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small percentage of pupils who carried on coming into school, most children have been out of the classroom for months. As a nation, we’ve perhaps been guilty of underestimating the work that goes on daily in our schools. If nothing else, lockdown has shown just how challenging it is to be an effective educator. Teaching, as many a home-educating parent can confirm, is one thing – delivering engaging, enjoyable lessons day in and day out is quite another. One of the many consequences brought about by Covid-19 may well be a new, healthy respect for the vital job that teachers do – combined with a fervent hope that schools continue to stay open so our children get the education they deserve.
chools and colleges in our area are used to dealing with change. They have to be. Over the past few years, they’ve coped with a revised exam system, re-jigged inspection regimes
and different ways of measuring progress. It’s added more paperwork and number crunching to teachers’ lives – something they weren’t short of in the first place. It’s just as well they’re institutions with tried-and-tested levels of resilience, because the pandemic has pushed it to the max. Nothing schools had previously taken for granted has been unaffected: every certainty has disappeared. Apart from a
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