Bristolians Answer: How much attention do you pay to school league tables, and do you think they reflect the quality of education?

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What do you think is more important in choosing a school—its place in the league tables or the overall environment and ethos? Do you think league tables put too much pressure on schools, teachers, and students, or do they help raise standards?

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00:00Awful. I was in education for 15 years so that's the worst thing you can do for

00:05a child's esteem. It's discrimination actually.

00:09How much kind of attention would you pay to school league tables, do you think?

00:14Do you think it reflects the quality of education?

00:20The entire system, the entire education system needs to be rebuilt.

00:25It's too archaic, I don't know how you say it in English, but it needs to be updated.

00:33Yeah, I don't normally tend to pay attention to them. Also, I think it kind of really depends

00:38for me, especially because I'm an international student so I've kind of been exposed to different

00:43types of schools and that the rating kind of changes every so often.

00:48Mixed reviews, I guess. There are some schools that kind of like them because they do well

00:52and then there are schools that feel they're unfairly treated or unfairly judged by Ofsted,

00:58I think it is.

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