Selection tests traumatic, unnecessary and unjust [anphoblacht.com]
- Last Updated: Thursday, 12 November 2009 10:29
As grammar schools in the Six Counties have begun testing 10 and 11-year-old children in an unregulated academic selection process, Sinn Féin Education Spokesperson John O’Dowd has said: “The testing of children at 10 and 11 years of age to decide if they may or may not enter a school is wrong. It has no proven educational benefit and numerous educational and social disadvantages.”
Around 13,000 Primary 7 children have registered to sit entrance tests over November and December with one or both grammar associations that have formed to try to maintain selection - the Association for Quality Education and the Post-Primary Transfer Consortium, which each represent 34 schools.
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