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"Yes i agree. At primary i had a long walk each day to school. Nowadays to the same school from where i lived the kids get a free school bus. I also worked as a waitress in the golf club at age 15. Usually around 25hrs per week after school and at weekends. This is not allowed today. Its no wonder alot kids are little fatties." Are kids not allowed to work now , paperruns or shops now ? I never knew that. | |||
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"Yes i agree. At primary i had a long walk each day to school. Nowadays to the same school from where i lived the kids get a free school bus. I also worked as a waitress in the golf club at age 15. Usually around 25hrs per week after school and at weekends. This is not allowed today. Its no wonder alot kids are little fatties. Are kids not allowed to work now , paperruns or shops now ? I never knew that." I done loads when I was 13 to 16 Paper rounds, milk delivery. Fruit n veg vans , remember them lol. I also worked as an operator on the tcups at m&d's when they had their original tiny wee shows on the other side of the road in Strathclyde park. Wish I knew back then how big they would have become. | |||
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"Does this not all stem from the claim. blame and health & safety culture we have now? " What part daisy ? | |||
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"Watched the news tonight the subject of p1 kids having to take a simple touch screen test to gauge their ability. Some parents are against it because it might stress the children. I think the snowflake, mollycoddling of kids is going too far nowadays and kids are growing up far too soft and not ready for the big bad world. All other opinions welcomed. " Stress, that’s mollycoddling but P1 shouldn’t have tests they should be taught how to learn and get an interest in the world. Testing them is to meet targets and pushes them down a tick the box life where they can’t figure something out if it isn’t in a script. | |||
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"The kids not allowed to do part time jobs, schools close when first snow flake falls and not safe to run school buses etc, Dandy" Ahh right, yes definitely agree with that. They do close schools far too easy now. If it's unsafe fair dos but as you say it's the first flakes and their panicking. | |||
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" Stress, that’s mollycoddling but P1 shouldn’t have tests they should be taught how to learn and get an interest in the world. Testing them is to meet targets and pushes them down a tick the box life where they can’t figure something out if it isn’t in a script. " Is it to meet targets though when its p1 or is it so you know what level each kid is at off the bat and who in the class might need more attention? I guess a report from nursery about each child might work the same but then even though the place is free for pre schoolers all kids are not obliged to attend I know primary school teachers and sadly not all parents put the same effort in with their kids so there is a wide range of where kids can be at starting school When i was young i vaguely remember you had “progress checks” at your gp to see you were coming along at the right speed before school ... surely this is just the same but with technology moved along | |||
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"Yes i agree. At primary i had a long walk each day to school. Nowadays to the same school from where i lived the kids get a free school bus. I also worked as a waitress in the golf club at age 15. Usually around 25hrs per week after school and at weekends. This is not allowed today. Its no wonder alot kids are little fatties." There's a lot of fatties your generation also who are now adults and who would have gone through what you went through. Didn't have any bearing on how they turned out. | |||
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"Watched the news tonight the subject of p1 kids having to take a simple touch screen test to gauge their ability. Some parents are against it because it might stress the children. I think the snowflake, mollycoddling of kids is going too far nowadays and kids are growing up far too soft and not ready for the big bad world. All other opinions welcomed. " The best education system in Europe doesn't test kids at all until secondary school. They don't have uniforms and formal education doesn't start until 7. Tests are pointless. Drop them all. | |||
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"I'm dead against all this testing. I've seen men who failed miserably at school,go on to become captains of huge container ships and cruise ships, chief engineers also. Too many children are written off as idiots due to testing, when in actual fact they were more than likely just bored and not stimulated enough to care about the subject. " | |||
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"Too many children are written off as idiots due to testing, when in actual fact they were more than likely just bored and not stimulated enough to care about the subject. " I agree. An even more worrying attitude when they reach high school. I also think it all depends on what they do with the data collected from that test. In France, you have a P1 curriculum and you are tested at the end of P1 to see if you have reach the target. Anyone below average can redo another year of P1. And this is possible up to high school where you do not have the option you are made to redo the year. This helps not putting pressure on kids that are a little slower than others and to give them a good base. Not point trying to build a house with rubbish foundations. So again, depends what they are going to use the test for. Help or pigeon hole the kids. | |||
