Last round of strikes, based on what you had told us, we predicted strikes would have the greatest effect in London. Readers lucky (?) enough to dwell in the Big Smoke may have seen our prediction make the front page of the Evening Standard. We said a quarter of schools in the capital would close entirely.
The actual figure, according to DfE data: 23.9%. This illustrates how your participation allows Teacher Tapp to show what’s really going on in schools… sometimes before it even happens.
A month has passed, and neither government nor unions have budged. Next up, regional strikes. Loosely, the North on Tuesday, Midlands and East on Wednesday, London and the South on Thursday. (The editors will not be entering into any correspondence as to where the North/Midlands/South begin and end.)
So what can we predict? We asked who you expected would be in school: primary teachers we asked what proportion of pupils; secondary teachers what year groups.
