Why it’s time to get children back to school
The disastrous social, educational and emotional effects of staying out of school outweigh the still unclear health ones
29 May 2020 - 12:05
Relatively early in the Covid-19 pandemic, in March, I made the case against closing schools and later warned that doing so, even though it may be necessary, will cause many children a lifetime of harm. I was expecting that by now, two months on, we would know whether such drastic steps were justified epidemiologically.
But one of the most frustrating aspects of SARS-CoV-2 is that it just doesn’t want to yield that data easily. Nonetheless, policymakers all over the world must now weigh up the different risks and come to a decision...
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