10,000 sign petition to scrap Sats [Guardian.co.uk]
- Published: 18 September 2009
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition urging the government to scrap Sats tests in primary schools.
Teachers have mounted a campaign to end the tests and are threatening to boycott next year's unless the government promises to end them. They say the focus on testing, and the league tables the results feed into, have narrowed the curriculum and forced teachers to teach to the test, undermining children's learning.
The National Union of Teachers and the National Association of Head Teachers, which are jointly running the campaign, said they had now received 10,000 signatures in an online petition. They are backed by Michael Rosen, the former children's laureate, who said in an interview with the NUT Teacher magazine: "Abolish Sats - they're utterly useless and they drive children, teachers and parents nuts."
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