NUT votes to boycott SATs
This year’s National Union of Teachers conference, held over the Easter weekend, voted unanimously to boycott SATs in the next academic year if the government fails to recognise the damage the tests are doing to our primary pupils. Conference called for the tests to be scrapped. The tests have little educational importance — they have been exposed as a form of government control. Published league tables are used as sticks to beat teachers with, and students are left with a barren curriculum that focuses heavily on numeracy and literacy rather than a wide spectrum of topics. Students are left...