Home schooling: Family with private and state school children highlight differing live lesson provision
St Leonards School (left) and Madras College, both in St Andrews.
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A mother with children at private and state schools fears that a lack of live lessons is putting children at council-run schools at a “serious disadvantage”.
Linda Holt’s son attends St Leonards School, in St Andrews, while her daughter goes to the town’s Madras College.
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