The Guardian – Opinion
“For anyone connected with a school, the last couple of weeks should have been a harried pile-up of nativity plays, choir performances, talent shows, crumbling mince pies, off-key carols. One school did make a nativity film in the Cumbrian hills. Others “sang” in sign language. But a report by the Incorporated Society of Musicians found, alarmingly, that 53% of primaries and 63% of secondaries that normally hold a festive concert at the end of the first term of the academic year did not do so.” (more)