Boris Johnson’s Next Big Test Is Getting Britain Back to School
After a fiasco over examinations and the economy in a mess, reopening schools is the country’s biggest priority.
Boris Johnson poses with his arms out-stretched in a classroom in Upminster, London, on Aug. 10.
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has vowed to get children back to school next month, but there is a sense of dread that the country is walking into another crisis after all that has gone wrong with his handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
However traumatic the fiasco over exam grading for teenagers, it only involved two academic years. The start of the school year affects every child in a country that recorded more deaths than anywhere else in Europe.