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"Totally against P1 testing. It’s far too young to be getting any kind of credible results from the data gathered. To think a child is “group” or assessed on how they perform over a half hour period. How do you expect a child to maintain interest for that period of time on something so boring as sitting in one place and looking at a screen. Children are intrinsically motivated to learn through play. Play based learning until the age of 7 with teachers making individual observations on each pupil is all that is needed. I’ve not even begun to talk about this leading to teachers teaching to the test rather than actually engaging no children in learning and developing the skills they need for effective learning ie, communication, collaboration and reflective thinking! These test need to be abolished! " | |||
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"If kids are snowflakes and mollycoddled who caused it ? Everyones gonna blame everyone else its simple its our parenting and our allowing of our govt to make the changes you gripe about. perhaps follow the trait many allude to put up or shut up. dont blame the kids for our wrongdoings also." Some great responses there, by the sounds of it most don't agree with the testing. But that brings it to this reply here then , are parents doing their part in giving their own kids the basics of education that they used to or are we parents blaming the schools for not doing their jobs properly. I thought the tests were to gauge what level they were at on entering school. I know a primary school teacher and she said some p1s don't even have the skills to put on their own jacket when entering school life. That's a child that has been mollycoddled and had EVERYTHING done for them. I was also on the children's panel and saw lots of extremely intelligent kids do stupid stuff because they never got stimulated enough at school. Kola is right it all starts with the parenting in my view too. Harsh to blame the government on it all though but that's politics, some good stuff some bad. | |||
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"The test is solely for literacy and numeracy. The fear or worry is that teachers will focus too much on these and narrow the curriculum. Standardised testing if P1 done in this way is bad! The countries with the highest child literary and numeracy rates don’t do it. Why doesn’t the government follow the model these countries use? Raising the school start age to 7 and having a kindergarten stage would be a good start! " So would that mean staying in school till they are 18 ? | |||
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"Watched the news tonight the subject of p1 kids having to take a simple touch screen test to gauge their ability. Some parents are against it because it might stress the children. I think the snowflake, mollycoddling of kids is going too far nowadays and kids are growing up far too soft and not ready for the big bad world. All other opinions welcomed. Stress, that’s mollycoddling but P1 shouldn’t have tests they should be taught how to learn and get an interest in the world. Testing them is to meet targets and pushes them down a tick the box life where they can’t figure something out if it isn’t in a script. " I’d say it’s more to identify areas that the children could require additional support. Certainly what I’ve found with my own and it’s been welcomed. She’s now leaps and bounds to where she was and back on track for her age. Most shouldn’t even realise there’s a test taking place, as I understand it. | |||
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"Watched the news tonight the subject of p1 kids having to take a simple touch screen test to gauge their ability. Some parents are against it because it might stress the children. I think the snowflake, mollycoddling of kids is going too far nowadays and kids are growing up far too soft and not ready for the big bad world. All other opinions welcomed. Stress, that’s mollycoddling but P1 shouldn’t have tests they should be taught how to learn and get an interest in the world. Testing them is to meet targets and pushes them down a tick the box life where they can’t figure something out if it isn’t in a script. I’d say it’s more to identify areas that the children could require additional support. Certainly what I’ve found with my own and it’s been welcomed. She’s now leaps and bounds to where she was and back on track for her age. Most shouldn’t even realise there’s a test taking place, as I understand it. " That's good she's back on track. I think other parents feared the extra attention given to bring her back on track would maybe be to the detriment of other kids though. That probably wasnt the case but the fear of it happening will be real.That could be another sideline for this thread , class sizes or not enough teachers and classroom assistants. | |||
