It is both sad and infuriating to read how the SATs season is rolling inexorably round yet again, this annual external testing regime to appease governments by supplying statistics that, by and large, and without doubt in English, have little to do with teaching and learning.

Sadder still to remember I wrote the following as a parent and English teacher in the latter part of the 90s [published in 1998] and this testing still exists and its meaninglessness prevails,