SATs

[were_gopher]

Not a good morning.  It's the last day of SATs and the Bunny had to be half dragged to school crying that she didn't want to go.  Silly girl never told us about it or how worried she was about the whole thing. 

Personally I think it's stupid to put them through this at such a young age but thats what you get when government thinks it can tell experts how to do their job.

Lots of attention and cuddles for the weekend I think.

Comments

[antonia-tiger.livejournal.com]

One of the things about the testing is that it gives the schools some evidence to strike back with at the politicians.

As in, "We get a lot of disadvantaged kids in this school--look at these test results--and we need more resources to get good results for the pupils leaving."

My brother was in that line of work when he worked at Leeds University in the late Eighties: it was a very different system, and voluntary. Schools would volunteer because the assessment gave them evidence of where the problems were.

Now it's all about government benchmarks, and a totally different game. As he said after the time he visited the Aviary Place slanshack, kids from a house with that many books are always going to break the tests.

[hrrunka]

Aye. The game shifted when they started using the SAT results to compile the school league tables. Now the SATs are seen as a test of the school...