Further to Professor Broadhead's findings, a headmaster on BBC Radio 4's Today programme once lamented that a good farmer feeds his pigs and does not spend all his time weighing them. Perhaps it would be better to decrease the number of tests recently introduced for school-age children. I understand there could be as many as 75 by the time a child is aged 16.
Further to Professor Broadhead's findings, a headmaster on BBC Radio 4's Today programme once lamented that a good farmer feeds his pigs and does not spend all his time weighing them.
Perhaps it would be better to decrease the number of tests recently introduced for school-age children. I understand there could be as many as 75 by the time a child is aged 16.
Let's get back to feeding the children's minds rather than trying to pretend that 'weighing' them has any bearing on their intelligence and their chance of becoming responsible citizens.
Kathleen Fidler
Croydon, Surrey
