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    1. **Key Findings**

      * Seven in ten (71%) parents believe the social development of at least one of their children has been negatively impacted by the periodic closures of early childcare and educational facilities when COVID-19 related restrictions were in place.

      * Parents with a child attending a special school in March 2020 are most likely (82%) to report that school closures have had a negative impact on their child’s social development.

      * Almost seven in ten (68%) parents believe that at least one of their children’s education and learning has been negatively impacted by school closures.

      * Three-quarters (74%) of parents who rated their household financial situation as bad in March 2020 believe that primary school closures have negatively impacted their child’s education and learning. This compares with 61% of parents who rated their household financial situation as good at that time.

      * Nearly eight in ten (78%) respondents with a child in secondary school in March 2020 and who rated their financial situation as bad at that time feel that school closures have negatively impacted their child’s education and learning compared with two in three (66%) parents who rated their financial situation as good.

      * Almost four in ten (38%) parents who had a child in a post-secondary/third level institute in March 2020 believe that closures of these facilities will have a negative impact on their child’s future career prospects.

      * Seven in ten (69%) females who were in post-secondary/third level education in early 2020 believe that the closures of these facilities have had a negative impact on their education and learning compared with 61% of males.

    2. Plastic-Guide-8770 on

      I wonder how anyone can justify the lockdowns, school closures and other draconian measures when numerous Asian countries had far better health outcomes with no such interventions.

    3. WellWellWell2021 on

      I know some teachers and they say most children have been impacted educationally and developmentally by the lockdowns.

    4. TheStoicNihilist on

      Sure but kids bounce back and most kids will catch up. It’s the ones already at a disadvantage that will suffer the most.

    5. What was the alternative? You going to school getting sick & killing Granny? Lets face it these, iPad kids were screwed long before covid. It would be a shock to the system leaving school & realising that you need to be able to function in the world to live though.

    6. It’s hard to know. I had two brothers going through college at the time, I think they missed a lot of life experience that they’re now ‘catching up’. My early 20s were better than theirs, but their mid 20s are much more successful and less stressful than mine were – they see the world as their oyster where I felt under huge pressure to progress in the rat race.

      It’s good to take stock like this with hindsight. We may have a different view as time goes on, and the net impact is going to be as variable in the long run as it was at the time.

    7. Potential-Drama-7455 on

      And it had very little impact on protecting the most vulnerable, who all got exposed to COVID anyway. The vast majority of the vulnerable HAD to have contact with carers, especially those in care homes. But hindsight is 20/20. Hopefully we can learn something from this and at least begin to acknowledge that mistakes were made.

      The 3 in 10 parents were either homeschoolers or just weren’t paying attention to their kids education.

    8. MouseJiggler on

      *Due to the government’s response to COVID-19.
      Here, I fixed it for you.

    9. TheBaggyDapper on

      What parents feel isn’t necessarily true. When I was in school the majority believed the amount of catechism involved influenced our development.

    10. Ok-Coffee-4254 on

      I think the bigger problem is phone and social media.

    11. sureyouknowurself on

      Masks for primary school kids when they returned was idiotic.

    12. Fern_Pub_Radio on

      File under “No Excrement Sherlock!”. Personally I will never forget nor forgive Gov or Teachers (Primary) for how they abandoned children during Covid and gave precedence to insidious frankly abusive teachers unions and teachers…. Never forget longest school lockdown in OECD, did our kids have a particular virulent strain of Covid which threatened our majority young teacher cohort? Did they f**k, teachers turned their back and the Gov like cowards buried their heads rather than face them down….and spare me the “my Mary was gteat she did a zoom call a week with little Johnny “, most of EU did full remote teaching for the early part and were back in classrooms long before our teachers got off Netflix …. and yet teachers wonder why today we consider them the most moany whinging under worked over paid bunch of workers in the public sector ….

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