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PUPILS at a primary school near Chard took part in Walk to School week last month. Children at St Mary’s CE Primary Academy in Thorncombe walked, cycled, rode a scooter and ran to school from May 17 until 21. Walk to School week is a campaign to encourage pupils to travel to school sustainably. A spokesperson from Living Streets, the charity who have organised the Walk To School Week campaign, said: “Walking has so many benefits from physical to mental wellbeing; aiding concentration and creativity and creating safer, less polluted and more welcoming streets. “All that makes for a happy, healthy child set up for success in and out of the classroom.”
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If the academic year now ending has taught us anything, it’s that the public school system would rather indoctrinate than educate its students.
The school system was created to teach students academically and morally, and to prepare them for the next phase of life. The pandemic proved that most public schools will abandon this responsibility when given the opportunity.
Instead of returning to in-person instruction as soon as the science dictated, public school officials clung to superstitions and refused to ditch remote learning. We knew as early as May 2020 that COVID-19 is not a threat to children and that classrooms are not the super-spreader sites teachers feared they would be. The failure to reopen for the 2020-2021 school year is inexcusable, and blame can be laid squarely at the feet of the nation s teachers unions. But the implications go far beyond excoriating the unions.