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Stephen Pollard

Opinion

Who'll notice?

April 21, 2008 00:00
1 min read

This headline
Teachers' strike could shut 1000 schoolsreminds me of this story Belgium is heading for a record 150 days with no governmentBelgium was able to function perfectly well without its government. Given this sentence: Schools in the urban heartlands of the National Union of Teachers will be particularly affected perhaps I'd not be entirely flippant in suggesting that pupils might even be better off?



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