keeping educated

Earlier in March this year, the quickly spreading virus that we now know as the coronavirus became even more visible in Europe and eventually the UK. This left the UK government with no choice but to shut down schools on a national level. The UK was not first to close our schools and was certainly not the last. By March 27th this year, 1.5 billion children around the world had been affected by school / university / other forms of education closures. This meant that children had to resort to other forms of education such as virtual learning , home - schooling or even no education at all.  However for two year groups in secondary schools around the UK , this would have an impact on their education more than any other year group. School closures meant that year 11's would not be able to sit their GCSEs and that year 13's would not be able to sit their A-level exams. For year 13's who had opted to continue on to further education, the effects of the virus on their A-levels woul...

Since 2013, #blacklivesmatter has been trying its best to change the world for the better. On twitter alone, the hashtag has been used roughly 48 million times since it started after the acquittal of Trayvon Martin's murderer.  Now, another old hashtag is finally getting its spotlight in the mainstream media and being heard more and more often. This hashtag became more popular after the killings of George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks in May and June earlier this year, as well as the many other killings that could've been prevented if other workers, e.g. mental health specialists had dealt with the situation instead. This hashtag has nearly 400 thousand posts on Instagram and even more on several other social media sites. This hashtag is #defundthepolice. However, although many people are for it and pushing for it to happen, even more people seem to people disagree with the hashtag. Reasons for this could be a lack of information, misinformation being spread online and uneducated o...