The GCSE pupils being taught the alphabet amid literacy crisis

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2. COVID was a big factor, Students didn’t have the skill set to learn online and having worked in Schools the average 16 year old is socially and intellectually more like a 13 year old.

3. The alphabet should be a simple basic of leaving junior school or well before. I remember Friday afternoon spelling tests when 10 ! GCSE level means pupils have 3 years in Secondary school before starting GCSE courses. This headline is just simply Crazy. Crazy. Crazy ! If they do not know the alphabet, how do they get on with other topics ? Sciences ? Geography ? History ? We are going backward in a massive way.

4. It wasn’t all that long ago when most kids could do basic (age appropriate) reading, writing, maths etc by the time they left nursery.

   COVID etc is not the reason they don’t know the alphabet when they are GCSE age.

5. What is the background of these kids?

6. A stars incoming.

7. Truly diabolical

8. Rishi Sunak in June last year: “English schoolchildren are the best readers anywhere in the western world”.

   Cannot believe a Tory would tell a fib.

9. The scales will fall from our eyes someday soon.

10. My daughter I finishing Y6. Half of her class passing SAT mocks with a consistent 95- 100% result. But about 1/3 have no clue about times table, spellings and comprehension- bot even a pass. Basically for that couple months the teacher is only working with those low-performing kids and still there’s very little progress. How’s it happening? Parents not concerned about their kids educational at all? Mental disabilities?  I don’t get it ..

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