This Morning viewers were left outraged today after remarks about teachers made by one guest.
During the This Morning View section of the show hosts Rylan Clark and Ruth Langsford spoke to Sonia Sodha and Natasha Devon.
One of the topics covered was the GCSE results, which are due out on Thursday.
Rylan said: “I do think that schools need to be preparing children for real life. They need to be preparing them for…tax. Life skills.”
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He continued: “I feel like I lacked life skills, but I knew what Pythagoras’ theorem was. Now, I’m not Carol Vorderman. I don’t need to worry too much about that.”
Natasha agreed adding that the current method of testing students with one big exam isn’t fair.
She said: “An exam measures your ability to regurgitate a fairly arbitrary set of facts under pressure and time conditions.”
So far, so fair.
But then Sonia added: “When you look at children from disadvantaged backgrounds, they are ”
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