Britain's not new Labour society looks like it will be the...

Britain's not new Labour society looks like it will be the petrie dish for yet more fine tuning of education. Will it be a return to the future with more rigorous teaching and testing of foundational skills in language & maths or will it be a "chill out can't you" approach.

So will it be: Ministers are facing pressure to make the compulsory basic maths checks in Year Four optional as they can be a “waste of time”.The most difficult grammar questions would also be removed from year six SATs, under the ideas.

Or will it be: "All the evidence is that children knowing their times tables by heart is an essential precondition for more sophisticated mathematics, particularly things like simplifying equations and algebra. “It would be a huge mistake to abolish a very simple computer-based test which actually children enjoy doing.”

And this debate is going on or will be replicated in most countries that consider themselves advanced. Is it back to the future or forward to the past?

Maybe a boring question but certainly a potentially crucial one, more important, say, than "are you L?T?B?Q? or ? another option of your choice.

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/09/01/unions-demand-tests-on-times-tables-and-grammar-are-scaled-back/