With an unsung hero rating of eight out of 10, teachers score as highly as doctors and nurses on cards in a new Top Trumps pack.
Released on Monday, the pack “lauds and applauds” key and essential workers on the coronavirus pandemic frontline.
The cards feature 30 different professions - from politicians and journalists to pest controllers, midwives and sea merchants - who are each given ratings in four categories.
Claire Simon, from Top Trumps, says: “Every single frontline key worker is, of course, a heroine and hero and would each score 10 (or even 11) out of 10 by any reckoning if we had devised a hero category.
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“By creating an unsung heroes category, we have ensured varying marks, in keeping with the game’s core classic and its unique and much-loved branding.”
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However, when it comes to fashion and street style, teachers score only two out of 10, and they also score a two in the “gadgets and gismos” category - perhaps surprising given all the online learning taking place at the moment.
Other high-scoring unsung heroes are binmen and binwomen, who score nine, along with couriers, while police score a seven. Top of the unsung heroes category are “partners of key workers”, who score 10 out of 10.
Ms Simon added: “From our research, which has been intensively conducted over the six weeks, partners of key workers came out top in this section. There are an estimated one and a half million partners of key workers in Britain so that’s a lot of unsung heroes and heroines.”
“Many of the public we spoke to pointed out that partners, too, are putting their lives on the line, albeit less directly. As well as being there physically, they are providing emotional support. For that reason, we listed partners as key workers.”
Politicians score just one out of 10 in the style section, while journalists only manage five out of 10.
