To want to shout 'it's not the marking, it's the boundaries'...

[GetDownNesbitt]

At the TV/ radio/ newspapers/Internet every five minutes?

There is no evidence that GCSE English marking has been inaccurate. Markers don't give grades. Exam boards take the marks, set boundaries and allocate grades using those boundaries.

I need to take a deep breath, don't I?

Similar for us Dominodonkey - we got nobbled on the 40% rule & the moving boundaries on CAs.

Novac: there are three different spellings of 'they're'. Just educating you!

yawn.

You can "yawn" all you like novack, but I think it rather that you are criticising teachers for "failing to educate" students and advocating labelling complaining children as failures if their English (for example) is not up to scratch, when you make such basic errors in your own writing.

Or alternatively maybe I just don't bother being pedantic about correcting every predictive text that is offered on my phone when I'm passing a little bit of time on an internet thread. One search found that the pedant has posts with spelling errors all over the site, and, as we all know people who deflect the point of the thread to try to be smart arse pedants have invariably lost the argument of the thread.

As we all know, the state sector teachers will find something else to whine about next week.

Your prejudice is showing, novack

Still, at least there are people out there who are taking the teachers' whines seriously and looking properly into this matter.