JEREMY Corbyn today announced he will abolish all primary school SATs tests if he gets into No10. The Labour leader said the exams are giving kids nightmares and “leaving them in floods of tears”. …
JEREMY Corbyn today announced he will abolish all primary school SATs tests if he gets into No10.PA:Press AssociationHe warned the tests for seven and 11 year-olds are leaving children stressed and teachers overworked.The radical policy would be one of the biggest shake-ups of the education system in a generation.
Unveiling his plan at the National Education Union’s conference in Liverpool today, he was set to say: “We need to prepare children for life, not just for exams.” “SATs and the regime of extreme pressure testing are giving young children nightmares and leaving them in floods of tears. “I meet teachers of all ages and backgrounds who are totally overworked and overstressed. It’s just wrong.”He was set to tell the conference: “Teachers get into the profession because they want to inspire children, not pass them along an assembly line.”
Schools Minister, Nick Gibb, condemned Jeremy Corbyn’s plan to end school testing. He said today: "These tests have been pivotal in raising standards in our primary schools. That’s why Labour governments led by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown supported them."It would enormously damage our education system, and undo decades of improvement in children’s reading and maths. Labour plan to keep parents in the dark.
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