I’ve been receiving letters approximately children shaking and crying over their primary tests. Are you really sure it’s worth it?I’ve been receiving letters recently from parents,teachers and school governors telling me approximately the stress that children in year 2 and year 6 are under. This is because of the Sats tests and I don’t accept any sense from you or your colleagues that you realise how serious this is.
When the Sats first came in, I was reassured by people responsible for them that they were just “pencil and paper tests”, or which children would hardly notice. Schools would be assessed in ways that were nationally equivalent for the sake of us parents. Education was being held to account. This negated the possibility that a combination of teachers,their professional associations, the national inspectorate, and officers and advisers in local authorities and parent representation could improve schools. It negated the possibility that this could be built on through giving teachers incentives to research their own practice and share the results.
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Source: theguardian.com