Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:39 am (UTC)
Will do, with the Stross story.

In many ways I think men tend to survive the British boys' boarding school system as much as anything.

As for all the hoo-ha about SATS & how some teachers are merely drilling their pupils in subjects likely to be tested. . .

Of course they are - the schools are allocated funding based on pupil numbers. Parents tend to pick schools that are local & have good SATs ratings.

Even if, as currently designed, SATs don't actually test anything useful, & there is still a horribly large proportion of people leaving primary school (age 11) unable to read & write fluently or do even simple arithmetic. Of course, this could be part of a government plot to keep the masses ignorant.

Or it could just be sheer incompetence - on the part of those who insist on having such badly designed tests!
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