Interview tasks

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Seriously? What's the point? Interview today and they asked to identify "are risk students" on an a4 sheet with tiny print on it. Easy for the three internal candidates. Don't judge me on a piece of paper, put me talking to the students, dealing with a situation, because anyone can learn to read data, but not connect with young people. 😡

I struggled with this data task at one job I went for - I did get it but I had no idea what any of the acronyms meant as they were all so specific to the school. I knew about sisra and had done data analysis for years - but not used there own system!

Data, data, data. These kids are human beings, not numbers. Another thing that is destroying the education system. Labelling children as this or that, based on meaningless numbers. This child is an A, this child is a D, it mean absolutely nothing. Child labelled as D might end up as a millionnaire or prime minister. Child labelled as A might be good at exams but little resilience or common sense. What a load of rubbish.

Presumably talking to students was also part of the interview, as both tasks reflect aspects of the job?