Defenders of the government claim that by going with the teacher’s estimates, the attainment gap would narrow artificially – like grades of kids who go to the ‘best’ schools are not inflated by the favourable socioeconomic circumstances in which they are achieved.

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During this pandemic, millions of middleclass professionals, landlords and business owners have been bailed-out by government. Health professionals have been fast-tracked into work. Governments have gone to extreme lengths to lighten the load of lockdown on society’s winners.

But working-class kids possibly getting a B when they should have gotten a C could tear the fabric of the spacetime continuum, apparently.

Sorry Swinney – it’s a big fat ‘F’ from me