Time to move the goalposts then
Official figures revealing news that four out of ten primary school pupils cannot read, write, or do simple maths should come as no surprise. Neither should we be startled that simple punctuation is something that many of them don’t understand or use. We ought to worry, of course, that they are about to go up to the “big school” without the necessary skills to benefit from the millions of extra pounds thrown at them by a Labour government that promised “education, education, education!” We ought to worry about how they will face adulthood and employment situations (heavens above, just read some of the comments appended to many blogs these days.)
We should worry further that Education Minister Lord Adonis (what a misnomer) should claim that these are the “best ever” set of results for state schools.
So, some of the yardsticks are to be dumbed down lowered (instead of raised) - what a pathetic indictment of a failed regime.
