Lockdown’s Tragic Legacy for Our Two Million Troubled Teens
Christopher Stevens in the Mail has reviewed Helping Our Teens, a BBC 2 show that he says shows the real price of Covid in the terrible impact of lockdowns on the U.K.’s two million troubled teens.
This is the real price of Covid. Schoolchildren, who were the least likely to suffer serious health problems from coronavirus, are the ones most affected by the legacy of lockdowns. It’s no surprise. Many predicted it, including strenuous voices in the Daily Mail. But the unfairness of it is nothing less than wicked. Children are expected to shrug off the disruptions and carry on as if they hadn’t missed all those months in the classroom. The consequences can be tragic, and are seen with horrid clarity in Helping Our Teens (BBC 2), a school documentary filmed at Beacon Hill Academy at Dudley in the West Midlands. “We are now facing the ripple effect of Covid,” says Headteacher Sukhjot Dhami. “It’s the aftermath. It’s the shock waves.”
Nationwide, nearly two million pupils regularly fail to turn up at least once a fortnight, with an estimated 100,000 missing at least half their lessons. Many of those who do attend have serious problems with behaviour or mental health.
This documentary focused on just two, which meant their school lives were depicted in sometimes repetitive detail.
When we saw Year 10 pupil Jaylilah swear at a teacher and storm out, there was no mistaking this girl needed help. By the time we’d seen it five or six times, it became more difficult to retain sympathy with her – and simply extraordinary to realise how much abuse teachers are now expected to soak up meekly, the way staff at luxury hotels used to be harangued by over-entitled guests.
Jaylilah was a bright child who seemed genuinely unable to understand why she couldn’t tell adults to eff off whenever they annoyed her. “That’s just me being me,” she explained.
Previous generations of teachers might have dismissed her as impossible and abandoned her. She was fortunate to be treated with limitless patience by staff who recognised that her whole future depended on whether they could find ways to tame her.
More distressing was the sight of Taylor, a Year 11 girl who was overwhelmed by waves of depression and anxiety. Maria Gentles, a behaviour expert working with the school, used exercises that amounted to positive thinking. But the real breakthrough came when Taylor started boxing classes, and found a way to release all that pent-up worry.
Tauter editing would have enabled this episode, the first of two, to follow other children’s stories. Taylor and Jaylilah are far from the only pupils suffering the desperate after-effects of school shutdowns. What this programme did make abundantly clear is that, for many teachers, education has been reduced to a sideline. The chief job for many is coping with distressed children.
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One of a (potentially long list) of real long term damage caused by the political panic a few years ago. Another long term item was mentioned in today’s “News Roundup”: https://hartuk.substack.com/p/vax-harms As to the truth of it all, we just don’t know yet. What we do understand is that it has been far too easy for lots of us to comply with crazy ideas. There is always a risk of opportunism in any market; that’s normal.
Political panic? They were busy having parties, shagging, testing their eyesight. They don’t seem to have been overly panicked to me.
You have lost me with this comment tof.
I was referring to the politicians and their lackeys, who didn’t appear to be panicked to me.
Ok. Thanks for the clarification. You are right of course.
Nothing to do with “panic”, a carefully orchestrated episode of attempted total control.
As this seems mostly to be the effect on the girls, one assumes that the boys have largely escaped from any effects.
Which we know they did not. Perhaps it manifested in different ways, but the effects are clearly there.
You aren’t sugesting that boys and girls are different, are you? Off to a re-education camp immediately.
I made the assumption that teen boys and girls had been affected equally but in different ways; this study appears to show that girls were indeed affected more, although does not offer much in the way of suggestions why.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176522001021
We find that emotional and behavioural difficulties increased more among 10–15-year-old girls than boys during the COVID-19 pandemic relative to the pre-pandemic years. The results on life satisfaction are consistent. We find gender differences in pandemic effects on children’s mental wellbeing among all income groups, although these differences are more salient in lower-income families. The findings (presented in Online Appendix C) are qualitatively similar for younger children, but less statistically significant and robust. Our results suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic affected the mental wellbeing of girls more than boys, especially those from lower-income families.
Did we know this? I don’t think I knew this.
”GP practices are being offered extra money for each COVID-19 jab they administer as NHS England brings forward its autumn booster programme.
In addition to the £7.54 they could already claim for each vaccination, practices will now be offered an additional £5 for each jab given to patients.
Vaccines for care homes residents, or those who are otherwise housebound, already carry a payment of £10, but practices will now receive an additional £10 for each one given between 11 September and 22 October.
Meanwhile a one-off completion payment of £200 will be given for each fully vaccinated care home, a letter sent yesterday to NHS staff says.
The additional £5 on offer brings payments back up to the original fee level of the vaccine programme, the British Medical Association (BMA) told Yahoo News.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gps-given-more-cash-covid-144537499.html
Such “incentives” really corrupt the practice of medicine.
I genuinely do not know the answer to this hypothetical question. I’ve never had a Covid vaccine – but if I suffered some sort of bizarre and unforseen psycological meltdown and decided I needed to take the Autumn vaccine, would I need to have the 2 original vaccines plus all the boosters beforehand? If this was the case, my GP could earn a fortune off me.
I answered this in the mRNA article but good on you for finding the exact figures.
I mentioned it in passing yesterday Mogs but didn’t post the link. Thanks for the link.
Impartial GP medical advice my arse!
