Schools remain closed or are only offering a mix of remote and in-person learning in at least 90 countries, according to UNICEF. This means that 800 million children across the world are still not fully back in classes, highlighting the need to reflect upon the educational costs of lockdowns. The Guardian has the story.
Across the world 800 million children are still not fully back in school, UNICEF is warning, with many at risk of never returning to the classroom the longer closures go on. There are at least 90 countries where schools are either closed or offering a mix of remote and in-person learning.
The UN agency’s chief of education, Robert Jenkins, told the Guardian that the closures are part of “unimaginable” disruption to children’s education.
“I didn’t imagine the scale of the closures when schools shut last year, and I didn’t imagine it going on for so long. In all our scenario planning for disruption, this possibility was never raised,” he says.
“At the peak of the pandemic 1.6 billion children were not in school and here we are, a year later, and 800 million are still suffering partially or fully disrupted education.
“There are a lot of lessons that need to be drawn, and one is the impact that prolonged school closures have on children.”
In Britain, the number of primary school leavers struggling with literacy has risen by 30,000 over the past year of lockdowns. The scale of the decline in basic reading skills is such that the Prime Minister is devising an “emergency” plan to boost educational support. But the picture in some other parts of the world is even bleaker, with children being forced into work or being married off.
A new Covid Global Education Recovery Tracker from UNICEF, the World Bank and Johns Hopkins University is monitoring closures across the world, analysing where children are learning at home or at school.
Humanitarian organisations say the closures have contributed to a range of increasing abuses and degradation of children’s rights across the world, from increasing use of child labour to a rise in child marriages, often in communities were children already struggled to access education. …
A Save the Children report out this week warns that in Lebanon children are being put into work by parents desperate for money. The charity fears many of the children will never return to school. Jennifer Moorehead, the charity’s Lebanon director, said: “We are already witnessing the tragic impact of this situation, with children working in supermarkets or in farms, and girls forced to get married.”
In Uganda, schools have been closed since March 2020, putting 15 million pupils out of education. Only certain classes with exams coming up have been allowed to return. The rest will return in a staggered way in the coming months, though thousands of girls will not, having become pregnant or been married off in the intervening period.
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The dictators are child abusers. Who knew?
Yes quite.
and it would seem to be a prerequisite for any important job these days.
I think it’s all been said – the treatment of children has been despicable, given facts that are beyond contention. Coupled with the treatment of care home residents, we are in indisputable sociopath territory with those responsible for the advice or the policies.
Our grandchildren have suffered less than many, given their particular circumstances and the family willingness to give government nonsense the finger. But the deprivation, not of ‘education’, but of a normal social life for a prolonged period and at a critical age has clearly been child abuse that no civilized society should even contemplate. The effect has been noticeable, although a return to relative normality in a school not run by morons has begun to redress the balance
I feel this is a strong indicator the full depop agenda is in play.
Yes, well, it must be awfully galling to be Bill Gates and have all those plebs around the place getting in the way of one’s enjoyment. Much better to place a time-bomb in their ‘vaccinations’ – et, voila, one year or so from now and the world should be much less crowded!
I think I need a lie down
Professor Neil Ferguson comes out as an anti-vaxxer
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/professor-neil-fergusons-warning-young-20322953
I feel I am suffering from a delusional break reading your comment but nothing would surprise me anymore! Who writes the scripts for this production?
for some reason Ferguson thinks risk/benefit is an appropriate thing to do for vaccines but not lockdowns
Yes and yet again we have the nonsense. Presumably Ferguson was unable to ‘fix’ a computer modelling scenario to reflect his suppostion? The man is beyond a disgrace. (That’s me being polite)
Remind me which particular vaxx outfits Ferguson has shares in ?
It’s the research funding base at Imperial that is the issue.
Is this a case of Ferguson taking a stance to cover his arse for when this shit-show comes to an end (wishful thinking?). It will not however protect him from his initial forcast of 500,000 deaths unless the country locked down and from which many other countries followed suit.
