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Wales Online
Wales Online
National
Abbie Wightwick

Absences, staffing crisis, and lost skills: The major problems facing Wales' schools in wake of Covid

Shock, worry, and fear. The range of emotions when schools were ordered to shut their doors almost exactly two years ago were extreme and unusual.

Before Covid education worked to strict timetables. Schools were places people could rely on to be open and operate in familiar ways. That, as with so many other parts of our lives, was upended when they closed in March 2020.

We turn to teachers for answers. At the start of the pandemic they had as many questions about what was happening as anyone. At that point few people had heard the terms "online and remote learning" and many children did not have devices to log into it anyway.

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