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Lockdown legacy

EDUCATION

LOCKDOWN saw privileged schools adapt to remote teaching in a jiffy while poorly resourced schools battled with a lack of devices and data.

Alex Lutz came from the former category, not missing any lessons in the transition from being in a classroom to looking at a screen. Thanks to the influence of Amy Brown, her English teacher at St John’s Diocesan School for Girls in Pietermaritzburg, she realised the restrictions imposed by Covid could have devastating effects

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