As "Blinky" Balls again shows his propensity to live up to his name we hear that he has refused to apologise over the latest exam marking fiasco. "So what?" you might ask! The Daily Telegraph reports HERE that "Teenagers who have not yet passed A-Levels have been employed to mark SATs exam papers... The disclosure, made by the Labour chairman of the House of Commons Schools Committee, piled more pressure on Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, over the Government's handling of the SATs system. But he has now refused to apologise for the debacle and blamed the company hired to mark test papers..."
My 11 year-old came home from his school today with the news that the SATs papers had been returned late and then the teachers found that the maths and literacy papers had not been marked in accordance with the agreed guidelines and contained a variety of errors. They have been sent back to Educational Testing Services, the US-based company that holds a £154 million five-year Government contract for the work to run the marking system by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
The school has already been forced to send out annual reports on pupil performance in advance of the SATs results because the law demands them to give parents two weeks to comment on them before the end of term. What a shambles!
Just another example of Labour incompetence and its failure to take responsibility for it's abysmal handling of virtually anything that it runs on our behalf. How can we trust them to run a whelk stall let alone the country? "Useless" is an understatement.
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