Tory former children's minister Tim Loughton said"the impact on those from the most deprived backgrounds will be considerable" and asked whether summer programmes were being considered.
Poorer pupils have been facing educational poverty for years - thanks to countless cuts in education. Academisation has led to thousands of children off rolled with no education at all, for better Progress 8 scores. Where was your care then?
Yet their families, and the pupils, are alive. We're teachers, we will do everything in our power to support all our pupils to 'catch up', probably off our own backs and with no extra funding, because that's what we do.
European history does teach about poverty all around the world. How can people prevent poverty without any thing for themselves? Are Hebrews going back to slavery tomorrow? The question is who is trying to give back to Europe? I feel that way in America. George Thomas
If the situation in your country is complicated for Education, imagine here in Brazil where educators give more value to the June parties than to the sciences.