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Schools’ pandemic experience makes the case for wider social and economic change

AS LOCKDOWN is progressively dismantled, attention is beginning to focus on how we rebuild systems disrupted by the pandemic.

Coronavirus has been compared to an X-ray, exposing the bones of our economic structure. It highlighted whose labour we really rely on, while its intensification of existing trends throws inequalities of class, race and sex into sharp relief.

The lessons drawn from that differ depending on your place in the pecking order.

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