Why do some kids experience separation anxiety while returning to school after Covid-19?

Amrita lay crying in her mother’s lap, refusing to go to school. Her father was very tense because the Class VII student had neither missed classes before the pandemic, nor displayed such aberrant behaviour. Yet when school re-opened for this academic year, she would duck classes. There was no apparent reason for this girl’s behaviour as most children from different institutions had been mostly eager to get back to studies and meet their…