School’s to Shut Early

A multi-academy trust in the North-West of England, and West Yorkshire; the Focus Trust, has decided to close its fifteen schools on the 11th December instead of the 18th due to the rise in Coronavirus cases.

School Trust to Shut

The trust has stated that it was trying to ‘safeguard staff’ as well as protect ‘precious family time.’ Although the trust has made the decision, the Department for Education has asked the trust to review the arrangement saying, ‘it is a difficult time for all but closing early is not the answer.’

Academies are independent, state-funded schools, which receive their funding directly from Government as opposed to other schools which receive their funding from local authorities.

Do you think that schools should close early during the pandemic? Are the Department of Education wrong on this occasion?

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