'Stuff of nonsense' Scots private school hit out at covid closures and call for immediate return to classroom
dailyrecord.co.ukschool has called for the immediate return of pupils to the classroom while branding Covid restrictions on kids “the stuff of nonsense”.Rod Grant, who runs the Clifton Hall School in Edinburgh, penned an impassioned plea entitled “children no longer matter” and said youngsters were fast becoming lockdown’s “collateral damage”.The head claimed he had seen a dramatic spike in pupils self harming and contemplating suicide at his Newbridge school, which charges almost £13,000 a year for seniors, and asked why climate change, poverty and health crises like obesity had not been met with the same response as coronavirus.The teacher of more than 30 years said: “Why haven’t we taken these issues as seriously as we have a virus which is likely to end.
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