This test has just one question
…and the question is: What planet is he on?!
Testing ’should be intensified’
The pressure on England’s teachers to get pupils through tests and improve school results should be intensified, said Education Secretary Alan Johnson. Mr Johnson told a committee of MPs league tables were “absolutely the right thing” for raising standards. Teachers’ unions have repeatedly called for an end to “high stakes” testing and to the compilation of league tables. Mr Johnson told the education select committee he backed “the whole kit and caboodle” of school accountability. That included Ofsted inspections, national tests and exams and league tables. He added: “If anything, we need to intensify that rather than relax.” He said standards of reading, writing and maths had improved dramatically in primary schools since Labour came to power.
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It is exactly that sort of attitude that made us take Sam out of school. The P6 teachers were so consumed with getting as many kids through the 11plus as possible (so t hat they and the school looked good) that anyone who wasn’t going to pass it got completely neglected whilst the concentrated on all the kids who could pass if they were pushed hard enough.
Well he is from my neck of the woods and no one in education is on this planet here cos despite all this testing we have the worst schools in the country.