The 'ghost children' of the pandemic
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Are You Anxious About Going Back to School?
Many children have fallen very, very far behind in their education during the pandemic. It's a differential effect, of course, because some of the private schools were very good at delivering on line lessons,. And children had pretty much a full time table. Some parents say they've just got out of the habit of going to school. Others, i think, are just very anxious, and this is what psychologists are saying, they've been made anxious by the pand epidemic. They're anxious about going back into school into large groups of people, in big secondary schools for instance. The poorest children were furthest behind anyway, and it's just that that gap will have got bigger. If we
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