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Sats For Seven-Year-Olds Set To Be Scrapped
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I am not a parent, but if I were, I would want to know how well my child is doing at school.
But if they are not tested, how am I to know ?
I am not a parent, but if I were, I would want to know how well my child is doing at school.
But if they are not tested, how am I to know ?
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The point of Sats is to give the illusion that the Government cares about education, which it clearly doesn't.
They give away their complete misunderstanding about the way children are educated by the name they give their tests ' Standard Attainment' - there is nothing 'standard' about any child in any school anywhere in the world.
The notion of comparing schools is utterly pointless.
If you live in Durham, and find that your child's school comes up short against a school in Oxford - what are you going to do? Relocate? Complain? Accept it? Worry about it? The result for all of these will be the same.
What you should do is say to yourself, Oxford has a far higher average of professional people living in nice big houses and paying for private tuition for their kids - there would be something seriously wrong if their pupils were not achieving better than ours.
So I will think only - is my child happy? Is my child achieving up to his or her own ability? And I can get all that information on Open Night when I speak to the teachers.
Other than that, I don't give a flying one about 'comparisons' with other children or schools. because I am only raising my child, and when they leave school, my interest in the education system will cease instantly.
Education is a vote catcher - we all have an opinion on it because we have all been to school.
The government doesn't care about education, or children (they call them 'our children' because it sounds caring, and inclusive) - it cares about your votes.
If the government could get votes by putting money into Premier League football clubs, it would - children are irrelevant - they don't vote.
They give away their complete misunderstanding about the way children are educated by the name they give their tests ' Standard Attainment' - there is nothing 'standard' about any child in any school anywhere in the world.
The notion of comparing schools is utterly pointless.
If you live in Durham, and find that your child's school comes up short against a school in Oxford - what are you going to do? Relocate? Complain? Accept it? Worry about it? The result for all of these will be the same.
What you should do is say to yourself, Oxford has a far higher average of professional people living in nice big houses and paying for private tuition for their kids - there would be something seriously wrong if their pupils were not achieving better than ours.
So I will think only - is my child happy? Is my child achieving up to his or her own ability? And I can get all that information on Open Night when I speak to the teachers.
Other than that, I don't give a flying one about 'comparisons' with other children or schools. because I am only raising my child, and when they leave school, my interest in the education system will cease instantly.
Education is a vote catcher - we all have an opinion on it because we have all been to school.
The government doesn't care about education, or children (they call them 'our children' because it sounds caring, and inclusive) - it cares about your votes.
If the government could get votes by putting money into Premier League football clubs, it would - children are irrelevant - they don't vote.
"The Department for Education is proposing a new assessment for pupils when they first start school instead"
*Deep shudder*
christ on a bike, why?
My little girl is in her second term at school. She can't read, wouldnt have a clue about maths (or "number sentences" as they call them in school nowadays). I am (reasonably) happy for these things to come when they come. Her teacher tells me she is making progress, making friends, and i can see she loves school, which is enough for now
*Deep shudder*
christ on a bike, why?
My little girl is in her second term at school. She can't read, wouldnt have a clue about maths (or "number sentences" as they call them in school nowadays). I am (reasonably) happy for these things to come when they come. Her teacher tells me she is making progress, making friends, and i can see she loves school, which is enough for now
bednobs - exactly!
Any parent only cares about their own child for the time that child is in school, and after that, their interest in education ceases permanently.
The notion that parents care - or even understand comparisons between schools is utterly bogus.
When our house was burgled twenty years ago, I asked the policeman who came round if he would mind sending a policeman from the Devon and Cornwall Force - about three hundred miles away - because their clear-up stats were better than the Staffordshire Force. He laughed. So did I.
Any parent only cares about their own child for the time that child is in school, and after that, their interest in education ceases permanently.
The notion that parents care - or even understand comparisons between schools is utterly bogus.
When our house was burgled twenty years ago, I asked the policeman who came round if he would mind sending a policeman from the Devon and Cornwall Force - about three hundred miles away - because their clear-up stats were better than the Staffordshire Force. He laughed. So did I.
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