Posted on 03/17/2025 6:28:18 AM PDT by RandFan
The poorest children are missing more school and falling further behind classmates, research shared with the BBC suggests.
According to new analysis by the Education Policy Institute (EPI) - which looked at pupil performance after the Covid-19 pandemic - children from the lowest income families are now up to 19 months behind peers by the time they are 16 years old.
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson told BBC Panorama Covid had led to a "serious and profound shift" in attitudes to attendance. She said lockdowns had cast "a long shadow" over the life chances of the youngest children.
The latest statistics for persistent absence show 15% of primary children in England have missed at least one in ten days of school this school year - up from about 8% before Covid.
It comes as the gap between the poorest students and other pupils had mainly narrowed before the pandemic, following years of effort by schools.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Never forget........
A full just over half of everyone was all in on the shutdown. But those people are looking back thinking about how bad it was without any personal remorse. They now blame others. They also believe it was bird flu that killed all the chickens.
Women and minorities hardest hit ……
This is no big deal. They can figure out which sex they want to be at home just as easy as they can in school.
The poorest schools are run by the dumbest of school systems.
Smart school systems know not to do this.
We’re going to see the repercussions of the CovidBS-19 scam for the rest of our natural lives - and then some!
Massive spikes in suicide attempts/successes and mental health issues
Uptick in drug overdoses and addictions
Economic devastation leading to more hungry people
Surge in Domestic Violence towards women and kids
https://fee.org/articles/4-life-threatening-unintended-consequences-of-the-lockdowns/
More, more, more:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11127-024-01216-7
And plenty more articles/studies behind paywalls...
Was this true before Covid?
The poor were most affected by the sudden relaxing of daily life routines.
It is hard to get many of the poor into the system of work, school, showing up everyday for life’s on time responsibilities, and when the system relaxed all that, the poor will be the most difficult to draw back into the structure of participatory routine.
It was true before COVID but the gap has grown bigger.
Since when are they worried about educating children
School choice, competition, vouchers, would cure this in just a couple of years.
You know what happens when a kid misses essentially all of school for their entire childhood?
NOTHING!!!
THE CHECKS KEEP COMING!!!…..
So long as Dad never stays around, and you keep popping out those welfare beneficiaries.
A poor kid and rich kid gets killed In a car accident. The poor kid death was was worse.
That’s the way it is in america.
Stop believing this nonsense.
The schools want you all to think children cannot learn without school.
And most of you have bought that lie.
If you never send your children to school, they still would learn reading, writing, and mathematics.
You don’t need a lot of money.
Then, you could put them in college courses at 15 or 16.
Many homeschoolers do this.
Don’t count on that. My state spent several years changing the system at least once a year making early college for homeschoolers almost impossible at the end.
Sorry to hear that. :-(
Thanks!
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