When data was reviewed, the effect in suicides among school age children was that it was significantly lower despite anti-lockdown spokespeople claiming it was higher. The shocking thing was that thisj was not even close in the data.
At the same time, the media starts talking about how bad homeschooling and lockdowns are for kids mental health and suicide rates.
Consent is always manufactured.
I feel the need to intervene here. The only thing political leaders want... is to get reelected. That is there job. To get reelected.
Sure, in certain cases, a politician has kids and wants their kids back in school. But in this example the line should go:
Political leaders had constituents that wanted kids back in school, so the leaders worked to make that happen.
We have been spared most lockdown measures, but had a couple of weeks with closed schools and day care. It was fine, but my kids were absolutely better of once schools and day care opened again.
If your kids experienced only a month of lockdowns returning to normal would make them absolutely better. What if you were locked down for the entire year or two? After your kids get use to it they might respond differently.
Many kids, including our three, would be perfectly happy if they didn't have to do any schoolwork ever again.
During the worst lockdown period here our middle child got 45 mins "online" with his teacher each day, and apart from that, he was on his own. Two working parents, with two (allegedly) full-time jobs. As the saying goes, "do the math"...
Far too much TV was watched. Far too much youtube too. Far too much Minecraft was played.
For the kids this was Just Fine(!) For us parents, not so much.
It's really, really hard for kids to avoid a handful of super-toxic students in their class, when in person. Your options are much more limited than an adult's are under similar circumstances.
Avoiding everyone is not the best solution to that. It's a part of growing up to be able to deal with people of all ilks. Living in a bubble is not healthy.
I have plenty of anecdotal evidence of suicides and depression in lockdown.
Numbers like x% better are meaningless without a base rate and this article is guilty of presenting numbers in that way. It's dangerous talk, so the author should be more responsible IMHO, or it indicative of the author not caring. Higher or lower against the base rate, this article will likely be quoted incorrectly and foster myths.
Everything I'm finding suggests they went up (the CDC "morbidity and mortality weekly report" indicated a 22% spike in 2020 relative to 2019).
The CDC data was reviewed by him on this thread. This is perhaps the simplest summary:
https://twitter.com/tylerblack32/status/1470785676316663820?...
Edit: There is actually an interesting presentation of data on this and other school mental health impacts on a even more macro basis in the Urgency of Equity website data packet which tries to provide a scientifically backed set of recommendations for schools going forward on Covid. It is biased to taking more specific actions than the anti-vax/anti-mask crowd, and even the current Covid policies of many governments.
Once Hybrid/Remote started, suicides worse, implying worse than baseline. But slightly within error bars for most.
So order of good > bad: No School > In-Person school > Hybrid
(see pg 25 for the graphs on the Urgency of Equity packet).