Can it be right to teach young people that they are all winn
State junior education in this country has been in the news again this week, highlighting the ever-increasing return towards less competition in junior schools. It was this very sentiment that strangled the state system in this country during the late sixties and seventies leaving millions of illiterate and innumerate men and women in its catastrophic wake. Around us are examples of poorly written and inaccurate prose and thousands for whom the calculator is a lifeline in the face of the most basic mental arithmetic.
It has begun all over again. The government is about to cave in over SATS (Strategic Attainment Tests) at seven and eleven because it is suggested that school tes