Keir Starmer is wrong; passing your GCSEs, *first-time*, is not your “one chance in life”…

Our education system is so riven with this kind of nonsense and it is guaranteed to produce increased stress for pupils and limit their horizons throughout their lives. Personally I took great delight in telling my History students that I dropped History as a subject at age 13.

It is easier and cheaper though, if you can stay on the fast moving factory conveyor belt that’s our schooling system.

Did he say that?!? The unbelievable amount of pressure put on teens regarding an exam system designed to fail a third of those who go through it is so wrong. There are various roads to success, and various ways of defining success.

Dread to think where I’d be if that was the case.