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TEXT 2. LETTER FROM A CURIOUS PARENT.
Michael Rosen has some questions for the education secretary
I wonder if I can tell you about some rumours that are doing the rounds?
First, we've all seen that you're going to perform that miracle much beloved by those
who like measuring human beings: changing the pass level of exams.
I come from an era when this was standard practice in the 11-plus exam. The pass
level in any area wasn't a statement about how good or bad that cohort of children
were. It was simply tied to how many grammar school places that particular local
authority had created. The collective memory of this sort of thing makes people
wonder, you know.
I mean, there couldn't be a tiny possibility that the reason why you're fiddling around
with exam pass levels is so that you can regulate the numbers of school students
applying for university? After all, it has become quite embarrassing that thousands of
young people we all thought were qualified to benefit from three years more
education are now deemed not to be so, with the only visible reason for this shift in
view being that you agree with the bankers that we can't "afford" that level of
university provision. Handy for you, I suppose, if you can dampen a bit of the young
people's ardour for more education by labelling more of them as failures.
Talking of labelling people as failures, I see it's full steam ahead with June's phonics
test. The results for your pilot tests are in and they make interesting reading. The pass
level was put at 34 correct readings of the 40 single words. (I'm not sure why reading
single words, not in sentences nor in passages of writing counts as "reading".
Wouldn't it have been more honest to have called it a "decode test"?) Sad to say, only
32% of the children reached the pass score. Now, one rumour I heard was that even
the "outstanding schools" that did the pilot scored at this sort of a level. If so, will
your new head of Ofsted have to change the word "outstanding" to "crap"? He's
rather good at that sort of thing, isn't he?
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