Children who fail English or Maths in Y6 will be forced to resit their SATs

[noblegiraffe]

....under a Tory government, from 2016.

The reason they will be forced to resit their SATs in Y7 is to avoid dragging down the bright kids who are forced to share a classroom with them.

Secondary schools who don't manage to get 80% of these failures to pass by the end of Y7 will face government intervention.

WTAF.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/11521061/Children-who-fail-English-and-maths-exams-must-take-re-sits-Tories-say.html

disidealist.wordpress.com/2015/04/08/mediocre-failures/
This is an interesting read and spot on if you ask me.

I've also attached a note written to me by a child in my class a few years ago who broke down in tears after getting her SATs results back and had achieved level 3s (a fabulous achievement) but felt a worthless failure at age 11.
I'd never felt so sickened to be a teacher.