As a family of army and then embassy brats, my sibs and I were constantly shifting schools, losing months and at times full year of school. I am unconvinced about ‘learning loss’ as anything beyond an anxiety creating tool for parents https://twitter.com/rwidome/status/1380287658195226630

Funny because mum had been saying this since last year to relatives, friends with school age kids.

She keeps telling them it’s an opportunity for kids to grow without the pressures of school

The biggest issue is socialisation which provides an array of social, interpersonal, intellectual, emotional and psychological skills. It isn’t school work

There is an opportunity for us to grow out of the toxic structure of schooling implemented in too many societies and instead really reinvent how we think of schools, child development and future humans.

Instead we are being pushed to mass anxiety and reopening too soon