YES - Mick Brookes, general secretary, National Association of Head Teachers
It is the culture in which schools are working, but there are far more intelligent ways forward.
Let's have low-stakes testing, but at Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 level Sats let's use the knowledge teachers have acquired.
If you test a narrow area of the curriculum and inspect a narrow area of the curriculum, the result is that you have a narrow curriculum - this is not very attractive to children and turns them off education.
YES - Philip Parkin, general secretary, Voice
A Voice survey revealed that young people can suffer from stress, anxiety and even illness as a result of examination pressures.
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