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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Heard this on the radio yesterday, see what you think.
A head teacher has written to a parent to ask them to cancel their daughters birthday party as it is on a Sunday before their other daughter who will be attending sats test.
I know what I would do but very very politely  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Sats are an indication of how the school is performing not the child.
I would have taught the head teacher a few new words and told them if they interfered with my child's weekend again they would have to right out a hundred times
Mind your own fucking business. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Sats are an indication of how the school is performing not the child.
I would have taught the head teacher a few new words and told them if they interfered with my child's weekend again they would have to right out a hundred times
Mind your own fucking business. "
 that's what I meant by being polite |
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The mum was on BBC news this morning. The party is actually for her 13 year old daughter, not the one taking her sats. It's crazy and yes I think I would be increasing her vocabulary with a few chosen words.
BTW she isn't cancelling |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Maybe the Head Teacher should spend more time learning about education and what is involved, its not about how little time Teachers/ Head Teachers actually spend teaching pupils or how good the results are for them, and its now known they want even less time doing what is a highly paid career that not many are capable of doing.
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By *quirrelMan
over a year ago
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Sats are not just for the school, they are a measure of the childs progress within the school and as a guide to their future educational needs.
If their sats are lower than their friends they may be seperated into a lower set and their social standing within their peer group may be compromised and friendships broken leading to emotional problems as they are no longer part of the clique.
Sats are also used along with the teachers assessment to stream children into the correct learning group at secondary school, it is imperative that they are accurate because a child in the wrong learning group at secondary level would not recieve the education they deserve as teachers would use sats and teachers assessments as a guide to what level of teaching they will need and the level of teaching would be set at a lower level and not stretch them educationally leading to lowered expectations of their abilities.
As an ex-teacher and a parent I still think there is a belief that only parents have the best interest of their children at heart and teachers are just highly paid babysitters.
On another note, if the headmistress let things slide and the school got consistantly bad Sat's there is a likely hood that parents would stop sending their kid's there because of their poor Ofsted reports, the local authority could then recommend the school be closed due to lack of numbers and the children be relocated to otheer schools, parents would then have to travel further to get their kids to school and in some cases siblings would not necessarily be at the same school requiring even more travelling. Parents would then be complaining about a lack of choice and splitting up their children. Freedom and the right to tell the establishment where to get off always come at a price, nothing is ever as simple as it appears. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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my SATs determined what academic group i went into going into secondary school. If my results were poor because i was tired, stressed out, nervous etc that would effect my secondary education.
Whilst part of me thinks the headteacher is being cheeky.. i do think its just a polite way of saying these tests are important
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That's crazy you know i think they put too much pressure on them during the sats these days...They are primary kids and although its good to help with home work and support your kid i don't thin at 10 and 11 they should e pressured or worried by it what will be will be.
I remember my mam buying us chinese and making a big deal out of us passing our 11+ but don't remember any pressure on us before hand and we all did it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"my SATs determined what academic group i went into going into secondary school. If my results were poor because i was tired, stressed out, nervous etc that would effect my secondary education.
Whilst part of me thinks the headteacher is being cheeky.. i do think its just a polite way of saying these tests are important
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They are important but i think the more the kid feels pressured they will stress out about it and probably do worse |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They are important but i think the more the kid feels pressured they will stress out about it and probably do worse "
i applied pressure to myself.. my grandparents offered me cash incentives for how well i did and remember wanting to buy something specific.
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By (user no longer on site)
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"They are important but i think the more the kid feels pressured they will stress out about it and probably do worse
i applied pressure to myself.. my grandparents offered me cash incentives for how well i did and remember wanting to buy something specific.
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Yeah my grandparents gave me a fiver and that was a lot then....Ive done the £10 per gcse for my boys but never got on their back to do any study just told them if its their best its good enough for me. |
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