Thread: students to miss Sats
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Old 10-05-2010, 19:52   #22
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Re: students to miss Sats
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Originally Posted by Ed2020 View Post
Sorry - Opera Mini didn't handle that post at all well. I'll try again!

I meant to ask why you believe the teachers are boycotting the exams, if the interests of the children is not their priority.
Some, I would imagine, are concerned that many of their students will not pass their exams. If they had their students' best interests in mind, they would not have put them through the revision processes, incurring the stress that they say it places them under.

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In my opinion the problem is not the missed exam, it's the amount of time spent preparing for exams which are unnecessary and which do not lead to any meaningful qualification at the end of it. All of the time spent preparing for these exams (and I don't just mean Sats) is time taken away from real education.
What do you think should replace them? How are parents (and just as important, the DCFS), supposed to judge how the schools are performing?

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I know several teachers who loved their job but have left because they simply don't feel that they're doing any teaching anymore. It's all about exam results, league tables and statistics. It doesn't benefit the children, the schools, the schools/colleges/universities they subsequently move to, or employers once they leave the education system.
Yet so many more seem to cope quite well.
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