Eton lockdown sparks row

ETON has angered parents by forcing pupils to watch lessons remotely after a spike in coronavirus cases forced the school into lockdown.

Around 50 boys were told to remain in their accommodation for 48 hours at the beginning of the week.

The £42,500-a-year boarding school said the measures had been taken to ‘mitigate the risk of spreading infection’. But parents argued they were ‘appalled’ by the disruption it would cause to learning.

One said: ‘Young people are still being put into lockdown and bending over backwards for something they are not even going to be very ill for.’

A spokesman for the school said pupils had ‘not been confined to their rooms’.