Frances Laing and her daughter Ruth. Photo: Photo courtesy Frances Laing.
Stop league tables for five-year-olds
League tables petition gets off to a strong start
by Symon Hill
26th January 2011
A Quaker mother has pioneered a campaign against the introduction of school league tables for five-year-olds. Frances Laing of Chester Meeting has attracted over a thousand signatures for a petition calling on the government to abandon the idea.
