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At the heart of A level results mess is a system that doesn’t put people (students, teachers) at its centre, valuing statistics first. Since Gove’s reforms, every year at GCSE 1/3 of pupils are destined to get G1-3 no matter what. The forgotten, unheard third.
There’s rarely much comment on this. Success is rightly celebrated but for one third every year there is little cause for celebration. One pupil’s success is inevitably another’s failure. Results aren’t statistics, they belong to real people whose teachers will have worked hard
with them over two years (or more) to try and get them the results they deserve despite the statistical model. The outcry over A levels will be amplified at GCSE if it goes the same way on Thursday.
All of it is driven, of course, by the perverse accountability system in education.
Somewhere in all of this, the moral purpose of education has been lost which makes me sad and angry in equal parts.
