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Letter to the editor
The Prime Minister's comments yesterday on education spending miss the point, as the secondary education system also needs a major overhaul. firstly, the system only views the weakest learners as having special (1) ____________ . The brightest and most (2) ____________ students are not encouraged to develop to their full potential. Secondly, there's too much testing and not enough learning. My fifteen-year-old daughter, for example, has just spent the last month or so (3) ____________ for exams. These aren't even real, important exams, as her GCSEs will be next year. They're just (4) ____________ exams. Is the work she's been doing really going to make her more (5) ____________ about her subjects, or will she forget it all tomorrow? I suspect the latter.
Thirdly, the standard (6) ____________ doesn't give students any (7) ____________ in developing practical work-related, living and social skills, or in skills necessary for higher education. How many students entering university have the first idea what the difference is between (8) ____________ someone else's work and making good use of someone else's ideas? Shouldn't they have been taught this at school? How many of them are really able to go about (9) ____________ - a skill that's essential at university because there are no teachers to tell you what to do - in an efficient way? Indeed, how many students ( 10) ____________ from university totally unable to spell even simple English words correctly? The system is letting our children down.
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