We steal their childhood as they are under so much exam pressure from an early age.
The first question to Morgan at the fringe last week was from an articulate and passionate Conservative youth delegate, who asked why the school system focused so much on exams at the expense of the skills and attributes needed for a successful and happy life.
Poetry is a good fit for teenagers, she feels, because it "seems like a way to convey a person's emotions, and because teens seem to be going through so much with exams and relationships that they need to be able to put it down somewhere".
A few preclinical students reported that their personal wellness is generally linked to their competence as physicians, asserting that "if we sacrifice our own health from studying too long, staying up too late, stressing out too much about exams, we can't take care of other people if we don't watch our own health first".
Aw, I think he should just have to take the exam like three times or a much harder exam," Mike Fritz, a University of Kentucky student, told CBS affiliate WKYT.
So should Freddy be given a much harder exam so he'll fail and Wendy won't feel so bad?
A report from a powerful committee of MPs, to be published shortly, also criticises Ofsted for having insufficiently trained inspectors and for relying too much on exam data in their inspection of schools.
As well as this, he expressed concern that the performance measures which are being published focus too much on exam grades and make 'no reference to the progress made by pupils', adding: "Parents need a rounded picture when they choose a secondary school.
But even for the cream of the US army's future crop, the lure of the digital world appears to have been too much, and exam performance after a full course of studying economics was lower among those in classes allowed to use devices.
My argument was that schools of all kinds have become too much like exam factories, concentrating their energies on securing passes at A to C at GCSE level, and have given too little attention to the overall development of the child and their character (the scramble for results has also been at the cost of genuine learning and creative teaching).
