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Originally Posted by Chris
Missus would give you an absolute leathering if she saw this ...
Trust me, the workload was horrific. Even that Friday PDF was most likely compiled from material that was never intended for use as remote learning.
I spent two whole evenings separating massive PDFs into usable daily chunks for her one week, including cutting the answers to all the questions off the documents before they could be sent to the kids. |
And this is why not having a plan for online/blended education to supplement face to face education has been flawed from the start. There were quick wins to be had around existing holidays which would have prevented the inevitable.
Councils could (should) have developed one to two week chunks of long standalone sections of each course, prepared centrally, allowing teachers to concentrate on the teaching part. Now there’s a reason for no contingency plan and it’s that central Government absolutely never countenanced the idea and threatened schools that didn’t open with legal action.