It’s not children who are the snowflakes any more: they have been resilient and adaptable as they learn to cope with the dystopian Covid world that is discombobulating their vital early years. It’s adults who are having the meltdown. It’s understandable for pupils to feel nervous about beginning a new school year next week after being away for so long. But it’s bizarre for adults to be making such a fuss about it, with the unions up in arms, some teachers more nervous than air stewards, supermarket workers or waiters, and 65 per cent of parents, according to the Office for National Statistics, saying they are concerned about their offspring re-entering the classroom. These are presumably some of the same people who have sunbathed on

Source: The Times August 25, 2020 16:15 UTC