If you set targets, you help rapists. Discuss.

[LondonMix]

Yes, I agree that the school issue while important seems less a test of basic human decency than the rape issue with the police. It's a difficult issue to address. I feel for your sister.

legalbeagle Wrote:

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> It happens in schools too, I'm told. My sister

> teaches the first year at senior school. She tells

> me that because Junior school are supposed to have

> achieved certain levels/improvements for each

> child by the time they leave the school, the

> Junior school marks they enter her school with are

> (sometimes) inflated considerably. She then either

> has to continue the fictional achievements of the

> school, or mark them honestly, which then reflects

> badly on her school, as though the child as either

> got worse or gone backwards.

>

> In a different, perhaps less immediately offensive

> way to the rape example, this is equally worrying.

>

>

> No one along the way has thought about what the

> child is actually learning or achieving (except my

> sis who marks honestly and takes the rap.......)

>

> It seems that vast numbers of us will just attempt

> to meet the target, regardless of the effect on

> the underlying people who need help.

>

> Does anyone have examples of where this is NOT how

> humans react?