Literacy levels
Sir,—John Bateman (July 24) asks the impossible, because there is not sufficient unity of teaching and standards to set an examination that most pupils in all Form 2 classes could sit. Groups exist from infant classes until secondary or intermediate levels, where the sheep are separated from the goats, to some extent, making remedial work an absolute necessity. A proficiency examination is only possible with pupils of a recognised standard. Classes were formerly called “standards”; today their inefficiencies are disguised by alphabetical noms de plume. The children go up willynilly, without benefit of term’ or end-of-year exams. The basics have not been taught and no foundation has been laid, leaving children with no fixed rules for spelling, grammar, or the English language in general. The chickens have come home to roost and they, in turn, decide the confusion of the hen run.— Yours, etc.,
V. H. ANDERSON. July 24, 1986.
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