Schools demand exams re-mark

“Quote: "If you look at the results over the last 25 years they've been getting better & better every year.... Were all kids (including myself) thick in the late 80's when an A was quite a rariety?"

Results have been getting better each year because of a variety of factors, including:
children work far harder than they used to
teachers have been working in a more target based fashion
the national curriculum has improved some things, though made some worse
the internet has made it much easier to obtain required information
and it has probably helped to drive up reading standards.

I am well qualified, better than the Con boy Osborne anyway, but my child is far better than I was at the same age at just about everything.”

“All this talk of 11 plus exams etc is distracting from the real issue here, pupils who took the exam earlier in the year were given higher grades than those who too it later in the year and got the same marks.
That is plainly unfair and disadvantages the pupils that took the later exams and also affects the school results tables so it is right to challenge it and have all the later results adjusted equally or abandon this years results and remark the lot on an equal basis.”

“If you look at the results over the last 25 years they've been getting better & better every year.... Were all kids (including myself) thick in the late 80's when an A was quite a rariety?

I deal with a lot of students through my business & am often asked if we offer student discount... Yes 10% is my reply, 70% of them then ask how much the new price of the £10 product is.

Getting smarter or making sure everyone is a winner??”

“Either way they were thrown on the scrapheap at 11 or 13.

Absolutely dreadful waste of young talent.”

“^Lets keep re-assessing the papers until we get the results the (inadequate) pupils need and the
(below grade) teachers deserve.

Bob 491
No children were thrown on the scrapheap at 11 in the old days. At 13 they could get to either Grammar School or an intermediate school at 13 years of age.”

“garyb, do you often request personal information over the internet?”

“Eh Bob

Insults?

Good response to the debate - not a teacher by any chance are you?”

“Garyb, there never has been an 'everyone must pass culture' as you very well know. You are being remarkably dishonest.

But education is for everyone, not just for the favoured few.

And we do not want a return to those dreadful days when young children were thrown on the educational scrapheap at 11. Many children develop fast later than this, just as many develop earlier then flatline.

As a Con, you would know about flatlining more than most. But I agree, remedial english lessons are a must for those who can't spell accurately, and who can't use punctuation adequately, aren't they garyb.”

“I would be interested to see the difference in results after all the tests have been remarked.

Than Nguyen
http://tinyurl.com/9b9ch3o”

“An end to the 'everyone must pass' culture that is long overdue

When Universities have to run remedial classes in Maths & English something has gone very wrong”