1 in 7 pupils did no school work during lockdown
Cost of Covid to city children laid bare as thousands ‘ghosted’ by education system
THE toll of remote learning on the education of thousands of Birmingham pupils was laid bare this week after a major survey of parents.
Research by the University of Birmingham
discovered 15% of children (one in seven) had not been doing any regular school work amid lockdown last year. More than half received no marks or feedback and a third had been doing just one or two hours of work a day.
Robert Halfon, Tory chairman of the Commons Education Committee, said: “I worry that we are creating a generation of ‘ghosted’ children, lost to our education system.”
A National Audit Office report also revealed schools in richer areas did more for pupils than those in poorer areas.