BBC – Sean Coughlan
“It’s more than 160 days since schools sent home pupils at the beginning of the lockdown. No-one at the time, in those bewildering March days, could have known when children would return. The leaves that were starting to appear on the trees when children hurried home are now about to turn brown. It’s been a long and strange summer. Exams were cancelled and there were replacement results. And then those results were cancelled too. There was constant confusion over whether or not pupils were going back to school.” (more)