The study’s lead author, University of Bath psychotherapist Caroline Hickman, said by email: “We didn't know how scared they were. We knew children's lives were affected on a daily basis but we didn't know how much this was affecting their eating, sleeping, playing. We knew this anxiety was affecting childrens’ thinking and cognition. What we did not know was how this correlated with beliefs about government action or inaction. We now know two-thirds of children believe governments are lying, failing and betraying them and future generations.”
THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT #2 — SCHOOL LOCKDOWNS MAY LEAD TO NEAR TOTAL LEARNING LOSS: I’m not a parent, so I can’t talk to you first-hand about what it was like to have kids stuck at home during Covid lockdowns. But any suspicions you have that digital-only learning failed your kids will be fueled by a new Dutch study of the learning outcomes of 350,000 students in 2020. It concludes that in some cases students effectively learn nothing during lockdown periods . The effects are, of course, worse for students from poorer backgrounds.
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