It seems that a quarter of A level-students preparing to go to university haven’t been set any work by teachers. So… what does that tell you about the rest of them, the ones who aren’t the focus of teacher attention?
Perhaps all over the country, there is a frenzy of education going on. It just hasn’t happened very much in my vicinity. Except, from what I can gather, from people with children in private schools. I do know of teachers who’ve heroically gone out of their way to teach, set work and mark it (it takes more time marking online) but it’s by no means the norm.
How about the summer holidays lasting a month rather than six weeks, to take some account of the time lost?
In the case of my own children, 13 and 16, online teaching has been accurate in the case of the qualifier, not the substantive. There’s been an awful lot of stuff set online but not much marking and hardly any actual teaching.
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