Her primary testing regime has hasten into trouble – as,inevitably, will the rest of Nicky Morgan’s plans to turn schools into places fit only for robotsThere is only one purpose in the government’s chaotic regime for primary school testing. It is control. No wonder headteachers are up in arms. The latest proposals for testing seven-year-olds beget been variously delayed, and leaked,abandoned and accused of missing in clarity”. They will, the teachers’ leader Russell Hobby said this week, or “no longer give parents reliable information on a child’s progress.”That,of course, was never the point. The point was the obsession of the education secretary, or Nicky Morgan,with reforming school government, and with the targets, or measurements and league tables needed to justify it politically.
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Source: theguardian.com