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kids who have now lost two years of education
I don't disagree, but I also think there's an unfortunate quantification of children's learning going on in the media and messaging. Working in HE I'm aware that we need/prefer people to come in with certain skills, but I also think a lot of the talk about 'catching up' in terms of curriculum, is bullshit. I don't think you were meaning that exactly, just flagging it as a thing I've been noticing. I don't have any answers.
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Yeah, I don't have answers, but I've been doing data analysis for an assessment company for a large chunk of this year so maybe thinking about it a bit more than I would have in normal times. There will also be a knock-on for HE (where I do the rest of my work). And of course, reading about hundreds of thousands of kids missing classes any given week is also a bit worrying.
The relationship can be tested with a delay taken into consideration. The latest (delta) wave has been going on long enough to find analogues in the October and December waves. More data will allow us to be more confident, of course. You can pull the raw data from data.gov.uk, pull out as many days as you can/want with a two-week lag, and just model the relationship for equivalent periods at different times. It's still a very, very, strong statistical relationship, but the impact this time compared to previously is (so far) weaker.
(there are, of course, probably much better ways of modelling this. I'm no epidemiologist. But I'm sure regression is one of their tools).
Me too.
Totes. They're fucking useless. And pricks.
There's also the impact this is having on kids who have now lost two years of education.