For those that have parents that supported lockdowns, I hope that their mental health continues to spiral downwards
That’s very harsh. Yes, I would agree that their mental health may well have been affected by their parents – but it’s not the children’s fault that they have knobheads as parents.
Indeed, the children are the victims here. Let’s NOT wish them any further harm as punishment for the sins of their parents (and the other adults around them).
Agreed. Our society is already obsessed with the sins of our (great grand x many) fathers. All it takes now is for an ancestor in the 1600s to have taken a pee in the same loo as the family member of a slave trader to have your entire family line written off in the present!
If they are victims, they are victims of their parents – not a penny of MY taxes should be spent on them.
I’m now past caring…..
Now now, Victor. Escape is futile. If the doctors and nurses in the hospitals showed even a fraction of the compassion towards their patients during the scamdemic as this man is showing imagine how much less iatrogenic deaths there would have been. Not all heroes wear their underpants on the outside!
https://twitter.com/Enezator/status/1700422745522159919
I’m told that squirrel tastes quite good ….
I know my mental health is f***cked from the lockdowns and I’m 48. I can only begin to imagine what it’s like for a 13 year old who didn’t have that extra 30-odd years of cynicism and mental armour. It’s a terrible world, culturally, to bring a child into right now. If I had children, I wouldn’t want them to go near the British education system.
Presumably you complied? Observationally, the people, that I know personally, with the best outcomes, are those that continued to see their families, socialised at home, and ignored the “rules”
We tried to do this but almost nobody we knew/know was interested. Our adult kids, a couple of friends, that’s it.
Same. Almost no one I knew wanted to ‘take the risk.’
For most the people we knew it seemed to be more about the risk of getting caught than the risk of covid, and the risk of realising you were on the the same side as horrid right wing people.
The truly horrid people are always the ultra woke, everybody has rights, firkin left.
Damn straight
During week 4 of 21 days to flatten the curve, myneighbours and I created a path between the backs of the houses.
You obviously live in a classier neighbourhood than I do.
No. I lived with my elderly parents for the whole thing. I violated the ‘rules’ regularly. The fact that I should feel any joyous rage when I would shake hands with someone or hug them or anything else normal sickened me. I’m unjabbed, never used a PCR test or LF test and never wore a mask. Our neighbourhood was full of people obeying the rules. Didn’t know many people willing to break them.
I spent a lot of time watching old films and videos of music concerts from down the decades. It made me sad watching all those thousands of happy people at big music events, thinking they would all be masked and afraid.
Imagining Matt Hancock being sodomised by a pneumatic drill was also fun in my spare time! 😉
My mental health is fine: but then I ignored the nonsense as much as possible and carried on with life as close to normal as I possibly could. It meant breaking a few moronic “rules” and ignoring the idiotic “advice” but then, moronic rules are there to be broken and advice can always be ignored ….. and was.
In fact, the Christmas “lock-down” was probably the best Christmas I’d had since my parents died 15 odd years ago. Both my sons travelled down from London/Surrey to me in the West Country, arriving shortly before Johnson’s moronic tiers were imposed. We spent a day in Wells, Somerset (Tier 2) ….. went to the Bishops Palace to see the Christmas Decorations, followed by a pub lunch ….. Christmas Day was at home as usual …. and on Boxing Day we went to Weymouth, had a lovely coastal walk, followed by fish n chips on the beach.
We had several other days out between Christmas and NY, and they finally went back home on 2 Jan. It was great.
If you’re discussing mental health from Lockdowns be sure to count me in…
There needs to be prison time for those that brought lockdowns and experimental ‘vaccines’ down onto unsuspecting populations. It’s not an excuse to say the WHO or CCP told me to as that is just ‘following orders’. There must also be prison time for those in the UN, WHO and CCP for crimes against humanity. These were/are very subtle crimes, but crimes none the less, as unnecessary deaths and economic hardships have been the results.
No prison time. Restoration of the death penalty and proper trials for crimes against humanity. The UN, WHO and other corrupt transnational organisations need obliterating.
Good post and mostly good comments.
I don’t want to be a bore, but remember that, whether by coincidence or design, all the covid jab, lock and fear swinishness was in addition to the Net Zero Carbon Project Fear swinishness.
In fact I think that as well as lining the correct pockets and increasing their control, it was an experiment to see how much bloody nonsense “at warp speed” they could impose, as it was and is obvious that the Climate wasn’t behaving as they had predicted.
Zero Carbon and Zero Covid. Two cheeks of the same shitty arse.
Oh yes, it was definitely an experiment to gauge the effectiveness of the propaganda, the level of control that could be imposed, and the likely kick-back.
What this programme did make abundantly clear is that, for many teachers, education has been reduced to a sideline.
Read: Many of these so-called teachers couldn’t teach pupils anything if their lives depended on it.
Never forget that it was the “Education Sector” …. the Teaching Unions and the D of E which caused this, egged-on by the BBC.
They deliberately wrecked the life chances of an entire generation of children.
“This is the real price of Covid” No. Covid did none of it. It was the Government’s lockdown policies that caused these harms. Covid itself had little impact on Schools. It was locking down teens and keeping them away from their peers which has resulted in fractured mental health from which they may never recover
I have no doubt the past 3 years have altered people’s mental state.
Personally, I think I am mentally stronger, less likely to doubt myself, more willing to speak up.
I have become less trusting of institutions and people in general, more wary, however I do believe people in the whole are not setting out to intentionally do harm.
Would be interesting to look at mental health across the ages from that angle.