If the Tories care about school attendance how did the concrete crisis happen?

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Like most major national controversies, the total ineptitude of those in power cannot be ignored.

Underpaid teachers buying food for kids out of their own pockets while their own bills remain unpaid.

Schools have already been in a constant state of upheaval for the last few years. From the government battling with unions over, the legacy of the pandemic on academic outcomes – and of course the commotion of flitting between online and in-person learning during the pandemic. It is the parents without the flexible jobs – those working low-paid, unstable zero-hours contracts or in retail, healthcare or manufacturing – who won’t be able to simply work from home to watch their dislodged children. It’s the families struggling to keep a roof over their heads who will struggle to absorb the cost of the extra childcare implications of children with no school to go to.

The schools that subsidise trips so their pupils can experience a theatre or seaside for once in their lives . The ones who don’t have an overflowing donation pot from alumni to smooth over this upheaval.

 

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