Scrap GCSEs & A-Levels, say 2000 Headteachers

TODAY on the Lockdown Sceptic's website edited by Toby Young, reported:

As night follows day, headteachers are now demanding that GCSEs and A-levels be scrapped again this year. Why? To protect their staff from being infected with a virus that, if you’re under-70 and healthy, is less deadly than seasonal flu....

Head teachers have warned that GCSE and A-level exams cannot go ahead this summer after plans for reopening schools for the spring term were thrown into chaos.

Most primary schools in England are due to open tomorrow, followed by a phased start for secondary schools a week later with GCSE and A-level pupils returning first. The Education Secretary, Gavin Williamson, still insists that teenagers must sit the national exams.

However, a network of 2,000 head teachers in 80 local authorities will today insist that teachers, pupils and parents should not be put at risk of contracting COVID-19 in order to protect the GCSE and A-level timetables.

“Wider public health, pupil and staff safety should be prioritised ahead of examinations,” said the head teachers from the WorthLess? campaign group.

“Public safety should not be risked or driven by an inflexible pursuit of GCSE and A-levels.”

Surely Toby Young, the editor of the Lockdown Sceptic's website, should support this downgrading of A-levels given his own historic poor performance when doing them years ago?

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