[senco-forum] Re: Accessability for Exams

Cynical but accurate I suspect ! Barbara ht 

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Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Re: Accessability for Exams

Our man 'Blunk' -- yet to hit the front pages of the tabloids and gossip
columns -- famously vowed to "resign" (when first made SoS for Ed.) if the
literacy targets he set (when introducing the 'literacy hour') were not met
within (if I remember correctly) the first 2/3 yrs of his tenure. I
immediately thought -- "this man has higher ambitions than head of Education
and will be gone before the meeting the targets date arrives". I'm not a
person with the greatest of natural insights, but in this forcast I was
entirely correct. Just a few months before the date when it was announced
that the unrealstic targets were not met -- he was promoted to Home
Secretary -- and went on to spectacularly destroy his settled life and
(seemingly) upwardly moving career. Politicians (particularly those leading
education) are the 'ships that speedily pass in the night'. SENCo's are the
ones who will usually spend a lifetime dealing with the realities that belie
the false claims of freewheeling politicians. Brendan

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From: maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk
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Sent: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 5.19PM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Re: Accessability for Exams

Jean Hutchins <jeanhutchins2000 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote: 

600 words that David Blunkett, then Minister of Education, believed children

should be able to spell by year 7, age 12 years.

He was having a laugh, wasn't he?  

Our top set Y11s (age 15/16) couldn't spell half of those.

Maggie

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