Are school exams putting too much pressure on young people? Birmingham shares its views

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With GCSEs, A-Levels and more keeping students busy, we ask people in Birmingham if today’s education system puts too much pressure on young people through constant testing.

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00:00I think like education is key to any development of a nation.

00:05Education is very crucial and I feel like they've got all the support that they need

00:10so I don't think there's any form of pressure.

00:12They've got the mental disability support in their schools.

00:16They've got all the support system available for them

00:19so I don't think there's any form of pressure at all.

00:22Yeah, I think they really are.

00:23Like, I think it's served a purpose for a long time.

00:26Like, people doing all this stressful GCSEs, A-levels

00:31and half of them are not even doing it later on in life.

00:34Like, getting in lots of debt and stuff.

00:36Like, I just don't think...

00:38I think for the children of Aaraj, with everything that they're against at the minute, it's too much.

00:43I really think the education system's moved away from setting children up for success

00:49to moulding them into, don't have the right word to say,

00:54but moulding them into not, you know...

00:56Ox.

00:57Yeah.

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