Parents in Slovakia worry about the future of their children due to closed schools

Children have concerns about their future, too.

(Source: TASR)

Schools have been closed since October and many children have been learning online since then. As result, 77 percent of parents of school-aged children are worried about their children's future.

These are the results of the poll conducted by the Focus polling agency for the non-parliamentary party Spolu between January 22 and 25 on 500 parents and 500 children in grades five through nine of primary schools with access to the internet.

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“We asked only those parents in the poll whose children have access to online education,” said chair of the party Juraj Hipš, as quoted by the SITA newswire. “The numbers would be radically worse if we include children and parents who were educated only via worksheets or who have been unlucky and have not been educated at all since October.”

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