A year after the pandemic has started, school children are struggling with being able to find a new normal in the midst of essentially losing one year of school. Many children are facing social isolation, heavy workloads, and some children have lost a parent during the pandemic or a lost one. The struggles that many kids, multiple tragedies after tragedies this last year could have long-lasting effects on children. The researchers at Harvard who had been following children ages seven through fifteen, two hundred and twenty-four of them, and found that roughly two-thirds of them have been found with symptoms of anxiety and depression. As well as behavioral problems such as hyperactivity and inattention. Besides the mental side effects, it is estimated that the children who were in remote learning are expected to earn less money when they join the workforce. However, the effects of children who have already had previous conditions, like anxiety and learning disabilities, are struggling with getting homework done, and forming connections with their peers.
Tabby Zuniga Diaz
Petersen, Andrea. “Loneliness, Anxiety and Loss: the Covid Pandemic's Terrible Toll on Kids.” The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones & Company, 9 Apr. 2021, www.wsj.com/articles/pandemic-toll-children-mental-health-covid-school-11617969003.
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