Like many parents, the lockdowns of the last two years afforded Clare Page an unexpected insight into her daughter’s school lessons.
Her then 13-year-old — who we will call Isla — attended Haberdashers’ Aske’s Hatcham College, a 1,400-pupil state secondary school in South London. And with teaching taking place online, some of the material she saw unfolding on her daughter’s laptop at home was little short of horrifying.
Isla’s ‘lessons’ — 46-year-old designer Clare uses the term loosely — included