To wonder how a Government can publish a SATs paper by accident, twice??

[ShipwreckedAndComatose]

Now it's the year 6 SPAG test

The whole testing has been appallingly badly handled and it's our kids who are in the middle of it!

Y6 is a complete waste of learning imo whilst schools are desperately trying to push kids through a hoop because it makes the school look good / bad. Kids waste so much time practising instead of learning, and then do v little with the 6weeks after its over. It's such a monumental waste of teaching time it makes me mad. This is now even happening in Y2. Sorry not answering question, but i hope it is sabotage. It encourages me to think people really care. It's worth getting a job at Pearson, I reckon.

Ha- they're blaming the leak in a rogue marker now.(BBCNews)

Is that like a good marker whose gone bad?!

Sounds like a rapper!!

It's just been revealed that it was a 'rouge marker' who leaked it .

I don't think you can blame this one on the DfE.

They've made a myriad of cock ups, but I'm not sure this one is theirs.

Errr the Government hasnt published it - the exam board has.

I think it is a form of sabotage by someone who doesn't agree with the SATs.

Wonder who it was??

YY tp sabotage.

I don't understand how it could be a rogue marker? Surely a rogue marker would publish more widely than on the Pearson/edexcel gateway? Assuming you were a marker who had received a paper copy of the test to familiarise yourself with it, why would you then sign into a site which requires a password(therefore identifying yourself)? Surely you'd post it on Reddit or set up a blog and link to it via Twitter or something.

Something stinks here ...

The whole premise behind the thread is false -as would be apparent to anyone who could be bothered to read the article. First time - published in error. Second time, leaked by someone on the inside.

Something stinks here ...

Yes - OP's agenda.

First time - published in error. Second time, leaked by someone on the inside.

I'm not getting how that makes it any better?

Jelly one subversive employee does not an incompetent Government make, which is what the OP is trying to imply.

Dr Harold Shipman killed many of his patients - does that mean that the Government is crap because it couldn't control an NHS employee?

It may have been on a password protected site only seen by markers. But those markers will in large part be teachers! Most examiners for exam boards are teachers earning extra cash!

I'd assumed sabotage of some sort .....

Dr Harold Shipman killed many of his patients - does that mean that the Government is crap because it couldn't control an NHS employee?

Well, yes ultimately.

Hmm what to do then jelly. Shipman was active over a 20+ year period, during which time we had both Conservative and Labour governments. So if as you argue they were ultimately responsible who should I vote for in order to ensure there are not more Harold Shipmans?

It's only a matter of time before someone mentions Hitler.

...that'll be me then.

Never really took much notice of SATS results. Secondary teachers may consider them a guideline, but will make their own judgements.

The trouble is that the results will be used to push schools into becoming academies, so we all need to take notice of what is going on.

They said on the radio that the problem was that at this stage the papers were only supposed to be viewable by a select few, but instead they put them on the website where they could be seen by all the markers. The report on the BBC website says "The Sats answers had been mistakenly published on Monday on a password-protected website for test markers, schools minister Nick Gibb told MPs." I assume they weren't meant to do that until after the tests were over. Therefore it is down to rather more than just one rogue marker.

Hmm what to do then jelly. Shipman was active over a 20+ year period, during which time we had both Conservative and Labour governments. So if as you argue they were ultimately responsible who should I vote for in order to ensure there are not more Harold Shipmans?

It's usually the best of a bad bunch anyway. The one that seems most competent at the time I suppose.

*It's only a matter of time before someone mentions Hitler.

...that'll be me then.*

I'm surprised Corbyn hasn't been blamed!

The Guardian comments section has a fair amount of blame for subversive teachers and the NUT for this breach but surely Pearsons were the ones who screwed up by putting the exam answers up early. That makes it their fault, not a rogue marker who happened to just tell other people about it??

If it was sabotage then three cheers for whoever did it. The more sabotage the better with regard to the absolute clusterfuck the government is currently creating. And yes, I have an 11-year-old doing SATs at the moment.

The people in charge of education currently are utterly, utterly clueless. Yet another example of this is that schools are being chivvied to make lessons 'less teacher-directed' and there is all this guff about children 'taking ownership of their learning' - which is not, actually a bad thing in itself, but when it is being enforced simultaneously with these awful, rigid, nit-picking, over-complicated tests then you have either got a government department where every twat with a hobbyhorse is allowed to apply it, and no inter-department communication, or an active agenda to fuck up every school's results so they can be sold off to bent academy chains.

It was sabotage. Putting it on a password protected website is not the same as making it available to the public. One person alone is responsible for that, and they're not in the government.

That's not to say I think the government are doing a good job on Education. Far from it. But you can't simply blame them for stuff like this. It devalues your message when you need to blame them for stuff they've actually fucked up on. No one will be listening by then, because by then you'll be blaming them for the poor weather.