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Originally Posted by jaxie

I've not seen any statistics for that so I can't comment and don't feel it is particularly relevant. Your apparent lack of concern for the children being failed is rather sad.



The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations of 15-year-old school pupils' scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. OECD is a European organisation. So I ask you, what possible motivation would they have to expand free schools?

Pisa tests are flawed. They test 15 year olds (and a few other age groups) in irrelevant tests, in a few selected schools across the world
A 15 year old scot would not revise for this irrelevant test, its an important year for them to be focussing on other things like their gcses. Uk and usa never do well either. China, Japan, Shanghai etc always score the highest because they take these tests more seriously than the rest of the world, and they have less conflicting examinations at that age
A uk teacher should, and does, encourage pupils not to take it seriously.