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Watch the response when Ofsted starts rocking up and giving grades again after all this. Will be like a perfect storm: schools in most deprived areas who for years had inadequate funding, then get all their results pulled down, then have Ofsted publicly shame them too.
The bias against these schools - these communities - has long been there, but now the grievance will be supercharged with what's happened these last few months. And in these communities, the massively enhanced role for the school as an effective social service during lockdown
the extra safeguarding, the food deliveries, the digital poverty, the growing unemployment. If Ofsted then rocks up and publicly shames those schools, those communities, who have already been kicked from pillar to post, then there'll be revolt - we desperately need reform.
It can't go on. Up to now, the response has been to press the pause button with a view to everything return back to its previous form at some point down the line. This is no longer either a credible or desirable aim. We need change. We deserve change.
