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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
SER: testing in schools (i'm screwed!)
They announced today that they are getting rid of testing for 14 year olds in the UK. This is HUGE. You don't understand. Our kids take 3 major tests (four if they want to go to university) that are the focus of their lives. Since testing has been part of their lives for soooo many years its the norm. Its what motivates them. I am SCREWED now. 10 bucks says I have mayhem on my hands tomorrow. They are going to give up on me and say "whats the point." The ONLY grade they get in year 9 (14 year olds) is their test score. Crap. Oh crap. I want to call in sick...
Say what you want about testing.....its going to be hell in the short term here with out it.
Re: SER: testing in schools (i'm screwed!)
That system sounds like France's.
Is it that the kids take no tests and do next to no homework during the year and everything is focused on an annual test? If so then yeah that's gonna suck. I'm sorry.
Why did they get rid of it?
Actually they do a ton of homework. Overall it really works over here. The tests are very standardized and straight forward (as opposed to tests in the US that often try to trick kids). honestly, I hated it in the US but I love it here.
Every thing is based on levels (2-8) not grades A-F (until they get older but thats awhole other system). Each child is leveled and the tests are an official decider of the level (although we level every question we give them every day). It sounds complicated (you should ahve seen me my first day!) but its not once you get the hang of it. Its actually much easier.
They will still have standardized tests for year 7s, year 11s and A Level if you want to go to university. They got rid of the year 9 test because there was a grading issue last year. Why they didn't just fix the problem instead of scraping it is beyond me...