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Moving on, I gather that you say, parents of children who fail will, by law, have to be
told they failed (which, in my experience, is the same as telling the children). Perhaps
you could prepare the speech that a headteacher could give to the year 1 children:
"Hello children, all of you, sitting over there are failures. It's about two thirds of you."
What a good way to encourage them to become eager learners!
Now here's the next rumour bit – people are saying that this is all a cunning plan so
that you can run a big press conference in the summer announcing that we have a
nation of illiterates and the present one-hour a day synthetic phonics lessons should
be upped to two hours. There are even some cynical people (tush — who would have
thought there could be such people!), who are saying that you'll run the pass level at
34 out of 40 for the time being, and then after a year or so of SP, you'll lower it a bit,
more children will pass, and, hey presto, you've improved reading! How can people
think such things of you? Shocking.
And then, as if all this wasn't enough, you'll never guess what I heard this week?
Someone told me that when you ran a press conference to tell the group of lucky
journalists assembled there that the free school experiment in Sweden was a success,
one journalist asked you if you were aware of the evidence emerging from Sweden
that things weren't going quite as swimmingly as you suggested. Whereupon, you
asked him if he was aware of the counter-evidence: a master-stroke of repartee, sir, if
I may say so. But I cannot find the counter-evidence you mention anywhere, and dare
I say I am a bit worried about that. It slightly reminds me of your party conference
speech that time when you compared the questions on science exam papers in the US
and Britain, while failing to point out that the paper in the US was a chemistry exam
for students aged 16 to 19 and the UK one was for GSCE biology. In a test on use of
evidence, that would have had me telling your parents you were a failure, you know.
But these are all rumours and we really need to dump them in the bin marked "false"
as soon as possible, don't we?
(The Guardian)
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