The government should continue to closely scrutinise what teachers do and set them challenging targets otherwise how can we trust this group of people that don't approprove of tests. It could be argued that getting rid of the Key Stage 3 SATs is the worst thing that can happen. Now children will go through all of their secondary school education without any real waying of checking the the teachers are doing their jobs properly in between their extensive holidays.
I was having a chat with my husband in the car on the way back from the south coast on Sunday about how our respective parents gave us support and helped us choose our O’ Level, A’ Level and university subjects. My parents did a lot of research and went to see my tutor at school to make sure that I would make the correct choice. My husband’s parents did nothing to help him at all and just let him make his own decision even when he was too young to do so. He was lucky to come out of it with a degree at all. His parents even got the opportunity to send their 3 boys to an excellent boarding school for free but turned it down on the advice of a PE teacher from their comprehensive that said that ‘the bright ones always make it’. I was gob smacked to hear that my mother in law decided not to get involved in her children’s education and left it literally to chance. Did your parents give you any support? I know that my husband wishes that he had had help from his parents; do you wish you had too?
As a parent of a boy who was not only doing his Sats but his GCSE's course work at the same time it is far to much work and pressure . The teachers at my sons school told the kids not to worry about the Sats and to concentrate on his gcse's instead of their sats anyway.At some point he was taking Gcses mocks as well .His school was very good about it and helped with extra lessons for the ones that could not cope,it is to late for my son ,but I think about the other kids coming along and hope it will be made easier for them now.
they should get rid of the ones for 10 / 11 and 6 / 7 year olds too as the sats are completely useless as they make the curriculum about passing tests and not about education development or the love of learning.
