NICOLE FRITZ: Let’s hope our kids won’t be scarred by Covid schooling
The conditions in classrooms and playgrounds make for suspicion and fraught contact
A friend in Brazil explained how hard it is right now to live through the pandemic and quarantine, plus deal with a fascist government. As a coping mechanism, she explained, you become cynical and make fun of everything.
She was elated, however, to have found she is pregnant. That, of course, is what the care of children can offer, even demand — that we look past current travails and believe that what lies beyond will be better. These extraordinary times require that both parents and responsible political leaders weigh up different possibilities in the best interests of their charges, without any guarantee that they will arrive at the right decisions...
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