Regardless of your take on rolling out vaccines for 12-15 yr olds this is reassuring to parents on the risk of myocarditis as a complication of Covid channel4.com/news/my-respon…

Either we need masks and all adults should wear them inside, including at their desks, or teens shouldn’t need to. My kids are now vaccinated and far, far less at risk than any adult but yet have more restrictions on their lives.

Fact: Childhood is finite. Kids won’t get a re-do on almost two years of diluted education, foregone rites of passage, missed opportunities, & a generally muted existence. The brunt of the burden will fall on kids least equipped to bear it: the poor, the abused, the disabled.

This is worth a read for anyone with kids at secondary. My S4 is writing prelims now and I’m sad all his effort will not contribute to his final grades. I’d like a system that trusts teachers to grade their pupils knowledge and ability, not performance on one day.

Cancelling sports has huge impact on people’s health and well-being - it should not be restricted when adults can socialise inside.

On face masks - National Parent Forum of Scotland says the use of face masks should be reviewed and children seem to be under stricter mitigations than other area of society The chair - Margaret Wilson - says body has been asking for evidence of why they need to be used

By me: The most unforgivable lockdown error was our neglect of children. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/1…

And Scottish teens had six weeks less school than their English peers - but no one here is talking about recovery for them. thetimes.co.uk/article/after-…

I love this tweet

I feel like all adults need to read this thread to understand why some of us are so concerned about children and young people.

Evidence grows of lockdown harm to young. But we act as if nothing happened “Keeping a generation of kids away from classrooms and friends ..was unnatural/harmful. We should be collecting data..We did the experiment. Now we must bother with the results” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Worth watching - loved this!

EXCLUSIVE: Scottish exam results will be 'manipulated' to ensure more students fail, experts claim Prediction that attainment gap will widen on Tuesday and such a shift demonstrates that a large part of the attainment gap is a choice by SQA and Scot Gov scotsman.com/education/scot…