Parents are rushing to secure the services of tutors for the children
On Monday, Rae Burns made a decision she never imagined she would make. Over the Christmas holidays, the mother-of-three had suspected that surging rates of Covid-19 would force her children’s schools to close again.
The first lockdown was hard enough: Burns, 36, who was awaiting a hip replacement at the time, struggled with the rigmarole of supervising her three sons – aged eight, 10 and 13 – while also trying to manage her business from home.
The Brighton-based family is fairly academic (the boys’ father is a Cambridge graduate who works at Deutsche Bank), but the parents still found themselves having to brush up their own Maths skills before trying to explain it to their sons. “It was just so intense,” she recalls.