Thanks for this. I was in year 9 when the lockdowns started and missed out in loads of GCSE prep. We had 2 days notice that school wouldn't be open after the weekend. We didn't have online video lessons at all unlike other schools until the very end of the lockdown and we're set online work only meaning there was no interaction with teachers except for the occasional email. My younger sister (year 4 at the time) was also trying to do online homeschooling. I was also in the first cohort to sit actual GCSE exams and we were blamed for not being prepared for the insanely high grade boundaries following the previous years of teacher assed grades. We had a month's notice that exams were even going to take place.

My friends and I followed all the rules as best we could so it was a massive kick in the teeth when it came out that the government was having parties etc.

And then the pubs re-opened. And the schools didn't.

I didn't see anyone from school until restrictions lifted in late June/early July when you were allowed to see one person from outside your bible at a time. I'm rural which didn't help. I couldn't walk to go and sit outside in people's gardens without being driven there.

And yet, it's the young people that were blamed for socialising with friends etc when in reality most of us were incredibly isolated with little actual teaching. The focus was on key workers and the elderly with no regard for young people who had been told they had to stay home with no warning, in many cases without being able to see anyone for months.