Online learning is not so simple for poorer pupils | Letters

A family that does not have enough money to buy food is not likely to be able to buy a laptop, writes Jill Wallis. Plus Melian Mansfield says adventure playgrounds and other outdoor, out-of-school play schemes must also be allowed to continue

While I agree with your correspondents about the impossibility of keeping pupils and staff safe in schools (Letters, 2 November), the suggestion of sending them home for online teaching is, for many, not a viable option. Shona Nsoatabe refers to how private schools’ use of this method was described as “privileged”, but suggests that state schools are now ready to follow suit. The schools may be ready, but many pupils are not.

Unless a child lives in a home where space, time, quiet and support are available, and appropriate equipment is on hand and not being competed for by siblings and parents also working from home, she will have no access to such teaching and will be further disadvantaged.

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