The students have gone back but let’s not forget how badly the government failed disadvantaged students and the challenging schools they go to over lockdown.
Privately educated students, like the majority of elected leaders’ children, received almost twice as much teaching time as those from disadvantaged backgrounds over lockdown and struggling schools are still waiting for the laptops they were promised almost a year down the line
Please check out, comment and share this poem to show your solidarity with ALL students and staff returning today and apply some pressure to a government that continues to ignore the worst-off schools and students because their own kids don’t go there.
Attention Poetry is a newly-formed spoken word label, aimed at producing hard-hitting poetry to help hold the powerful to account.
We believe that the pandemic has brought into sharp focus the government’s inadequate support of the state education sector during lockdown and before. Would it be different if the politician’s children attended these schools?
A Twitter-friendly video is also currently available to view on the @Attention Poetry Channel.
Myself, Sam Foster, and Miss Lawson through me, can be contacted using the contact details below.
Contact: Sam Foster | swfoster21@hotmail.comI@attentionpoetry
