September 3, 2007

Underachievers to stay on at school

It is believed that the conservatives will be proposing a revolutionary scheme in primary schools. This will involve those children who are underachievers and in order for them to catch up they may be required to spend an extra year in primary school.

The conservative leader David Cameron believes that this could become part of an education revolution, which aims to raise the levels for literacy and numeracy standards at the end of primary education.

However this sort of practice could have an even deeper impact on the future education of these children, and besides all of that, surely this would mean that these children would permanently be a year behind and would therefore be seventeen when they take their exams etc.

Clearly literacy and numeracy are essential more than ever these days, but by stigmatising children of ten cannot be the answer. Is this not going to cause them serious problems down the line.

Source [Times Online]

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