Stop baseline testing. Spend the money on PPE instead

I want my grandson to look forward to going to school and find out how much fun learning can be. I would prefer it if he wasn't confronted with testing and more testing. The cost of testing could go for better causes. A government which could not organise PPE for those who need it is not a government with money to burn.

I signed a petition on Action Network telling Nick Gibb, Schools Minister to Four-year-olds don't need exams. The Department for Education plans to spend £10 million rolling out exams for every four-year-old entering school. Overwhelmingly the evidence, and consensus from experts around the world, says these kinds of tests on young children are both pointless and damaging.

If so-called Baseline Assessment goes ahead in 2020, every four-year-old will be tested in their first six weeks in school, using a 20-minute one-to-one test. The results will inevitably be unreliable, as two previous expensive and abandoned trials proved. At four years old children are just too young for this kind of high-stakes testing. Can you join me and take action?

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