Exams: GCSE students didn’t take them this year, but that doesn’t mean they haven’t worked hard. The Tories are (again) planning to penalise pupils who didn’t go to private schools, for no other reason than that. Let’s see employers and educators ignore their prejudiced downgrade.
It seems the Tories haven’t learned their lesson from the ‘A’ level results scandal and are planning to repeat their stunt next week with GCSE results.
Gavin Williamson is looking forward to downgrading the results of two million school pupils based, not on the results they are expected to get, but on the fact that they didn’t go to an expensive private school.
Of course this represents a serious and bitter injustice that Williamson will perpetrate for no other reason than because he can.
It represents Tory prejudice against people from poor and disadvantaged backgrounds, with the least privileged expected to fare the worst, no matter how intelligent they are or hard they have worked.
That is Tory ignorance for you. Amazingly, Williamson and his ilk were voted into Parliament by the parents of many of the children whose futures will be irreparably harmed.
Williamson is hiding behind a claim that the results are determined by a mechanical algorithm – but he is neglecting to admit that the algorithm was written to reflect Williamson’s own prejudice, that pupils at private schools must be placed above the hoi-polloi, no matter how stupid and undeserving the toffs’ children may be.
The Tories aren’t going to change. It is their agenda to push your children’s faces into the mud while their brats stand on their backs to bask in the sun.
It is up to others to reject what Williamson is doing – that means schools, colleges and employers.
If a pupil at a state school fails to receive the required grades to get the further education place they want, or the job for which they have applied, because the government arbitrarily lowered their grade, then it is the moral responsibility of those businesses and institutions to side with the student.
And I think we need to see those organisations say as much – now.
Let’s have the reassurance for GCSE students that employers and universities denied to their ‘A’ level counterparts.
I’ve already called for a boycott of Tory-supporting organisations after the ‘A’ level fiasco.
Let’s see who won’t stand with the kids and give them the same cold-shoulder treatment. Do you agree?
Source: GCSEs: 2 million results set to be downgraded, researchers warn | Education | The Guardian
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