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Obviously this is from an educational standpoint but I’m fascinated at how the narrative about what kids & young people have lost over the year is focused only on learning and not on relationships with friends & family, play, social experiences, physical activity etc. https://twitter.com/inverclydeeis/status/1360521566770126856
I’m fed up with paternalistic “what’s best for children is x, y or z” declarations. Has anyone asked kids what they think? Asked them what has been hard for them over the last year? Because for mine, it’s not being able to see their cousins, grandparents, aunts & uncles and pals.
If you pressed them, it would still be social & relationships-based. Not being able to go to the park, or the cinema. Missing the Xmas panto for the first time in their lives. Not being able to get the train into town by themselves, the lads cycling trip to Loch Lomond cancelled.
Not getting to hug their Gran and Grampa - seeing their paternal grandparents TWICE in a whole year. Not being allowed to stay at Nana and Papa’s, practicing their cooking.
They’d say they miss school too, but that’s as much about their relationships as it is about the learning.
They’d say they miss school too, but that’s as much about their relationships as it is about the learning.
And most of their extracurricular stuff cancelled too - I am hugely concerned about the impact of this year on physical wellbeing, but also on kids who were at the top of their game in their chosen sport and who are likely to have missed substantial periods of coaching & practice
