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Originally Posted by Less
Keep failing pupils back - Tories
So, the Conservatives propose that to improve literacy in secondary schools children found in their last year at Junior school to be struggling will be kept back for a year in a bid to ensure these children catch up.
Excuse me? But I thought our children started school at the age of 5 and moved on to secondary school at 11 this surely gives the teachers at the junior school 6 years, (age 11 minus age 5=6 for anyone that should have been kept back), during which time they (teachers), should have the chance to notice that little Sarah is struggling with her reading etc. Therefore shouldn't more emphasis be placed on bringing her up to speed before the final year?
Also, keeping a reluctant 12 year old back could cause disruption of the classroom for the struggling 11 year old that might have been passed as fit for progress to the secondary school if only their lessons hadn't been disturbed by the actions of some older children.
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I wonder how that would work then. At the moment classes are limited to 30 pupils so what will happen if they keep 3 pupils back a year and then they've got 30 more coming up into the class? They'll end up with bigger classes depending on how many they keep back? It's against the law to have more than 30 in a class isn't it?
