Home schooling boosts parents' interest in teaching as a career

Survey of 2,000 people in lockdown across the UK also finds a growing respect for teachers among parents of school-age childrenCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSchool closures have turned the UK into a nation of temporary teachers since the coronavirus lockdown – and that may have inspired some people to seek new careers in the classroom, according to a new survey.Now Teach, the charity co-founded by the former journalist Lucy Kellaway, encourages older workers to change careers, and has found that the lockdown has increased the status of school teachers among the population at large, as parents have come to appreciate the joys of designing scientific experiments that impart knowledge rather than just make a mess in the kitchen. Continue reading…
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