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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Anna Davis

Pupils lose 300,000 hours in London’s ‘most strike-hit schools’

Parents at the “most strike-hit” group of schools in London have called for an end to the dispute that has seen children lose more than 300,000 hours of learning.

Pupils at the Prendergast schools in Lewisham will have missed more than three weeks due to a “disproportionate” string of strikes by teachers over plans to turn the schools into an academy trust, campaigners said. Some children at the five schools, which are part of the Leathersellers’ Federation, are only attending school on Mondays and Fridays.

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