Children taught at home under lockdown will become a “golden generation”, say Scotland’s education chiefs who reject warnings that their grades may always be questioned.
Gayle Gorman, the chief executive of Education Scotland, urged teachers at the Scottish Learning Festival, a three-day education conference, to resist “the unhelpful notion of a lost generation so often seen in the press, political debate and narrative”. She said: “The lost generation was a term used a lot during the Second World War and it was proved in the years emerging from the war that actually it wasn’t a lost generation.
“I am very confident that children of the Covid generation are far from lost. While during the pandemic it was inevitably hard for young people, particularly for our more vulnerable young people, it was also giving many the opportunity to gain a range of important skills such as resilience, ingenuity, creativity, confidence and responsibility.”
She added: “We need to progress not regress. The lost generation is actually the golden generation and we have an awful lot to learn from them.”
