This will come as little surprise to anyone who has followed my writing over the last few years, but I have accepted that I simply do not understand politics at all.
On Tuesday, the government announced that it was no longer urging primary schools in England to get all children back to school for some teaching before the summer holidays. There are many reasons for this announcement and its consequences are probably being overstated in some places: the government doesn’t have any effective power to compel headteachers to reopen, but merely issues guidelines and sets expectations.
Some schools will likely go ahead with whatever opening plans they had in place. Perhaps some will abandon those plans and decide that kids who would otherwise have had some scope to come back to school this month or in July will not have that option anymore
We may, as a country, be able to reopen pubs, shops, hair salons and holiday cottages for the summer.
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