DAILY: Home School Never Ends

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6 • 984 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

How is the Great Home Schooling Experiment going? Is distance learning exposing the holes in Conservative eduction policy – and the gulf between wealthy pupils and state students without laptops and iPads? Do we need to stop treating schools as a national childcare service? And will we see the end of traditional summer holidays? Education journalist LAURA MCINERNY who runs Teacher Tapp talks to Dorian Lynskey about the ongoing class struggle. “Nine in ten vulnerable children are now NOT at school.” “Those in the poorest areas are reporting that their children are doing the least and have the least resources.” “Motivation is a massive issue. If something you’ve spent five years working towards is taken away, you might just think ‘I’m never going to work for anything again’.” Presented by Dorian Lynskey. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:14.2	closes five days a week at the moment. I spend half every day teaching my eight-year-old and desperately
1:18.2	trying to be a groovy dead's Poets Society teacher who makes education fun. Not one of those squares who you write rude
1:23.4	things about in your exercise book. But even if you don't have children you'll be
1:27.0	aware of the economic and social consequences of schools closing their gates in
1:30.0	the middle of March. They're not just places for teaching and learning, they're a huge part of how society as a whole looks after its children.
1:35.6	Now there is talk of reopening them in phases starting in June after the May half term if the virus allows.
1:41.2	But how will that work and what is the cost to children and parents if in fact we end up losing the whole summer term?
1:46.0	My guest today is Laura McInani, education journalist, chief executive of Teacher Tapp, a governor and former teacher at an Academy school.
1:53.6	Hi Laura, how are you?
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