Thread by @KimiChaddah_

So, you’re wondering how university students are feeling? Let’s talk: mental health of the A-level 2020 kids, because now I actually have to make a PT 2.
I’m at university, and I feel like I’m being thrown to the wolves. (Please. read. this. thread.)
#studentlockdown

1. Door handles. Shared kitchens. I’ve come into contact with more people in…a day…than I have in the past 6 months. Your social circle is limited to your corridor. These are supposed to be the best years of your life. I cannot see it. I'm lonely.

2. This is what the PM said: We will ensure that schools, colleges and universities stay open-because nothing is more important than the education, health and wellbeing of our young people, you said. Health? Health? Oh the IRONY. Wellbeing? Are you being serious?
#studentlockdown

3. Who would have thought that putting thousands of students into relatively crowded accommodation where they may have to share bathrooms and/or kitchens would result in a spike? Who could have guessed? Oh yeah, that’s right, everybody except Dido Harding. We're being set up.

4. “Follow the rules if you want to be home for Christmas.”, Dowden said. Your rules are dire. To tell frightened 18 year-olds that they may not be able to return home, and leaving them in limbo in peak crisis time, without a “robust” testing system, is reprehensible.

5. Imagine having reformed GCSEs, A-levels cancelled, having to fight for a university place, being told to "not kill granny" by a man who discharged hospital patients into care homes, and being trapped in unknown territory for the holidays. That’s us.
#studentlockdown

6. Schools and universities are picking up your rubbish, universities are setting up testing centres, don’t blame the headteachers and lecturers and tutors, blame your policies, and what in the world you’re doing (Gavin Williamson, and Michelle Donelan) is beyond me.

7. We’re failed and abandoned time and time again, first an algorithm, then this- and it’s astonishing that the government choose to not see it.
8. I can't defer my place. We’ve already been blamed for our impact on this year’s Year 13. We’ve been blamed for, well, everything.

9. For context, here’s what I, and many others went through from March onwards. It was barely talked about. This is simply another blow and I’m not sure when we will reach our emotional limit, not to mention the pressure of a degree.

https://twitter.com/kimichaddahx/status/1293474298703876096

9. These are supposed to be the best times of your life and I'm literally, and emotionally, paying for it. Why wasn't it an option to simply study from home?
10. The suggestion that students should stay at uni over Christmas….so students moving from homes to university was fine?

Thank you for reading- it's keeping this one over here company as I embark on a scary journey in more unknown territory. Thank you for being there. I will never stop speaking out for my yr group, the education sector who are consistently vilified, and will try and keep writing.