OBVIOUSLY in-person, face-to-face learning far outweighs the remote learning aspect pupils have endured during the past pandemic months. Social interaction with peers is a high policy priority, elevating the risk of delayed social and emotional development of the disadvantaged and least privileged especially.
Soul searching needs to be endured by the government as workloads, salaries and shortages were instrumental in engendering a teacher stoppage towards the end of last year, the first in a decade.
