«The teacher was still wearing a mask. It gave my son nightmares »[LETTER TO EDITOR]

Parents are worried about the new school year for many reasons. A letter from my mother came to our editorial office, saying that her son had a school “respectfully”. He hadn’t learned from the pandemic that it was anything important. Instead, he learned about the inconsistency of adults. And he was no longer afraid of the virus. Below we publish the letter in its entirety.

1. From March 2020, learning took place in Polish schools in various forms – from full-time, through hybrid, to online lessons.
2. At the same time, various restrictions were introduced that changed over time. For example, the notebooks were quarantined so that the teacher did not catch the coronavirus. Then it was abandoned
3. Today, in Poland, children over 19 years of age can be vaccinated against COVID-12. Younger students are not protected against the Delta variant. And at the same time, as the author of the letter writes, they are not very afraid of it
4. More information can be found on the Onet homepage.

You have to go to school. “But if you say on TV that you don’t have to, then … you don’t have to”

The beginning of the school year was a great event for the child. It’s been over for a long time, and I still remember feeling anxious and excited before September 1. I had to go shopping with my mother, get the most beautiful notebooks, a new pencil case and some colorful “gelpens”. And then just counting the hours until I go to school again, meet my friends, tell each other about what we did during the summer holidays.

You always complained about school, but we were all a bit happy about this return. My son is nine years old. Before the pandemic began, he only attended school for a few months. Like all of us, he managed to move from kindergarten to first grade, wrote down less than one notebook of patterns and letters, and ended up in distance learning. Do you know what our preparations for September 1 look like now? Well, completely different than the ones I remember from my childhood.

He holds school in deep respect, because for him it is a strange, insignificant creation that supposedly exists and needs, but if you say on TV that you don’t need to, then… you don’t have to. Once in the schedule, he has lessons at school at 7.30 and you have to sit in the desk, and in a moment you can lie in bed until 9, then turn on the computer in your pajamas and show the lady on the webcam what a cool cat she has. Then simulate internet problems and relax on YouTube. Because you can. His colleagues do the same too.

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Why should we try this year?

I am also not really into buying a layette. I spent a fortune before my second semester in the first grade so that the young man would mostly work on the computer anyway. Then the same thing a year ago in September. Notebooks, covers, brand new crayons, and the child was sitting at home in a moment and the lady did not check if she drew the lines and wrote homework. Why should we try this year?

One minister insisted that the school was to start in September and nothing would change that. Another hoots that the fourth wave is coming and there will be more lockdowns soon. So I already know today that my son comes from a stationary station for two weeks, maybe a month. And then everything will start all over again – my remote work on his remote lessons. Total chaos, no sense of duty, because and when was he to learn it? Sitting up late to do the homework and the backlog he made by pretending not to be on the Internet. Phones from the tutor that he does not pay attention to the lessons. In online lessons, which for him are just a boring break, but nothing important. Because why should they be important, if he did not have the opportunity to learn that school is a priority and you have to learn? In fact, for almost two years now, he has received the opposite message.

Poisoned candy, quarantine notebooks, and white gloves

This is one side of the coin and the other is there. Fear, terror and chaos. Anti-vaccines say the virus is gone and all that is happening is one big nativity scene. The authorities prohibit entering the forest, the police chase away young people standing in groups in the open air, and in a moment politicians meet in the crowd of mask bases at a radio’s birthday party. Adults look at it and see the inconsistency.

Now think about the children. They go to school and wear a mask. You must also have a mask in the cloakroom. But when you enter the corridor with the same children, you can take it off, because there is no virus here. Notebooks and test papers must be sent in for a three-day quarantine, because you will contract the virus from them. But then you don’t have to, because now the virus is no longer sitting on notebooks. Notebooks are OK. In the halls, even at 5 degrees outside, you need to ventilate all the time so as not to get infected with the virus. It’s so cold that the kids catch a cold, so they can’t go to school anymore. Not because they caught COVID, but because they have a cold, because they were sitting in the cold. The virus lurks on the candy wrappers, so there is no birthday celebration in a pandemic. But only for the first six months, so poorly as someone was born in the fall or winter. Because spring children can bring candies – then the virus gives up sitting on the papers.

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My son’s tutor spent the whole year in class wearing a surgical mask and white gloves. It later caused the little girl to have nightmares, because he dreamed that you didn’t have a face underneath, just such a big hole and worms were coming out of it.

«We live in terrible times. And our children will pay the most for it »

On September 1st, my son is due to return to school, which now has little to do with school. He stopped being afraid of the virus because this inconsistency started hitting him. I know that both he and his classmates are throwing their masks across the floor or swapping them. This is fun for them. They help themselves with food, share sandwiches or snacks. At first they were scared, but not now. Because there was so much scaring, and yet nothing is happening. Sometimes a child goes into quarantine and has two weeks of quiet time, then comes back and it’s OK.

So what if I’m scared because he is too small to be vaccinated. Because I hear that the Delta variant is dangerous for children. After that, how am I supposed to explain to my son that he has to be careful because the virus is threatening him? It’s not possible. Just as it is impossible to persuade him now that he has to study and apply diligently. That school is important. He and I know it won’t take long.

I don’t know if this will ever end. We live in terrible times. And our children will pay the most for it. I have a feeling that it is impossible to forget all this and educate young people so that they would like to buy these notebooks before September 1 and put them in elegant covers. I’ve had enough.

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