{"id":59168,"date":"2021-09-06T16:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-09-06T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=59168"},"modified":"2021-09-08T03:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:54:57","slug":"in-debates-about-opening-schools-were-neglecting-an-important-voice-our-childrens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/in-debates-about-opening-schools-were-neglecting-an-important-voice-our-childrens\/","title":{"rendered":"In debates about opening schools, we\u2019re neglecting an important voice: our children\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/back2SchoolCovid23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"471\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-59260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/back2SchoolCovid23.jpeg 680w, https:\/\/world.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/back2SchoolCovid23-250x173.jpeg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><br \/>\nEuropean countries have been asked to focus on \u201censuring the right of children to be involved in all decisions that affect them\u201d, in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/344503\/WHO-EURO-2021-3169-42927-59948-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">newly released report<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the school year in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The report \u2014 from the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/344503\/WHO-EURO-2021-3169-42927-59948-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">High-level meeting on schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>\u201d held in July \u2014 states \u201cvery few governments\u201d have made an effort to engage children in decision-making.<\/p>\n<p>The report was released by the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s based on the premise school closures are detrimental to child health, well-being and educational outcomes. It recommends, from a child-centred perspective, that school closures be avoided as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>And it presents ways to help keep children safe from COVID when they do go to school.<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Report from third high-level meeting on schooling in the time of COVID-19, jointly organized by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the United Nations Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/co8v7brUfe\">https:\/\/t.co\/co8v7brUfe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bruce Adamson (@Bruce_Adamson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bruce_Adamson\/status\/1432298898803003395?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Schools in New South Wales are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2021\/aug\/27\/return-to-school-nsw-plan-what-you-need-to-know-when-schools-go-back-reopening-covid-date-students-term-4\">on track to reopen by October 25<\/a>\u00a0following four months of closure. The state government has introduced an incremental reopening plan. Kindergarten and year 1 children go back to the classrooms first, followed by other cohorts on weekly bases \u2014 a process that should be complete by November 8.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-09-01\/victorias-new-covid-lockdown-and-restrictions-approach\/100425020\">not given certainty<\/a>\u00a0to whether children will return to the classroom in term 4.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing the NSW plan to international best practice, it doesn\u2019t measure up. And Victoria\u2019s movements don\u2019t seem to be following a child-centred approach either.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Where the back-to-school plans fall short<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The number of children contracting COVID-19 in Australia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/under-12s-are-increasingly-catching-covid-19-how-sick-are-they-getting-and-when-will-we-be-able-to-vaccinate-them-165948?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton\">continues to rise<\/a>. Meanwhile, data from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/08\/28\/delta-variant-unvaccinated-children-elementary-schools\/\">United States<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-08-29\/push-for-young-people-to-get-vaccinated-in-the-uk-covid\/100389022\">United Kingdom<\/a>\u00a0show high transmission rates in primary schools, especially where insufficient safety measures are in place.<\/p>\n<p>According to the NSW plan, school staff will\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/coronavirus-nsw-schools-restrictions-update-staggered-return-for-students\/047f63df-d8a4-4aa2-a745-0a71278f6899\">have to be vaccinated by November 8<\/a>, but high school students, who are eligible for the vaccine, are free to return to school without getting the jab. This means primary school children, for whom a safe vaccine is not available, will return to school before all adults are vaccinated. So schools will have high concentrations of unvaccinated individuals coming together under one roof, spending hours indoors, every day.<\/p>\n<p>Masks will be mandated for all adults on site and for secondary school children, but not for primary school children. This is despite their proven success in reducing transmission.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.08.10.21261726v1\">study<\/a>\u00a0published earlier this month shows that, without mandatory masks and testing in primary schools, more than 75% of students are at risk of infection within three months of returning to school. Universal mask-wearing can reduce student infections by 26-78%, it says. Adding fortnightly testing can further reduce infections by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>The effectiveness of masks in schools has been proven in other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/10\/opinion\/covid-schools-masks.html?referringSource=articleShare\">studies<\/a>\u00a0too.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/bitstream\/handle\/10665\/344503\/WHO-EURO-2021-3169-42927-59948-eng.