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Re: Michael Gove Pledges 10-Hour School Days - February 7th 2014, 01:57 PM
This is insane. Most of these kids parents will be working less than they're in school. Great for babysitting costs, but it'll drive the kids mad. Literally.
The amount of testing right now is ridiculous. When I was in my 5th and 6th year of high school we did Highers, and that was almost a good system. Throughout the year you take tests called NABs, if you pass them all you get to sit the exam. If you fail the exam they look back at your NABs and you can challenge the result and have it changed based on your previous results.
If we had a system like this where kids CAN challenge exam results and their coursework IS important, it'd take a lot of stress off on exam day if they can go in and say "I'll try my best, but if it doesn't go well I have something to fall back on"

Then again, that's almost a sensible idea and would cost money so it's not something that would ever occur to our government.

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