As an education reporter, one thing I am sick about writing -- Schools reopen, school closes again. Why is education the first victim of any onslaught -- be it the pandemic or pollution. Will closing school control pollution, is it different air while at home and school?

No one cares for kids - not NCPCR, Gopal Rai, Adesh Gupta or Arvind Kejriwal - no one. If they cared, they’d do something abt sources of #AirPollution Instead they’re politicising the issue & harming kids by cutting off access to edu. Air toxic everywhere, incl homes

What is the rationale behind school closures citing pollution as a cause ? Is the air better at home somehow ? Why do we punish children for our failures as administrators and as a society ?

In 2021, 500+ parents wrote to Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights Anurag Kundu to intervene in repeated school closures. They delivered. Wrote a brilliant letter to Commission for Air Quality Management. We need them again now. To stand up for kids & resist #CrimesAgainstChildren by Arvind Kejriwal NCPCR प्रियंक कानूनगो Priyank Kanoongo.

New from me and Rob Hughes in ADC Face masks for young children (<12) should be avoided in view of lack of evidence of utility and potential harms 1/ adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

The only study which controlled for regional differences was the preschool vs primary school study from Catalonia The only difference was age, and no significant difference was found in masked vs unmasked cohorts suggesting lack of clinically relevant efficacy 3/

Annual Pollution-led School Closures Affect Learning, Experts Suggest 'Institutionalising' Bad Air Breaks — Vatsala Shrangi with an important story #education News18.com news18.com/news/education…

BBC News (UK) .Tanya Aggarwal with frequent shutting down of schools, it will hamper early childhood development. Unfortunately, govt have decided lockdowns as a default for 'protecting' children when there is much (unseen) harm that is caused.

After 32 months, Sweden – the country that famously rejected lockdowns and school closures in spring 2020 – has the lowest cumulative excess mortality in the world, in a damning indictment of lockdown orthodoxy. dailysceptic.org/2022/11/08/swe…

Over the last few weeks, meta-analysis studies from highly-respected researchers found that: 1. Masks has NO impact on the epidemic trajectory (Cochran) 2. Natural Immunity >> Vax Immunity (or ~the same) (Lancet) 3. Vax mandates did NOT increase vaccination rates (GMU) 4.

Many schools have made wearing masks compulsory for the children, on pretext of COVID-19 uptick. This step is completely unscientific & rather harmful for children. Schools shud stop this immediately. Parents should protest such policy. Govt Shud intervene. Dharmendra Pradhan

. Atishi NPSC India Action Committee Sudha Acharya & everyone else pushing for forcibly masking schoolkids: pls wear a well-fitting mask for 8 hrs daily in a non-AC room in #Delhi severe heat. Stop using our kids as pawns just to show that u are “doing something”. #UnmaskOurKids

Oh the irony of this hoarding smack outside mumbai airport just before the rains …

It has been a yr since we heard from Zulfi (July 23, 2022). It’s difficult to accept that he will not come back to us, and we once again urge the Indian High Commission in Kenya and the Randhir Jaiswal , Government of Kenya, to find him and provide us with closure.

Vegetarianism is a choice, much like meat-eating. But the moment you use it as an indicator of ‘purity’, deeming meat-eating as impure/dirty and utensils used to cook it as untouchable, you enter the dark realm of casteist thought. Eat what you want. Don’t discriminate.

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