It stands to reason that an early return to online learning, or a late return to school, is going to hit the worst-off children hardest.
“It’s really, really hard for everybody working with it to get the kind of consistency that in a dream world we’d have.”
The most deprived children are facing greater challenges to their education; Britain must remedy this disadvantage gap.
Behind most disorder is the idea of anxiety. A great deal of that is caused by a feeling that the pupil can’t do their work.
Free schools and academies have found that setting improves standards. It’s time to stop giving huge public funds to academics who disregard this evidence.
This latest scheme could drag sports clubs, the Scouts and Guides and even the TA, Royal Naval Reserves and cadets into its net.
Once the State starts monitoring the counter-cultural Christian opinions, it could be your voluntary group next for thought-policing.
A casualty of its changes in government was a confidential questionnaire for pupils – given out and collected by inspectors.