Abolish SATs for Ever
Parents and pupils will welcome the announcement to abolish Key Stage 3 SATs tests if only the Secretary of State was a big enough man to admit the true story SATs are and always have been a disaster. Made to furbish League Tables for Government propaganda they have cause damage to the curriculum stress to parents and children and of course teachers. We have to trust our teachers who assess on a daily basis and more so termly how can they teach if they do not. Ed Balls have three reason for continuing SATs one to ensure parents have the information on schools they need to choose a secondary school, well if only it were that simple we can all dream about choice but thousands of families will know choice is a dream so one reason goes out. Secondly he wants heads and teachers to understand how pupils are progressing if they need SATs results (if they ever appear) to do that then they are in the wrong profession. Thirdly so the public can hold Government and Local government accountable I will never be convinced parents in Newcastle need to know where a school in Devon sits on the League Tables. For those who have no children in the education system it is not an issue and those whose children have left education they will know the truth this is an area Government have totally failed in schools teach to the tests rather than the broad curriculum so lets be finished with the SATs and give schools time to teach not fill in endless Government forms.
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So which parents of junior children welcome the continuation of SATs.
anyone know how to get hold of Margaret Morrissey? I work for a local newspaper and would love to get her opinion on something. If anyone know her please could you ask her to contact Vanessa at news@pickupnewspapers.co.uk I’d be so grateful.
Thank You for any help.
All we seem to do is homework I have three children 12, 10 and 8. All we do each evening is spellings times tables reading and my 12 year daughter does about 2 - 3 hours each evening also saturdays and sundays. To be honest it is getting to much for all of us.
Why cannot objective tests, eg multiple choice, be used to test whether children know or don’t know something? These are easily marked and pupils can mark each others’ saving teachers the trouble of marking. That would then satisfy the NUT slogan of “good for children, good for teachers”.
Every child and their parent would easily know how well or badly they did after they complete a test and are given marks out of 100 according to how many questions they get right or how many marks out of 100 their essay deserved. These could be averaged termly and annually and the child’s position in class recorded so that its performance relative to other children would also be known.
I see no reason why both essay and multiple choice cannot be used for EVERY subject! The former can be used for the “As Every Fool Knows” stock topics. The latter can be used to test a pupil’s knowledge of the ENTIRE syllabus, which might actually be harder to shine at!
This is not just a weird and wonderful idea I came up with. Tiffin Girls Grammar School in Kingston Upon Thames had this system on display as an historic exhibit.
What is wrong with reviving this, I would like to know?
It would make life easier for teachers too because they too would know what it is they are supposed to be doing, and everyone would be happy.
Andromeda that is far to sensible and would actually help us all. Promblem is the politicians could not use it for spin so lets call them out it is time to find out if they really care about our children or just making a good headline for themselves
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