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There are some good points made in this treatise on the importance of English teaching – if you can get past the obvious claims and lopsided arguments, says David James

Wearing masks in the classroom may make medical sense but it goes against everything else teaching is meant to be about, says David James

Fewer meetings and better parent links – some of the ways schools have changed are for the better, writes David James

Many commentators predict that education could be transformed by lockdown, but they are set to be disappointed. Teachers and students long to return to their traditional classrooms 

We might be able to impart knowledge through the internet, but there’s so much more to teaching than that – and we need schools to be open for that alchemy to take place

If schools close, parents can’t work – and everything falls apart. We’re lucky teachers are dedicated enough to expose themselves to daily risk, says David James