I think they should try and find a way to get exams for A Levels on - they are more important for next life stages. Given 6th formers have a much narrower spread of subjects and would in general be more likely to engage with remote learning I think this could be a way going forward as the impact of time it of school would be less severe IMO.
That's the thing I am finding really odd about the whole thing, the assumption that everything needs to fit into conventional arbitrary timetables.
I get the point - but these timelines are generally embedded in the entire education system from early years to Uni. Making a change to the overall timeline is possible, but needs a level of skill and planning that is non-existent based on the evidence we have seen so far.
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Such an own goal for me. It’s 4 weeks. Chill out and have patienceChurch leaders launch legal challenge over lockdown closure
Pastors claim human right to express religious faith infringed by second lockdown
How about FO and get in line like the rest of us.
Yep. R of 1 still means 25000 or so infections doesn’t it
How the hell has ids more influence in this world than me
Come off it, Cummings was not in charge.
He has, perversely, been a filter from the likes of IDS though - a man whose utter and total failure as a leader doesn't, for some reason, stop him from getting a seat at the top table.
Depending on the path Boris takes (liberal)he knows he'll get the backing of Starmer , unless he swing's to the more hawkish zealots like IDS etc.
Was Ed extreme?
As ever, Grendel's missing what failure is, too, in his attempts to divert from what a horrendous shitshow IDS was and is. William Hague had terrible election results, but wasn't an abject failure as leader - it was entirely sensible he'd end up in cabinet later, if he wanted it.
I do find it strange, does he know where the skelingtons are
Very true. We've got a prime opportunity here to change things for the better yet there seems to be a strong desire to go back to how things were to keep property developers and huge international companies happy.
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Yes, new Labour is back most definitely
The focus groups don’t want their Twitter feeds full of this nonsense as it makes it more difficult to show off their Algarve photos and look for their next ski trip location.
Depends what. An I don't want the vaccine because it's unproven yet - fine. A Bill Gates eats your babies, less fine
I'm basically on Facebook for groups to share my hobbies. Turns out the people who like my posts are reactionary swivel eyed loons. Some of the posts on their profile pages are all about how government want to control, and track (if they thought rationally, they'd realise that even if they wanted to, our government would be unable to track our movements, even if they implanted all of us) and how the flu vaccine is really Mercury and kills everyone who takes it.
As said below, if a vaccine is only 90% effective, to damp rates it needs more to have it.
A quick google suggests exactly that. In the UK the aim for existing vaccines is 95% uptake. At that point the infamous herd immunity kicks in as circulation drops, below that you have things like the measles outbreak in Wales a few years back.
