How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start | Polly Toynbee

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How can we stop destroying the prospects of a generation? Scrapping compulsory GCSE resits will be a start | Polly Toynbee

Michael Gove calls the axing of his Tory strategy ‘bringing back stupid’. He doesn’t seem to care that it did more harm than good GCSE results day was marked with the usual front pages filled with pictures of beaming students. What you didn’t see was the invisible third of 16-year-olds in England who failed their maths and English GCSEs, the obstacle to their future. That’s 360,000 failed in a system designed by Mic…