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\">European report recommends<\/a>\u00a0rapid testing in schools. Austria, for example, has developed a rapid screening policy, aiming to avoid school closures by identifying infected children, removing them from schools and locating other infected students through secondary tracing. Children perform the test themselves, and most children and parents were satisfied with this regime as it helped keep schools open and reduce transmission.<\/p>\n<p>NSW has not introduced a similar plan.<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations in the European report include paying attention to children living in vulnerable situations, the effects school closures have on them, and how digital gaps can curtail their access to remote learning. Schools in Victoria are open to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdirect.gov.au\/covid19-restriction-checker\/education-and-childcare\/vic\">vulnerable children<\/a>\u00a0and children of essential workers.<\/p>\n<p>But in NSW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdirect.gov.au\/covid19-restriction-checker\/education-and-childcare\/nsw\">parents in LGAs of concern<\/a>\u00a0are \u201cstrongly encouraged\u201d to keep their kids at home. Many of these are lower socioeconomic areas. This further marginalises children from communities who already suffer the most during the lockdown.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Children have internationally agreed rights<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The July meeting in Europe heard that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[\u2026] the Committee on the Rights of the Child warned [\u2026] of the grave physical, psychological and mental impacts of the pandemic on children and called on countries to base their response not just on public health, but also on the broad framework of rights, including economic, social and cultural rights.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report draws attention to several children\u2019s rights governments should respect. Australia ratified the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/ProfessionalInterest\/Pages\/CRC.aspx\">UN Convention on the Rights of the Child<\/a>\u00a0in 1990, which means children in Australia can expect the government to respect their rights.<\/p>\n<p>The call to include children as part of decision-making follows a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tbinternet.ohchr.org\/_layouts\/15\/treatybodyexternal\/Download.aspx?symbolno=INT\/CRC\/STA\/9095&amp;Lang=en\">similar one<\/a>\u00a0from the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in April last year.<\/p>\n<p>Children have unique insight into how a school day looks. When presented with information about potential safety measures to be implemented \u2013 particularly around physical distancing \u2014 they will be able to provide views and solutions relevant to them and other children.<\/p>\n<p>Participation of children requires more than giving them the opportunity to voice their concerns. Whenever a child speaks,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/01411920701657033\">there must be an adult willing to listen<\/a>\u00a0and to pay close attention to what the child is saying.<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence to suggest the NSW government gave children any meaningful opportunity to participate in the design of its back-to-school plan, nor that it based its decisions on any child\u2019s rights assessment.<\/p>\n<p>There is also no evidence to suggest the Victorian government is engaging with children as it prepares its own back-to-school plan.<\/p>\n<p>A child\u2019s rights assessment must account for a range of relevant rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. These include the rights to education, health, play, life and development. Children\u2019s best interests must be a primary consideration, and this can not be done without giving proper weight to children\u2019s own insights.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasising physical safety and therefore closing schools while overlooking other equally important dimensions of children\u2019s lives is not a child-friendly policy. Nor is opening schools in the name of facilitating adults\u2019 \u201cfreedom\u201d, without adequately protecting children\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong> Noam Peleg is a Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law and Justice; Associate, the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>European countries have been asked to focus on \u201censuring the right of children to be involved in all decisions that affect them\u201d, in a\u00a0newly released report\u00a0ahead of the school year in Europe. The report \u2014 from the \u201cHigh-level meeting on schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic\u201d held in July \u2014 states \u201cvery few governments\u201d have made [&hellip;]\n&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/in-debates-about-opening-schools-were-neglecting-an-important-voice-our-childrens\/\" class=\"more\">learn more&rarr;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15645],"tags":[421969],"coauthors":[11733],"class_list":["post-59168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-return-during-covid"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In debates about opening schools, we\u2019re neglecting an important voice: our children\u2019s - World leading higher education information and services<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/world.edu\/in-debates-about-opening-schools-were-neglecting-an-important-voice-our-childrens\/\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In debates about opening schools, we\u2019re neglecting an important voice: our children\u2019s - World leading higher education information and services\" class=\"yoast-seo-meta-tag\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"European countries have been asked to focus on \u201censuring the right of children to be involved in all decisions that affect them\u201d, in a\u00a0newly released report\u00a0ahead of the school year in Europe. 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