Parents plan legal action over new tests for four-year-olds
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With a protest march next week and plans to take the Government to court, campaigners are making their voices heard.
By Liz Lightfoot
On Thursday next week Kay Tart, from Hitchin in Hertfordshire, will help her daughter Isla dress in the uniform she will wear when she starts school in September. She will make sure the four-year-old’s favourite book and soft toy are in her backpack, but they won’t be heading to school. They will be joining other parents and children on the ‘march of the four-year-olds’ to 10 Downing Street, where Isla will get her first taste of democracy.
The children will hand in a 65,000-signature petition against the new ‘baseline’ tests the government plans for children aged four and five. They will be piloted at hundreds of schools in September ready for their introduction England-wide at the start of the new school year in 2020.
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