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Originally Posted by jfman
Arlene Foster has apparently said that in Northern Ireland when they close schools they will do so for 16 weeks.
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There are murmurs within Scottish education that something similar will happen here.
Summer term in Scotland is only 9 weeks long because of the earlier summer holiday. We may see schools close at the end of the coming week, or possibly the week after, effectively stopping for Easter a week or two early, and then simply not attending the summer term at all. For three of the six high school years in Scotland there are exams in that period anyway, so they wouldn’t be in school at all for much of it. I predict that the high schools will make use of their empty premises to run the SQA exams while seating fewer kids in each available space.