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PARENTS in Gwent have been responding to news that secondary schools and colleges in Wales will be switching to home learning from Monday to allow students to self-isolate before Christmas. The Welsh Government insisted last Monday there was no reason to shut schools early, but after pressure from unions and parents - and councils in Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly deciding to shift to online learning early - there has now been a national shift in position. Minister for education Kirsty Williams said the decision was taken after the chief medical officer for Wales Frank Atherton advised the government to move students to online learning “as soon as possible”, which Ms Williams said was part of a “national effort to reduce [coronavirus] transmission”.