All education should be streamed

[ladykale]

If training young footballers seriously, we would never suggest that they continue to play past primary school age with players of all abilities. It OBVIOUSLY would mean that either worse players would not get to play competitively and best players would not be stretched.

Why don't we take a similar approach to education?? One of my issues with the U.K. education system is it rarely holds children back even one year despite them not passing basic requirements for a year and it is not commonplace to move children ahead one year.

I think there should be the ability to hold children back for max 1 year and move kids forward by max 1 year so that classes are more indicative of ability, and streaming of abilities across all subjects year to year (to allow movement between years).

Everything feels like it is amount the lowest common denominator (particularly in state schools!) which holds back brighter children imo.

This would be much better than having a separate grammar system which separates kids out so young and does not allow for late bloomers

Quite. A lot of people seem to think they know best about how schools should operate, based solely on their own experience of school as a child and/or the fact they are the parent of a schoolchild. Schools have to take into account the needs of all of their pupils, and not just in terms of academic progress, but in terms of social, behavioural and emotional needs

There's not enough teachers to start keeping kids back a year so they spend longer in the education system.
Instead focus on making the curriculum more accessible for weaker students whilst also being challenging for the more able. Not a one size fits all approach like we've got now. Bring back more vocational courses, stop with the compulsory 3 sciences and foreign language.