The Olympics are only ever about winning?

[alexandral]

Gmm, this put a spanner in my wheels of Olympic joy : The Olympics have never expressed an ethical imperative, only ever a selfish one. War without the guns. Some of the points are really hitting home: the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, infamous Own the Podium programme, bad weather conditions. But ?

Tangentially, I dislike (or more correctly: find difficult) one of the things about educational system in the UK: it seems that a big amount of effort is spent on obscuring your child's results. How well is he/she doing? Where are they in comparison with everyone in the class? If you take your child's yearly report , most likely you will not find an answer to any of those questions, all you will find is 6 sheets full of common phrases. Personally I had to go and almost drag the answers out of the teachers (I bet they labeled me "that pushy Russian mother" in my daughter's school) and still ,the answers given are never precise, but always fuzzy and almost incomprehensible unless you spend hours and hours researching. Why am I ranting about that? I think that the attempts to cover the results are part of attempting to make education "ethical, not selfish".

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[alexandral.livejournal.com]

This is precisely my point. This year is the year of SATs for my daughter , so I felt I had to find (Internet is a wonderful place) some examples of SATs, for the purpose of practice. I knew they were doing similar tests during the previous years, but I haven't realised how comprehensive the tests are. Every child has a mark after every year - why are the parents never told what it is?