The request that secondary schools lay on ‘face-to-face’ provision for year 10 and 12 students has caused confusion amid unclear and delayed guidance and shambolic government communication. Ben Solly will not be re-opening his school until he believes it is safe to do so

It has been a turbulent week in education. Teachers have been given a hard time from certain corners of the media – apparently, we do not care about the wellbeing of children anymore, especially vulnerable children.

We know that this could not be further from the truth, but nevertheless it still hurts to read those headlines. It worries me that, once again, education is being used as a political football.

However, I have been guided and reassured by the wise words of Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), who quoted the following proverb in one of his daily updates: “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.”

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