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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.
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.