Thistleflute's Opinions

My nails definitely!

come on guys! any celeb you dislike? even if you dont have a reason? i absolutely hate paul o grady, but dont know why!

Paris Hilton eugh! She is so vain! Her latest film was simply a monument to it... Gah she really annoys me

curvey i think

a curvaceous woman is more beautiful than a stick

Is testing just setting kids up for what will happen when they enter the work place depending on what sort of role they take. If you take a sales role you normally have targets and are expected to meet them weekly or monthly and if you don't measure up results wise you are on performance management or fired so doesn't testing in schools prepare children to a degree for the pressures that they will face as an adult in the real world. Testing is obviously necessarily as a guide as to whether the child has learned or developed the necessary skills and knowledge, I don't know if they have too much testing though. Regular tests on material are easier than have 1 or two big tests as with regular tests you are only having to focus on smaller amounts of learned material whereas left frequent tests require you to cover more material and therefore retain more information so isn't regular testing actually easier on the children with them having to cover less material?

Tests are important - they mean that teachers, parents and children can see where they are, what progress they're making and need to make. But there is too much emphasis on tests. I believe that ch are very stressed and it is partly because of the constant pressure of testing and pressure to achieve the 'next level'. Tests can be motivating, but what about the children who are not good in tests? I have seen children cry during tests because they are under too much pressure.