I hear that the Welsh government wants to monitor home educators.
Because they want to make home education as good as school education. (huh!)
Wherein lots of people get bullied, hurt, strips torn off them for not being good at P.E. and sneered at because they like classical music because we're all supposed to be 'the same'.
Because we've all got to pass tests because people need to know where we're at even though we're good at something and you only have to give us that something to do to be able to know that we're good at it. And other people who have passed lots and lots of tests may not be good at the somethings that they've passed the tests in.
I passed an exam in Geography years ago. Darned if I can ever find Puerto Rico or Syria or Dornoch on a globe or a map though.
Tests are for companies to make lots of money out of.
Tests are for computers because computers score very highly in tests.
I used to take lots and lots of tests at school. Couldn't tell you what I learned while studying. Maybe I learned the stuff I might have needed to know on the test, but then it all got flushed because I didn't need it for any more tests.
You do something because you're good at it and everyone thinks it's pretty or useful or clever or looks nice, and then you make money out of it.
Test-makers make money out of tests. Test-makers make money out of people taking tests.
You can tell I don't like tests/exams/monitoring/people trying to assess other people because
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