Princess Morripov wrote: ↑Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:19 pm
Aside from the education factor, it’s the socialisation for children and the effect that has on them too, I feel in the main adults are a little bit more equipped to deal with this, or at least even though it’s shit we understand why things are they way they are.
My 7 year old has struggled and she can't even put it into words. She started Year 2 in September, but in December her teacher went off long-term sick and ultimately never came back, though there were repeated 'hopefully next weeks' which I think prevented a long term plan.
The class had a substitute, who was nice but A quickly said the work was just worksheets and wordsearches, and they didn't seem to be doing a topic anymore. Then school closed in March. She was set one basic question a day on Seesaw, and some days not even that (some days forgotten, sometimes a vague 'play in the garden' task) and I had no real idea what sort of expectations she was supposed to meet or topics it might be valuable for her to study.
She really, really missed other children and adults to talk to and missed enjoying schoolwork - her submissions were rarely given any feedback. She was just posting into the void. In June her older brother and only playmate goes back to school, she now has increased loneliness. I do what I can but I'm not a class of friends. She asks, and cannot fathom, why a Year 6's need to be in class is greater than hers. She admits she is struggling to remember school. She says she is afraid of not settling in to Year 3 and, whilst a kid who loves school, is too afraid it won't reopen to let herself look forward to it. To me, this is giving her a sense of dread that a happy little kid should not experience.
She's the one I'm worried about now. She was right in-between that immaturity of the fresh Year 2 (6, going on 7) and wanting to mature and knuckle down to new work and stuff, then suddenly, boom, stuck at home colouring a picture of a bee for months. I feel she's been hit harder, and she can't even verbalise it. T can video call his friends, she can't (no contact details and kids that age unlikely to have phones anyway). He takes each day as it comes and doesn't seem fussed by it all, she worries about the future and 'what ifs' more than I think is healthy.
If she's a pretty resilient, supported kid and she's been hit this hard I dread to think how kids with less support are getting on.