At the beginning of next year, the Government should require all schools to allow their pupils to re-take the previous school year
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Assuming that the lockdown continues into Summer, it will have cost pupils ~half of their total time in their present year.
Mostly, this will have little impact, but we worry that it will adversely affect the social/intellectual lives of:
Reception children just learning to read or add
Those just integrating into new high schools or colleges
Those preparing for the 11+
The cost of reducing workforce entry rate for a year is far less than that of hindering the education of a whole generation.