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The JC Leader, 19 June 2020

June 18, 2020 10:21
Children sit socially-distanced at a primary school in England as lockdown eases.
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Over the past fortnight we have, like all newspapers, reported on the welcome return of some year groups to school.

Many teachers have done an outstanding job of trying to minimise the damage the lockdown has caused to pupils’ education.

But even the best have been fighting a losing battle — online schooling can only ever be a poor second to physical schooling. And that is without even considering the importance to childrens’ development of the socialising aspect of schools.

Some children have not been so fortunate and have received next to no education in recent months. This divide is no less true for Jewish schools as it is for others.