Help please!! Foul play, teacher marking work fraudulently

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I would like some advice on what I should do. My DD is in Y5, they have finished their end of year tests for Maths and English. The teacher had lost a few of the children's test answer papers, so he has given one of the children the opportunity to do the test again. However, my DD has observed the teacher providing the child who had to do the test again with the answers. Now unsurprisingly, this child has scored 140 out of 140, this child also happens to be the 'teacher's pet'. Where do I go with this information?

If I was in your shoes, I wouldn't bother doing anything. I would just teach your child that they don't always know the full story and to mind their own business.
If and I mean IF something vaguely resembling what you have described happened, then possibly the child who scored well could be the "teacher's pet" as they have horrendous shit going on in their life and need someone to care for them. Ditto for the test - maybe they just needed to feel good about something. Thank goodness for all the amazing teachers all over the world who see beyond the test and look at the child every day!

Of course they wouldn’t but they make thank you for the laugh!

Snitches get stitches

What an exceptionally attentive, observant and imaginative 10 yr old you have.

Has she had special coaching, or it is a familial trait?

OP - I seriously think you need to have a think about your sense of perspective.

The daughter sounds like a girl many years ago who would hang around the classrooms at break 'tidying' but really earwigging on staff conversations then reporting back to her Mum, the Padre's wife. We had great fun with our conversations, a friend who had been widowed very young and was remarrying said how glad she would be to get all three children out of care. Mrs Padre was round to her place that evening.........

I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s year five. Friendly advice, try and chill out about irrelevancies such as this, save your worries for more important things or you’ll end up stressing over everything.

This whole thread reminds me of when our eldest started school and we had to go to the meeting for new intake's parents, even though we both worked in the school she insisted, and the Head told us all Never believe all your child says goes on in school and we'll promise not to believe all what they tell us happens at home!

That means your daughter's testimony isn't reliable in general!

For raising a concern? Didn't say it was this concern.

No wonder teachers are thought of badly. It's actually worrying that some are in the job.

Love, she is spinning you yarns right, left and centre.

This would be far more of a problem if it actually mattered and the standard end of year 5 test existed. That being said……..REVOLUTION!!! We march on the capital at dawn, take back what is ours by birth right (year 5 years apparently), banish the evil doers to the wild lands and something, something, something. See you at dawn, just outside costa.

OP is it possible that your daughter doesn't like the girl as she's a 'teacher's pet'? Or likely that she's saying what she thought she saw but isn't what actually happened?

Not as worrying as some of the parents who have children!

Write to your MP and tweet Rishi. Or get a grip and think who cares it is year 5.

Ok, @brunettemic - I'll see you there. At some point I may have to pop into Tesco because I'm low on Bertolli and dishwasher tablets, but I can certainly man barricades.

This is clearly bollocks as no teacher has time to sit with a child and help them redo a test. Far too busy at this point in the year. Reports, pupil progress meetings, transition, SEN paperwork, marking tests, end of year stuff. Nah.

I'm guessing neither you or your daughter like that kid or the teacher.

Don’t raise your daughter to be the sort of person always looking for excuses as to why someone is “doing better”. This is a good opportunity to teach her that the only thing that’s important is her own exam results, and if she keeps her eyes in her own lane and she’ll do better.

Chinny reckon, OP...

There is in Wales, but this story is spurious nonsense, nonetheless...

There are standardised annual literacy and numeracy tests in Wales at that age, but I believe they are taken online so a paper couldn't be lost.

It's generally best to assume you don't know the full story and there will be reasons behind things your children tell you about school in my experience, unless it's a safeguarding issue or your child is bring harmed.

As others have said end of year tests in year 5 mean nothing except to check whether the kids are on track with their learning. To be honest unless they are really below where they should be then nothing will be done regarding their marks.
Some schools may use the same tests but there is no standard year 5 test. I genuinely wouldnt get myself worked up by this. As others have said, it's very likely you havent got the story quite right here.

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@LadyMonicaBaddingham good to know!