SATs: the dangerous exam that's frying our children's brains | Dean Burnett

Often new technology or development is condemned as being "damaging to children". Why not apply that approach to the disastrous government SATs?

You may have noticed that it's very common, particularly in the more right-wing leaning media, to suggest that something is bad because it's potentially harmful to children, particularly their brains. Video games, smartphones and tablets, Facebook, the internet as a whole, screens in general, fizzy drinks, vaccines, and who knows what else. All of these have been condemned by many on the grounds that they have the potential to harm children's brains.

Susan Greenfield, for example, has made some alarming (and, some would say, evidence-light) claims about the dangers posed by new technology on the delicate, fragile minds of children