Kunal Chakravarty Director - Communications & Fundraising AFAL "What's the point?" My 9-year-old looked me dead in the eye as I asked if she was ready to go back to school. Truth be told, I didn't have a perfect answer for her. She will be ending her 4th grade and has the usual ho-hum 'must have' educational subjects. Yep, we've all been there. We've all been that 9-year-old who doesn't like school. The difference, though – this is a new generation – the Covid generation. While our daughter may see no point in school for the usual teenage reasons or the fact she is just recovering from Covid, she was also referring to the fact that the education system as we know it has changed forever. She has been in primary school for four years, and she has had approximately two years plus that was uninterrupted by Covid, and that's probably being generous. I remember the first wave of Covid well, and it was just after her 8th birthday. And just like