MP’s have finally got round to listening to parents and children, with the final realisation that the application of national curriculum testing in schools is having a poor effect on our children. The fact that regulations had ensured that teaching was reduced down to achieve parliaments test results (teaching to test is bandied as the term)and not to ensure that every child had the greatest benefit from useful education, seems to have been a surprise to them. The fact that people seem surprised that children are leaving school without real preperation for University, college or Employment, it almost seems as though people havent been to school because it hasn’t changed that much in the last two decade’s. One of the questions should perhaps be do you actually think that the colleges and universities are any different?
MP’s arent chucking the school child out with the bathwater, though, saying that a altered form of checking should be put into place where the responsibility of the school would be seperated from the application of student testing (I don’t actually know how that is possible as it will always come back to how well the pupils are doing within the classroom, which almost instantly makes the school managers find a way to allow their school to do better in the test). Schools do need a form of monitoring but maybe they should be aspiring to the algorythms of Google and how they give ranking to sites than a clumsy administered system that is open to manipulation, at the expense of our children.
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