Your childs education limited because of school testing.

MP’s have at last started to listen to parents and children, with the final realisation that the application of national curriculum testing in schools is having a detramental effect on our children. The fact that regulations had ensured that teaching was narrowed down to achieve parliaments test results (teaching to test is bandied as the term)and not to make sure that all children had the most benefit from practical education, it appears to have been a surprise to them. The fact that people seem aghast that children are leaving school without real preperation for University, college or Employment, it almost seems like people havent been in education because it hasn’t changed that much in the last 20 years. One of the questions should be do you really believe 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 educational establishment would be partitioned from the application of student testing (I don’t actually see how that is possible as it will always come back to how well the pupils are doing within the classroom, which instantly makes the school managers find a way to allow their school to excel in the test). Don’t get me wrong schools need a form of monitoring but maybe they should be looking to the algorythms of Google and how they give ranking to sites than a clumsy administered process that is open to manipulation, at the expense of our children.

Boarding schools and Independent schools uk are some of the best in the world.

By David Harland
Published: 5/16/2008
 
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