According to this article the Institute for Fiscal Studies claims that Covid could cost children £350bn in earnings due to lost learning. The article says:
The IFS estimates that such a substantial loss of learning is likely to be followed by lower skills and qualifications for children at school during the pandemic, resulting in permanently lower incomes during their careers.
What absolute nonsense. All school kids from 4 to 18 will have lost perhaps a year or so of schooling. Are employers not going to employ any of them? Just employ older people instead? How often do people use matrices or calculus or know about fronted adverbials, or utilise their knowledge of trilobites and igneous rocks? Let's face it, there's precious little that kids learn that will translate or be useful to their careers. What employers should be interested in are peoples' skills for the job and how hard they will work. The former will be acquired from experience, not having a load of irrelevant knowledge in their heads.
Oh yes, and I'm sure most adults won't have retained the vast majority of stuff they learnt at school anyway. Who knows what matrices are?
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