OK this is going to sound like a stealth boast so I'll get it out of the way early - my DD is good at maths. I'm very proud of her but just so pissed off at how children are put through these ridiculous tests at such a young age.
DD came home today and told me she'd "failed" the maths paper. Of course I said she can't have failed. It's not that sort of test. Anyway turns out she got 30/50 on the L6 paper. The top mark in the school. Obviously a fantastic achievement and I am so proud of her.
But no - she thinks she failed because she didn't get the L6.
My issue is why the fucking fuck is my 11 yr old daughter getting upset about "failing" when it's the last two weeks of primary and she should be practising her sack race skills.
If these tests are for the schools, government etc then why do they have to even tell the kids and parents. And if they're for the kids / parents, shouldn't there be some sort of sliding scale for achievement. Not just a cliff-edge pass / fail mark.
Anyone else's DCs just miss out on the next threshold up? Are they upset by it, or are most kids not bothered?
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SATs results today. I hate Gove!
auntiezzzzz · 09/07/2013 23:39
No Gove didn't introduce SATs nor invent ofsted, but he hasn't considered the effects these things have on DCs, parents or teachers.
I, think, they were both a necessary evil. My primary was pretty poor and my secondary had some truly awful teachers.
However, they have gone way beyond what was necessary to monitor and improve standards.
Most schools, now, are doing a pretty good job.
Ofsted are having to split hairs, to separate good from SM (DDs secondary school has gone from good, to satisfactory, to SM while the results have got better 
) Their old primary has gone from satisfactory to good because results have improved (true, but the class sizes are tiny,no way are these results statistically valid)
Many primaries get 50%+ L5, so L6 was brought back just to show schools were still improving.
Much of this down grading and upgrading of schools and pushing age inappropriate SATs levels is just noise. Very stressful, damage causing noise and Gove encourags it.
My DS was put in for the L6 Maths too (and some of the English - how does that work ?) - but he's away on a residential this week so not getting results just yet I guess. Actually, that's another thing, won't they be giving us, the parents, the results ? DD(14) also got to see her report before me this year as it was online (generally we either look at it together or I have a quick read first)
Anyway, DS is very level headed so think it's very unlikely he'd look on it as "failing" anything. We certainly wouldn't be giving him that impression at all, and would be very annoyed if anyone else did.
If you come top in the school you can't really have failed can you ?
I agree with Boys - how do you know the results? Isn't it the fault of the primary school for telling the children? My DS has been at 3 different primary schools, none of them has made any 'fuss' over Sats, no extra tuition needed, no playground stress, no competitive 'boasting' amongst parent.
I sometimes wonder if there is a parallel world on Mumsnet? 
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Secondary schools will do their own 'grading', just chill out about Sats. 
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