Quote Originally Posted by Rjk View Post
Most of what we are seeing here can be explained by socio economic differences. Wales is and has always been amongst the poorest parts of the UK (and will always be the case as long as we remain in the UK). If you look at similar parts of England (i.e. the North East) then Wales' results are pretty similar.
Also sadly, one of the things that emerged during covid was that the disruption to school had a far more pronounced effect on poorer pupils than it did on richer ones.
Taking those things into account the changes in performance since the last pisa scores are basically the same
Nonsense it's because Wales locked down longer and enjoyed work from home and close the schools, Drakeford wasn't concerned about education, he wanted to be different from England, worse different, much worse different, totally idiotic different it didn't matter, he had his thirty seconds of fame, look at me butt I'm different, why won't proper politicians talk to me butt, I want to lock down for years see!