The Great Celebrity Bake Off: Presenter Matt Lucas is a last-minute contestant joining Sir Mo Farah, Ellie Goulding and Motsi Mabuse in the tent Harry's woke guide to business: Duke tells firms they should 'give everyone time to focus on themselves'' (in toe-curling lecture from his $14m mansion) Showdown on Today! Jennifer Lopez brings up Kotb's split from fiancé after she presses hard about Affleck romance: 'You don't want to talk about your personal stuff, Hoda?' The disruption in learning and the consequences for children’s health means that we cannot resume school as usual. We need to focus on school re-envisioning. The time for debating school reopening has passed. 'At every stage of the evolving pandemic in most communities, school reopening has been an afterthought and not a priority. The toll this will take in both the short and long term is staggering, although largely invisible at present,' wrote Dr Danielle Dooley and Dr Dimitri Christakis, pediatricians at Children's National Hospital and Seattle Children's Research Institute, respectively. 'One year into the pandemic, school districts continue to be mired in debate over reopening, students continue to fall further behind, and there is no clear consensus on offering summer school programs to help address the learning loss and other needs of children. education officials and politicians to prioritize getting schools not only reopened, but braced to handle a whole matrix of challenges in the aftermath of Zoom school. In a commentary published alongside the study, pediatricians called on U.S. 'This convergence may be a powerful way to address the increased mental health needs the pandemic has wrought among our students, especially those from Black and Latinx communities, to ensure equitable access to support and care.' 'While schools continue to meet those needs, we think they will also serve as sites of community healing where public health strategies and systems can converge and align to serve families in innovative ways. 'The pandemic revealed to all what we've long known is true: schools are important community hubs that meet fundamental needs like access to food, health and mental health supports and services, as well as other kinds of protection,' said co-senior author Dr Kenneth Fox, MD, from the Chicago Public Schools. Three times as many black children were described as 'agitated or angry' after schools closed, and rates of depression more than doubled too, from 3.7 pre-school closures to 8.2 percent after schools shutdown.Īnxiety rates increased from 10.6 percent to 17.8 percent among Hispanic students, while the share who were agitated and angry more than tripled. That may be especially true for children of color, who saw much steeper increases in mental health issues after school closures.Īmong black students, rates of anxiety nearly doubled from 8.7 percent pre-pandemic to 15.2 percent after school closures. In other words, simply bringing students back to school as it was pre-pandemic may not be enough to undo the mental health consequences of a year of Zoom school. 'Greater public attention to youth mental health issues during this time can help appropriately allocate resources and inform policies to support the well-being of students as schools begin to reopen.' The share of kids who were considered well adjusted by their peer relationships, outlooks, sibling interactions, how relaxed they were, and notions of their futures plummeted amid the pandemic Yet not every school is back to in-person learning, and pediatricians are now urging them: It's time to make a safe plan to bring kids back, before their mental health suffers any worse. It's been a year since kids were sent home from class and whether or not, and how, to reopen schools is still a subject of heated debate in the U.S., resulting in patchwork policies.Īlthough cases among children have increased in recent months as more schools have brought their students back for in-person learning, kids still rarely catch Covid, and even more rarely get seriously ill or die when then do contract the virus. Americans kids' mental health suffered during pandemic 'Zoom school,' with a quarter of children becoming stressed, anxious and angry, a survey of caregivers in Chicago found.Ī third of children and teens were lonely, and only a third of students had 'positive' peer relationships while confined to interacting with them through screens, caregivers said in the Children's Hospital of Chicago study published Thursday.
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