Physical spaces make a difference to education. There are small but fairly reliable correlations between the quality of the buildings where students learn and student behaviour, attendance and academic achievement.
In particular, inadequate buildings are linked to poorer outcomes: pupils learning in crumbling classrooms do worse. Students are negatively affected when limited or inappropriate space hinders teaching or learning.
Pupils at schools with Raac, who are now packed into temporary classrooms for subjects like science, or who have lost the use of their library, will be currently experiencing such obstructions to their education.
