We should be overhauling the school system, not rushing to send children back Suzanne Moore

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The ease with which exams were ditched shows that we could craft a model built around emotional and social development, not constant invigilation

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The hierarchy of who cares most about lovely little children is confusing. Parents, I would have thought, are up there. Except the bad ones who are not home schooling, have not bought several laptops and are frantically trying to manage working at home, too.
Then there are the awful ones who have to go out to work. Do they not care? Some, like me, have sacrificed their children for their political principles and sent their kids to state schools. I always love this phrase: it is wonderful that my children are still alive despite my attempt to serve them up as offerings to the fake household gods of fairness. Continue reading...

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