Have you:
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- dreaded the inevitable eventuality that your child/ren's 'schooling' over the next few weeks will largely consist of sitting in front of a screen, starting in a week's time?
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- despaired at the prospect of juggling your own daytime work with supervising their remote-learning (on top of cooking, cleaning and everything else) for as long as this lasts?
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- spent numerous minutes/hours on some sort of class parents' WhatsApp group, endlessly and fruitlessly discussing how school fees for the coming term cannot possibly be justified without the children actually going to school?
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- been through so much stress about your own work already, that the mere though of any of the above adds an infinite amount of further distress?
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- (if you're a teacher) worried that, despite your best efforts, you are doubling your normal working hours only to engender endless dissatisfaction from all parents who care?
If you answer 'YES' to any of the above, please read the petition, sign (get your OTHER HALF to sign too - it's the number that counts!), and share with ANY OTHER PARENTS/TEACHERS you know. We're less than a week away from the planned return date to weeks of 'remote learning' - and this is our chance to do something collectively to make a real change that will affect each and every one of us in the most direct way.
www.change.org/MoveSummerTermDates
(the calculation of dates is based on independent schools' calendar, but with state schools it would only make a minor difference, and the basic concept remains the same.)