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So at long last teachers have decided that SATS are damaging for students as they turn a child's last year of primary school into a repetitive drill for the tests. This is not education and parents and teachers have known it for years.

But even if this is a fault of government surely schools and teachers must take a portion of the blame. Why are teachers putting schools ahead of pupils? The tests are supposed to be a measure of the school's performance, so teachers have been using (abusing) children by making them take repetitive tests to prime them for SATS, instead of actually educating children.

The schools performance has been put in front of the child's education.

The government created a bad system (of which they were forewarned by educationalists) but the teachers have colluded with it for years and knowingly abused the children.