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The Tory and Labour ‘back to school’ mantra is dangerous and wrong
Year 2 Pupils at Manor Park School and Nursery in Knutsford, perform their Christmas nativity play which is recorded by headteacher

WITH Covid-19 hospitalisations soaring over Christmas to surpass the highest figures from April, ministers continue to mislead the public on the risks of schools opening normally.

Teachers’ union NASUWT general secretary Dr Patrick Roach calls for a majority of pupils to switch to online learning in January.

With the National Education Union already campaigning for a delay to reopening schools to allow mass testing and vaccination of education workers, this means the government is on a collision course with both Britain’s biggest teaching unions.

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