Labour's drive to increase the number of pupils gaining C grades at GCSE is distorting education and forcing teachers to neglect their highest and lowest achievers, the schools select committee is expected to conclude this month.
After a year-long inquiry into school accountability and inspections, MPs are ready to accuse the government of creating a system that discourages and undermines teachers. Staff, they will argue, feel under pressure to focus their attention on pupils who could achieve a C grade and improve a school's league table standing at the expense of other pupils who might otherwise be able to gain an A or A*.
Back in January I said
It seems that all of the focus and energy is directed at the 'average' kids, the ones who are just below the required standard, trying to bring them up to the level needed to affect the teachers pay review while the brightest of the class are frequently left to their own devices. If a child has already fulfilled their annual objectives they aren't pushed to excel, encouraged to progress further. And that, to me, is very wrong. We should be pushing the brightest students harder as well as trying to encourage performance from the less intellectually able.Being right is such a burden :o)
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