Note the ridiculous comment by Robert Jenkins UN chief of ‘education” quote “There are a lot of lessons that need to be drawn, and one is the impact that prolonged school closures have on children.” Is this man a complete cretin? Does he believe he is being inciteful, compassionate or as with most overpaid bureaucrats talking because he can? What does ‘DRAWN’ mean in the context of this nonsense statement? and it would be plain to the stupidest that there would be a massive negative impact of prolonged school closures for numerous reasons. Bureaucrats & politicians really do not care and if they did the schools would never have been closed. Not long into the ‘plandemic’ it was obvious that children were not massively infected or affected by Covid, and longer term studies showed that the children are NOT mass vectors of infection, yet with the hubris and misguided zealot approach to Covid they just pushed on and on with the draconian, totalitarian and crass policies. Robert Jenkins has no doubt pretended to work from home for the duration and feels that he can be seen to be caring by talking crap now. Another charlatan to add to the list.… Read more »
“Scientists say it’s morally complicated to jab children because they have almost zero risk of dying or falling seriously ill from the disease, and would only be vaccinated to protect older people. It is still unknown, however, how long Covid may affect them.
Leaked Government plans last month suggested ministers wanted to start getting jabs to millions of under-18s by August to try to achieve herd immunity — when the virus can’t spread because so many people are protected.”
article worth a read
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9436787/AstraZenecas-Covid-vaccine-not-suitable-young-people-Prof-Lockdown-says.html
Regardless of change of definiton by the Bill Gates controlled WHO, being vaccinated does NOT equate to herd immunity. I am a firm believer that young people should not be vaccinated against Covid, but confess to not believing Prof Lockdown in any regards. What is his angle on this one?
I think rushing out a vaccine is ok if used to treat the hyper-vulnerable. For widespread use it is unforgiveable. I feel the ‘powers that be’ NHS, PHE etc have ‘had a bad war’ and are putting all their trust in the vaccine to ‘save the day’.
As for Ferguson – apart from being a clown and scientific fraud – he is still human – and maybe he thinks giving an emergency untested vaccine to kids is a bad idea. I expect he has kids of his own and his paternal instincts may be overriding his otherwise hysteria. Maybe his wife/lover or whatever isn’t giving him any unless he comes out against it.
“I think rushing out a vaccine is ok if used to treat the hyper-vulnerable.”
Steve – do stop repeating government propaganda in this way. AS one of the vulnerable, I don’t want to read that sort of shite here – the BBC can do it without assistance.
The reservations about the leaky experimental vaccines apply across the board. Even on a fingers-crossed assessment, they do nothing that Ivermectin wouldn’t do more safely. The vulnerable will just die earlier, anyway – so will never exhibit longer term side effects.
I agree with some of what you say, but the man has shown that he never speaks or acts unless it is to his own advantage. It is a bit late for him to gain a conscience or is he just trying to undertake some sort of damage control to protect his ‘personal reputation’?
BBC lying that Sweden is in a new wave
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/
https://scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/befolkning/befolkningens-sammansattning/befolkningsstatistik/pong/tabell-och-diagram/preliminar-statistik-over-doda/
Hmm, the BBC are lying – isn’t that tautology?!
In their planned system education won’t matter. Drones are more compliant if they are ignorant. There will be a Universal Basic Income but no jobs. As long as they can turn on screen and sit slack jawed in front of ‘First Date Shag in Essex While Baking a Cake (on ice) that’s the only skill they will ever need. Any more knowledge will be deemed subversive.
Anyone not up to speed with the education agenda and the big plans for remote learning , human capital markets etc etc etc , really should spend some time with Alison McDowell over at wrenchinthegears , also many video sites and on multiple other blogs.
The people in charge are determined to reshape our world . The children and young adults are their focus this is why the dislocation from National history and social norms have been under attack in recent years.
The next generation will be completely dislocated from their past and completely at the mercy of the all providing elites.
How any of the supposed caring bodies mentioned in this article are content for the forced isolation of the children is completely reprehensible, and no one breaks ranks for fear of losing their soft NGO job and hefty pay check. Where is the morality in any of these organisations .