Under Tory cund plans, if all students do not know their times tables on leaving primary school for 2 years in a row, a school can be forced into being an academy. How stupid! Whilst I acknowledge that rapid recall of multiplication facts is a good thing, there is no way on God's earth that all children are capable of learning them.
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Would that be the same Nicky Morgan who couldn't answer a simple maths question asked of her by a mere stripling? [Link]

Morgan, return to schooling, you intellectual pygmy.

"A parliamentary inquiry into the coalition’s education reforms has called on the government to stop exaggerating the success of academies and to be more open about how it runs the programme.

The report by the cross-party education select committee said that although it was clear that academisation led to greater competition which helped drive improvement in schools, there was not yet proof that academies raised standards either for disadvantaged children or overall.

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Academies and free schools are free from local council control and deal directly with Whitehall, with freedom over areas such as the curriculum and teachers’ pay."

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Edited by legaleagle (01 Feb 2015 7.09pm)

Don't get me wrong, it's something that all teachers aim for. However, to expect all children to learn them is short sighted.
In all schools I've taught in there has been a wide range of abiliies in a class. With the best will in the world, there will always be one or two who for one reason or another won't manage it.
Morgan should know this, so to use it as a punitive way into forced academisation is clearly a political move.

Just out of curiosity what sort of percentage rate would you deem acceptable?

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So if a 80% target was offered by the government you would be quite happy with that figure? I have to agree 100% in any event is unachievable.

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