Comments by "David Getling" (@DavidGetling) on "Mercy Muroki: Never again should the UK ever accept the shutting of schools" video.

You know Mercy, what amazes me the most is how parents just sat on their arses and accepted this in the first case. Right from the start good, honest teachers like me were saying that cancelling exams would be very unfair, and that online learning was a stinking pile of crap. Even without having any children of my own I feel terribly sorry for what's been done to them, but their own parents didn't have the courage and decency to take to the streets and force the government to back down on this. Even animals defend their young better than most of these parents!
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@Aquarius. I didn't say there were a lot of good honest teachers out there. If most had felt a "duty of care" then they would have prevented school closures and exam cancelations. But as most don't give a damn about the kids they teach parents have to step up to the plate.
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@Aquarius. If all those parents had taken to the streets at the start, close together and no masks, then the government would have decided very quickly that keeping schools open and keeping exams was by far the lesser of two evils.
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