Hong Kong needs to reopen schools and save children from the ‘Covid slide’ in education

My phone vibrates. A friend has texted me another petition. “Reopen Hong Kong Schools.” I sigh, and add my signature to the thousands of others. I’ve signed several of these over the past few months. Hong Kong parents are desperate. But no one seems to be listening. Hong Kong schools have been closed on and off for a full year now. They open for a few weeks, then are shuttered almost instantly each time case numbers begin to rise. This leaves children at home with online learning programmes of…

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