School testing reducing the quality of our childrens education.
MPs have at last started to listen to parents and children, with the eventual dawning that the application of national curriculum testing in schools is having a detramental effect on our children. Obviously the fact that regulations had ensured that teaching was narrowed down to achieve parliaments test results (teaching to test seems to be the term)and not to make sure that every child had the most benefit from useful education, it appears to have been a shock to them. People seem aghast that children are leaving school without real preperation for University, college or Employment, it almost seems like people havent been to school because it hasnt changed that much in the last couple of decades. One of the questions should be do you really think that the colleges and universities are any different?
Members of Parliament arent throwing 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 educational establishment would be seperated from the application of student testing (I dont actually see how that is possible as it will nearly always come down to how well the pupils are doing within the classroom, which almost instantly makes the school managers look for a way to allow their school to do better in the test). Dont get me wrong schools 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 awkward administered process that is open to manipulation, at the expense of our children.
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