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So, the "experts" are pushing for that crappy little island's pupils to be exempt from any and all kinds of testing until they reach the age of sixteen.

Lest you think whatever you last had for drink had something in it, let me repeat that: an "influential teaching body" *snort* is militating for "[a]ll national exams [to] be abolished for children under 16 because the stress caused by over-testing is poisoning attitudes towards education[.]"

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That is just so plain STUPID that I am lost for words. Wallah! So, in lieu of assaying to demolish that unmitigated idiocy, let me relate to y'all my own education experience.

I spent many of my elementary and secondary education years in Croatia (some in Belgium and Germany but that's beside the point). We had anything from five subjects in first grade elementary to seventeen subjects in senior high. In every one of these subjects (except, of course, Physical Education) we were tested on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, by way of quizzes, dictations, tests, exams and yes--shock, horror!--oral exams. (Oral examination or, I should say, interrogation, was as important--if not even more so--as written assessment.) We were at school from 0730 until 1300 hours AND had at least four hours worth of homework DAILY.

This country--in common with most other central and eastern European entities--had neither any league tables nor divisions (e.g. public/private, grammart/comprehensive and all that mishegos). All elementary schools (ages 6-14) were the same and followed one syllabus. Some specialization options were available at the secondary education stage (at the age of 14/15) but the core ten-ish subjects were taught at every institution to the same curriculum. That is still the case. (Actually, Croatia is the only country in Europe, which is THINKING of making secondary education compulsory, and that says a lot... - more some other time.)

If you got an "F" in a subject at the end of the year, you'd repeat that grade, end of story. There is absolutely NO WAY for a person to finish elementary education without knowing quite a bit about Mozart, Shakespeare, Renoir, the economy of Japan, the history of Babylon, the theory of gravity and its accompanying formulae, the protozoa and the human digestive system, the formula outlining the creation of glucose, quadratic equations, two foreign languages, and tons of other things.

Britain has for a while now been a nation of morons and now they're letting these fuckwits make them more retarded still.

Joo knaw wo' ah mayn? LOL ("Internal" joke that...)

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