'Restless and unsettled': The pandemic is taking its toll on students

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The lost year is taking its toll on the usual progress that schoolchildren make.

The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic is taking its toll on children, with schools noticing increasing anxiety, misbehaviour and conflict with friends as students struggle to make sense of the masks, stress and disruption around them.

"It’s hard to program exciting lessons when excursions and incursions are off the menu, some equipment is banned from use, and we are programming conservatively in case we have to shut down and hand over to parents," a teacher said. "Their anxiety levels are high," Ms Ward said. "Their routine has gone. We are wearing masks. We’ve been in isolation. We are running on two-week cycles for COVID numbers. Their parents are worried.

Danielle Miller from Enlighten Education, which runs programs for teenage girls in high schools, said students felt disconnected. "There’s been a problem with them trying to rebuild their friendships after such a large break," she said.

 

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There is so much to worry about these days...

Totally agree and sadly many are unaware that some high achieving girls in Yr 12 have taken their own lives as a result of the anxiety/depression with the prospect that their dreams and aspirations will not come to fruition with the current negative global climate just too sad

Perhaps SMH and other media should focus on other news. You guys should be held accountable for the suicides and fear mongering. Any of these so called journalists should give themselves an uppercut Van Dam style and should be ashamed of their contribution to all this bs.

In America some kids are talking about burning the Universities down for charging full tuition but making them study online from home.

Yet the Herald continually agitates for tougher conditions.

My child was home a week b4 lockdown. In T3 she gets the flu, is tested for Covid_19 & at home for another week. Last Mon she's running fever. The school calls: she's put on NSWEducation 'naughty' list for falling below 80% attendance. I thought I was doing the right thing

yep, and organisations such as sMh ought to be held vicariously liable for amping up the hysteria ove r a virus that's led to the deaths of less than 275 people.

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