The head of Ofsted has issued a sharp warning to Boris Johnson over plans for longer school days, shorter holidays and five-term years.
Tory Gavin Williamson today confirmed the three drastic options were on the table as part of an 18-month catch-up plan for kids.
But Ofsted chief inspector Amanda Spielman said similar ideas have not been a “long-standing success in the past” and “I don’t think many of those have persisted”.
She said kids have been “lonely, bored, miserable" in lockdown and should get the “full ration of schooling”, but the government must "learn from" experiments in the past.
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