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Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.
Over to them goes the problem of sorting the future of an inrush of students brandishing far better results than were expected.
In many cases, they are ridiculed, stereotyped and portrayed as somewhere between bigoted and racist.
Bright but disruptive pupils are allowed to stay while less able but equally troublesome children are dumped. It is illegal, but it happens nonetheless.
Ofqual came up with a technical solution to a complex problem, and yet it was not able to convince the rest of the education sector to back its judgement.