School displaying DD's attainment levels on the wall

[Erinsboroughrocks]

DD is in y6 and working towards her SATs. The teacher has a chart on the wall with each child's name listed. Next to each name is a colour for each subject. Green is working above, orange is working at and red is working below. All the children know what the colours mean. DD doesn't like having this up and I feel a bit uneasy about it. WIBU to ask them to take it down (or instead put up a board of colour coded teacher observations in the staffroom 😉)?

YANBU. It is demotivating for the lower achievers. And some bright kids can be incredibly tactless (whether intentional or not).

It's important for the children to know their attainment levels and what they're aiming for but it absolutely shouldn't be on public display. Please do talk to the school.

I think this is appalling and totally unacceptable.YANBU. Each child's progress and level should be between them and the teacher, not all and sundry.

Ask her to take it down and if she refuses, talk to the HT. They would never put confidential information on the walls about teachers' performance so why is it different for children?

Thanks all. I will raise it.

As a school governor I would say that information is confidential and the teacher should not be displaying it. At governor meetings we discuss what level children are at but the data is displayed as percentages of boys and girls, SEN, pupil premium, etc. Names are never included. Definitely raise it and if not satisfied by teacher’s response then approach head and then governors. It’s totally inappropriate

In a state school? Gosh,you’re lucky. Usually you have to go private for that level of public humiliation!

It being available in the classroom (so cover teachers etc can have it) - no problem
On the wall for random visitors to see - TOTALLY out of order

YABU. Bloody nanny state we live in now. All our end of year exam results were posted on the class noticeboard, in order of achievement. For all subjects. It was a source of anticipation, drove competition and ensured everyone applied themselves. The more able jostled to get the top mark. The less able aimed to improve in order to get out of the bottom scores. Somewhere along the line, education has gone mad. We’re quite literally breeding these snowflakes who are finishing formal education with no resilience.

Forty I take it you don't have a hard working struggler with low confidence?

Yes I do, aged 4 and a half.

Wait untill your child is 11 and still.struggling Forty my son is in yr 6 he has always worked below expected standards he has mild learning difficulties there is no way I would want this kind of information available for all to see they already know hes on the bottom table (why the fuck they have to do tables like that I don't know) .

YANBU OP. Displaying everyone's results like this doesn't help anyone. IME all the children know where they lie in relation to their classmates anyway. Putting it up on the wall is just rubbing it in and will cause those who are struggling additional stress. I would ask for it to be removed.

Disgusting. My view is that under the data protection act this is personal data and this is unauthorised disclosure

4.5 doesn't count.
For DD it was only when she hit y3/y4 that she started to notice the gap between her and others. Happily pointed out to her by some of the more able but not very empathetic children. It does not need to be advertised on a classroom wall for everyone to see and study.

Hi all. Thanks for your advice. I spoke to the class rep and it has been taken down.

why the fuck they have to do tables like that I don't know)

I agree! I teach sometimes in schools and always ask for a mixed ability group - that way the capable get on the middels get extra support and the bottom 2 get plenty of attention - it works so much better at keeping a group on task -

An for you find the able actively helping the others

That's not acceptable. I'd talk to the teacher. Children's attainment levels are private and not for displaying to other children, parents, and random visitors).

My child has SN, Lord knows it's hard enough to get your own child's attainment levels when you want them!. We had to formally request them in writing and then it took them days to respond (mind you that school was spectacularly shit).

What is this teacher thinking!

was waiting for some fool to come along and whine about 'snowflakes'

Bet they wouldn't be so happy to display the teachers that are performing best and those that are underperforming on a league table in the playground for all the students and parents to see.

Speak to the teacher, but don't assume it's the teacher's idea. If they've been told to by above, then it's impossible for them to argue against it.

What nuttyknitter said.
It's important for the children to know their attainment levels and what they're aiming for but it absolutely shouldn't be on public display. Please do talk to the school.

Better to have their targets written in their exercise books and then speak to them regularly (as a class and as individuals) about how they can specifically go about achieving them in particular types of task.

Result OP!

Ds3's class has a chart for times tables with squares coloured in for the ones they can answer backwards, forwards and upside down in two seconds know. Ds is good at tables so it doesn't bother him but I do feel sorry for the bottom few having it advertised to everyone esp on open days.

They did that at my DD's school. DD was a high achiever but I really felt for others especially as parents' evening meetings were held in there so all the other parents saw it. I spoke to the teacher about it as I was staff and she said it was to motivate the chn.!!

Glad to hear it's been taken down, like pp said the pupils all know roughly where they are attaining against their classmates, but I can imagine some parents loving studying it.
My dd struggled through school and was mortified to see her GCSE results displayed in the local paper. I feel that was the ultimate failure in confidentiality but seems to be the norm.