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Education is all about learning. Not just English and Maths, Science or History. From Primary One through to final year at university, it is about learning life skills too. Forming social bonds. Feeling valued. Finding the right path through life, wherever those futures may lead.
But there is one major thing we have definitely been taught all over again, even if we all knew it before.
Prior to Covid, there had been little investment in those futures.
Head teachers told how parents had been donating toilet rolls, pens and pencils. Fewer teachers, bigger classes, stressed teachers.
Northern Ireland students have always punched above their weight when it comes to academic achievement. It is hard to keep those punches flowing when hands are tied behind backs.