Ie. teachers who choose to enter children for easy BTECs instead of GCSE, because they worry about league tables and think that its easier to get a middle to low ablity to child to pass the BTEC than get 5 GCSEs.
Many children who want to do 3 seperate sciences at GCSE are not being given the chance. Although a child can do A-level from the basis of double science, its more work. Surely a child who can achieve a level 6 in science by the end of year 9 should be given the option whether they do triple science or not.
Many primary schools do not bother preparing children for level 6 SAT papers. Or they ruin the entire year 6 making children do practice papers for their SATs. Ironically the children get less of an education as teachers refuse to take the risk of doing excess revising.
I think that schoools need to be encouraged to allow children to take risks and not see failure as the end of the world. Children need to realise that its better to try at something and fail than not to try. I feel that children should be taught how to cope with failure than be shielded from it.
I am not suggesting that children should be pushed to attempt things where there is no hope. However I think that many schools do not take risks because they are obcessed with their position in the league tables.