To be THAT parent? Yet another bloody test!

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My DC has completed their KS2 SATs last week, with all the pressure that had been put on them all year - constant mentions, booster classes, extra morning sessions etc.

I am a teacher, so understand the pressure the school is under to get decent results, even though we have refused to let DC attend any extra lessons, which they don't need as they are pretty much top of their class anyway.

But two days ago I found out that, this week, the children were subjected to YET ANOTHER bloody test, which forms part of the internal assessment. I am extremely pissed off.

What is the point? The tests now have no relevance - they are pointless from a school POV (even Ofsted don't care about internal assessments anymore) and even more pointless, given that any decent secondary school will even take the (halfway) controlled SATs with a pinch of salt.

WIBU to write a - reasonably polite - email to their teacher requesting the point of these? And when said teacher responded and tried to butter me up by telling me how well DC has approached their SATs and then telling me the test had been scheduled as part of the internal assessment, responding by telling them all of this is irrelevant?

AIBU to take this up with the head? My workplace is too far away to have a face-to-face meeting and I work all school days.
AIBU to have told my child to actively boycott any more internal tests?

I am normally a very supportive parent as I know the pressure from a teacher's perspective, but I will back my child up to the hilt over this.

Exactly. Weighing the pig some more doesn't make it any fatter.

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No, but it does allow you to work out whether the diet is working for the pig. When was the last time they collected reading ages?

Oh gosh, OP, you sound like a pain in the arse. It won't hurt your little darling to take half an hour out of her day to do something. Big fucking deal. Get over it.

Goodness me I'm livid. They've done another test today (first day back), will do another one tomorrow and still another Maths test - all of these tests are testing for exactly the same skills as the STATs did. No. Bloody. Point.

Still unreasonable?

Well I thought you were not being unreasonable in the first place! Now I definitely think that. I’d be trying to get the other parents involved to see what their opinions were. It’s the last half term of primary; they should be having fun and focusing on transition to senior school.

Agreed. Well, I have spoken to another parent with a child with severe SEN who is equally as disgusted. I don't do the school run, so contacting many parents is hard for me. I have now, however, involved the head as my last email to the class teacher was ignored.

My child is on the watch list for ASD and struggles with their mental health, getting highly stressed over tests as it is. This is testing for testing's sake.