor, petty stuff like that, distraction. But now more of the media (such as the Guardian in their above article) are gradually opening their eyes to the real crimes that have been inflicted on the population (they just haven’t been typical of the sort of juicy scandal like Hancock’s “snog-gate” that tends to make attention-grabbing headlines)
Well, as the Guardian, together with most other media, advocated lockdowns, they share entirely in the crime and their staff should be held to account too.
The Guardian’s editorial policy is still that the virus is a deadly pathogen, and everything that was done was necessary. Read articles by John Crace, Marina Hyde, George Monbiot. The underlying tenor is always that SARS-Cov-2 is deadly and all the stupid, useless, harmful measures that were used have saved us from complete disaster.
They haven’t changed at all. There are subtle hints dropped all through their articles.
Lockdown, among other things, is domestic abuse as government policy.
These villains refused to do a proper cost-benefit analysis (lrt alone adhere to the Birkenhead Drill). I wonder why…
‘Aggressive behaviour such as biting and hitting’
This is my default position when I encounter Covidians
It would appear that I also have been damaged during the mass detentions
The same Guardian, that like my wife, wanted it longer, and harder.
Amazing how many Covidians are now changing their tune. They wanted lockdowns and wfh and now are surprised at the toilet that is the economy. (W)anchors.
‘The same Guardian, that like my wife, wanted it longer, and harder.’
I was going to make a rude joke but I restrained myself.
You’re too late, be quicker next time.
anyone know much about the new “monkeypox” narrative that’s being pushed around?
From what I can gather it is some African disease being spread by homosexuals in London, 98% of MPs are demanding blood tests as we speak.
Ah the Guardian. Another link to pop into my bookmark folder “Bedwetters in Retreat”.
If it saved just one week of a 99 year old bedridden already dying person it was well worth it.
Another thing: an “expert”-pushed “lockdowns hurt children” line will be used next time there’s a crackdown (which may well be before the end of this year) to justify a mass kidnapping of children by the state.
Wait and see.
And Ofsted officials and schoolteachers will punch the air with the joy of self-importance.
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In our local infants school they have put the urinal out of action in one of the boys toilets because there is a girl that identifies as a boy and she wants to use the boys toilets.
If this girl is a boy surely the child will be perfectly at ease seeing other boys todgers, thinking about it perhaps they are worried she might try and piss in the urinal and will spray urine everywhere?
I want to ask the head teacher to install a toilet on the ceiling I will explain that my seven year old identifies as spiderman and would like to take his shits on the ceiling.
A world full of toddlers that have never known sanity.
Heck.
Yet Boris Johnson has refused to rule out more lockdowns and the WHO is to tell states to prepare to do it all over again.
EVIL SCUM!!!
(Am I being too harsh?).
If you think the ongoing covid narrative has been hard on adults, who have developed brains, just think how very disturbing it has been for children. Do not think the globalists who have instigated covid, food shortages, money manipulation, fuel shortages, truck driver shortages that magically disappeared, shut down small businesses, locked people in their homes, made people work from home and shut schools cares one iota for your children. That is one big fallacy. Wake up people. The future of your children is being undermined. If you are concerned about this, get off your backside and find out how you can help. Start by writing to your MP about any covid issue that is affecting you and your family in a negative way. Start using cash, less credit card use. Buy local. Get your fresh air, sunshine and a walk in each day. Get the kids out to play sport, for a walk in the woods, river banks forests. Goslings, cygnets, ducklings waiting to be discovered by little ones. Be positive, but please DO SOMETHING.
It would appear that a large section of the adult population do not have developed brains
Aren’t the parents to blame for this for not spending time with their children, playing with them and teaching them?
Who is the best educator for your children – you or the state?
Yes parents of course. However the structure and timetable of school and wider community interaction and normal life, is part of a little ones positive life and development. This was without a crucial due process of a risk assessment and supported scrutinised evidence.
I work in a school sorry said this before. Children who arrive at high school have had disrupted lives too in addition to four year olds. During times at home some/lots of children were unsupervised as parents were working from home or just struggling in what ever way. This generation of children became addicted to the computer screen/iPad screen/tv screen and whilst unsupervised have had their cognition habits trained to choose screen to deal with all emotions, a shut down stop button. This does not bode well . I could cite many other disgraceful evidential assaults on our children due to totalitarian lockdown policies but I feel the company I am keeping on this forum know only too well the crimes that our morally bankrupt parliament needs to answer for and the rest.
I am so disappointed in people for not saying anything, I did. Not easy.
Our birth-rate is now so low that the play and interaction children used to have two generations ago with their siblings is largely absent from modern life. I am the eldest of five, my mother’s best friend had seven. Everything we had was shared or passed down,we squabbled, fought, made up – we socialised ourselves, quite independently from school. A lockdown back then would have had far less of an impact on children than today.