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"Watched the news tonight the subject of p1 kids having to take a simple touch screen test to gauge their ability. Some parents are against it because it might stress the children. I think the snowflake, mollycoddling of kids is going too far nowadays and kids are growing up far too soft and not ready for the big bad world. All other opinions welcomed. Stress, that’s mollycoddling but P1 shouldn’t have tests they should be taught how to learn and get an interest in the world. Testing them is to meet targets and pushes them down a tick the box life where they can’t figure something out if it isn’t in a script. I’d say it’s more to identify areas that the children could require additional support. Certainly what I’ve found with my own and it’s been welcomed. She’s now leaps and bounds to where she was and back on track for her age. Most shouldn’t even realise there’s a test taking place, as I understand it. That's good she's back on track. I think other parents feared the extra attention given to bring her back on track would maybe be to the detriment of other kids though. That probably wasnt the case but the fear of it happening will be real.That could be another sideline for this thread , class sizes or not enough teachers and classroom assistants. " Additional support is given out of the main classroom with learning support teachers so doesn’t detract from other pupils. In our case at least. | |||
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"Definitely people for and against these tests, be nice to hear some views from teachers or educational backgrounds. What they think of them ." I doubt teachers would want to declare their job on this forum | |||
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"Totally against P1 testing. It’s far too young to be getting any kind of credible results from the data gathered. To think a child is “group” or assessed on how they perform over a half hour period. How do you expect a child to maintain interest for that period of time on something so boring as sitting in one place and looking at a screen. Children are intrinsically motivated to learn through play. Play based learning until the age of 7 with teachers making individual observations on each pupil is all that is needed. I’ve not even begun to talk about this leading to teachers teaching to the test rather than actually engaging no children in learning and developing the skills they need for effective learning ie, communication, collaboration and reflective thinking! These test need to be abolished! " This is what my kids school have introduced, it’s fab! | |||
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"Definitely people for and against these tests, be nice to hear some views from teachers or educational backgrounds. What they think of them . I doubt teachers would want to declare their job on this forum " That's true but saying an educational background does not mean a teacher, it could mean lots of different things. Which is why I put that get out clause into my post. | |||
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"Definitely people for and against these tests, be nice to hear some views from teachers or educational backgrounds. What they think of them . I doubt teachers would want to declare their job on this forum That's true but saying an educational background does not mean a teacher, it could mean lots of different things. Which is why I put that get out clause into my post. " Do you mean folk that have been to school? | |||
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"Definitely people for and against these tests, be nice to hear some views from teachers or educational backgrounds. What they think of them . I doubt teachers would want to declare their job on this forum That's true but saying an educational background does not mean a teacher, it could mean lots of different things. Which is why I put that get out clause into my post. Do you mean folk that have been to school?" That would be 99.9% of the over 5s population then would it not ?. I see where this is going though. If you don't know what other educational backgrounds there are I suggest looking them up on Google , will help you see my point. | |||
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"My own, now adult sons could be said to have been part of this Molly coddling generation that a few are talking about however I'm happy with how they've turned out. They've got positive and negative traits, neither is a lardy couch potato , they both play sport and thankfully are both employed. You only want the best for them at the end of the day and I'd say their generation aren't as bad as us older numpties often make out." I think your mixing up good parental care with mollycoddling. Your pretty much ages with me and yes they got it easy at times but I bet they got a kick up the erse when required too. If you hadn't they would have turned out different , I'm sure. And speak for yourself , us older numpties. Lol | |||
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"No you just replace nursery and p1 and maybe p2 with the kindergarten stage. It doesn’t push back p1, just replaces it. There is no place for rote teacher led learning in the early years. " Have you been in the junior years of a primary school recently? There is no rote teaching anymore, the early years concentration is on learning through play. | |||
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"The schools and teachers aren’t given the results, kids Teacher told me." Asked a friend who is a primary school teacher. She said the headteacher gets the results of the tests and individual scores. She said most ht's will pass on results to staff but not compulsory for them to do so. She also said teachers are the same as us , some for them and some against the tests. What she said about the test was it dosnt reflect the curriculum with some weird questions. P1 sits it with the teacher 1 to 1 with touch screen. P4 and p7 sit it as a class on individual screens which dosnt give an accurate assessment as the results won't tell if they guessed lots of answers or actually knew the answer. High scores could be down to luck as opposed clever kids. | |||
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