Alas poor exams...I knew them well.
WHEN New Labour romped to power all those years ago they did so on a banner of education, education, education.
I say tosh, tosh, tosh.
My eldest has just finished his SATS, another batch of pretty pointless yardstick exams that serve no purpose but to get children used to the idea of taking exams.
He is fairly confident he did well (always a bad sign) and I know he did his best, but when I quizzed him about the English exam I was flabbergasted.
"Yes we did Shakespeare's The Tempest. It was an essay type question and I think I did OK," he said.
"We only had to do two scenes of it though," he added almost as an afterthought.
How typical of the dumbing down that is pervading our schools that we can't even get children to read the whole play.
I hear that some theatre companies are offering to visit schools to perform condensed versions of The Bard's works...what a national disgrace!
I always though it was just an age thing that made me think exams were getting easier, but now I know it's all part of the all consuming target mentality wrecking our society.
Whatever happened to quality?
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It was replaced with league tables, points systems, organised cheating, teaching by numbers, oh and more work at home. I'm not looking forward to my child's schooling as he gets older, I feel I'm scheduled for a few run-ins with the super-duper new education system and its stick-bearers.