SARAH VINE: We MUST help these children fulfil their hopes and dreams
Daily MailAs the mother of two children at inner-city London secondaries, I know how difficult life is for some pupils. As Amanda Spielman, head of Ofsted, so wisely says: 'Getting children engaged and into the classroom is so important — for their safety and to help them make the right life choices.' Money, status or class should not be a driver of a young person's chances in life, writes SARAH VINE The best most schools have managed to muster is a kind of glorified creche, where children of all ages and all abilities are supervised in a socially distanced environment while they attempt 'independent learning'. Both my children's schools, for example, have done their utmost and succeeded impressively in giving pupils some semblance of a 'normal' school day, with live lessons and supervised tests using Zoom and the like. We already know that a quarter of pupils — around 2.5 million children in the UK — had no schooling at all during lockdown last year.
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