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nything related to the pandemic can make for grim reading. Sifting for positives feels not just hopeless, but even trite. When it comes to education, however, the news – if not of the three-cheers, primary- colours variety – isn’t an unmitigated black, either. Yes, schools have been closed and face-to-face adult education largely shut down. But, despite this, the sense of community that’s sprung up to try and make lockdown learning as positive as it can possibly be has been extraordinary. The message for battle-weary parents, whether grappling with tearful toddlers or disenchanted teens (you can lead a child to textbooks, but you can’t make them think), has increasingly been one of reassurance, in our region and the country as a whole. It may not impact the day-to-day drudge, but when even a polymath like Professor A
Brian Cox is telling the nation that he, too, is struggling to home educate his children, parents can at least feel that they’re in good company, since even the exalted are experiencing their pain. Similarly, a widely shared head teacher’s email to parents, saying she’d had a desperate week with her own children, did wonders to boost the sense that we’re all in this together. There are so many big questions and very few answers. We just don’t know how much ground future generations will have lost after missing so much school, or whether there will be a lasting impact on mental health. It’s a safe assumption that official help will never be enough, but school communities have already shown an indomitable spirit when it comes to addressing and overcoming problems like getting to grips with the technology required to deliver online learning. It’s a given that the same determination will get us through the next phase.
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