Education & Learning
UK Schools Forcing Illiterate Seven-Year-Olds to Take Exams, Leading to Tears
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"He looked up at me and he said the words to me, Mr. Foster, I can't read. Can't read. And I said to him, Terry, just try. And he goes, I can't read... He literally put his head on the table and cried."
Francis Foster described a traumatic scene where a 7-year-old student named Terry was forced to take a Year 2 exam despite being unable to read. Foster, who was covering the class, called the practice 'unimaginably cruel' and highlighted how the education system sets vulnerable children up for repeated failure, damaging their self-esteem from an early age. The incident illustrates systemic failures in supporting special needs students.
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