Wednesday, 15 August 2007

Bringing up the national average

Yesterday’s 10 o’clock news showed that 40 percent of 14 year olds in England aren’t reaching the required national standard in English, Maths and Science. This raised concern within the education system and with us at Dore.

It’s always really tough getting the phone calls we do from parents whose child has just had poor SATs results. It is agony. To all those who have recently started the programme - I am looking forward to hearing from you in a year’s time and I'm sure then it will be a very different story.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder how many of those parents now realise that the schools are failing their children. Dore is at the fore front of tackling learning difficulties and it can only bring more parents forward who will be willing to put their child through the treatment.
How many of those children are like Leila was prior to Dore never diagnosed with any learning difficulty. These are the ones who are falling through the net and will continue to struggle into adulthood.

Hopefully the results will have the added benefit of making the government realise that their current learning needs system is not working. We live in hope
Ellie XXX

eraina said...

Why do the goverment put staff and children under so much pressure? No wonder the teaching proffession are losing so many good teachers!!(and a few rubbish ones!) j's homework last term was ' describe the 'dramatic conventions' in the first act of this play'!!!! we didnt do dramtic conventions until the 4th year of high school!!! Luckily this term he has a fantastic teacher and I can see he is making much better progress.But for every fantastic teacher there are 5 bad ones!! grrr!!