By Daniel Lynch
The National Union of Teachers has criticised the findings of an Ofsted report which claims England’s state schools are letting down the country’s brightest pupils.
The National Union of Teachers has criticised the findings of an Ofsted report which claims England’s state schools are letting down the country’s brightest pupils.
Ian Murch, Executive Member of the National Union of
Teachers, told BCB that the report was based on an "absolutely tiny amount of
evidence".
The study claims that two thirds of pupils failed to
maintain the standard of results between primary and GCSE level. Nationally, 65,000
pupils failed to get an A or A* in GCSE maths or English despite achieving
level 5 in primary school tests.
Ofsted claim that teachers and parents had too “readily
accepted” the low performance levels of pupils who had scored highly in primary
school tests.
Mr Murch said that teachers shouldn’t be blamed for
Government policy which measures the success of schools on the number of
students who achieve a C grade at GCSE rather than taking all results into
account.
He said: “I’m afraid teachers and many involved in education
don’t trust Michael Wilshaw and Ofsted.”
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