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Formula milk questions in GCSE exam papers
 
carrots
Posted: 27 July 2010 02:33 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Have you seen this? How shocking!

http://www.nct.org.uk/press-office/press-releases/view/224

“NCT, the UK’s largest parenting charity, has today highlighted concerns that school exam papers may have been subject to the influence of commercial organisations. 

The charity has come across two recent science exam questions presenting misleading and inaccurate information that would directly benefit formula milk companies. One of the questions, which featured in a GCSE chemistry paper, also directs students to mistrust charities. ....“

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Posted: 27 July 2010 03:25 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I am speechless.

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Posted: 27 July 2010 04:00 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Unbelievable.
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Posted: 27 July 2010 04:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Brilliant. That coupled with no sex education is why we have the highest teen pregnancy rate resulting in mothers who don’t breastfeed in western Europe. Genius.

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Posted: 27 July 2010 05:31 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Wow. I’m deeply worried and shocked by this one!

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Posted: 27 July 2010 06:14 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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That made me want to cry!

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Posted: 27 July 2010 06:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Ugggh.

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Posted: 27 July 2010 07:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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I don’t know what to say!  I actually can’t believe that!

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Posted: 27 July 2010 08:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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shocking!

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Posted: 27 July 2010 08:59 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Oh no. no.no.no. Why, how can they get away with it!!?
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Posted: 27 July 2010 09:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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ok i read it differnetly. if i was sitting a chemistry exam i would answer that by ways of describing calcium carbonate is/ is not a pollutant. if calcium is a mineral we need as humans then it needs to be in baby formula. regardless of weather or not i agree with the milk given free or the comments abotu saving lives. this is a chemisty paper and should be read as such. i agree it could have been put differntly, and if i sat that exam i would have seam coming out of my ears and probably cause a fuss in an exam about it !!! i think who every wrote that question had no idea what the were writing about and do need to be corrected.

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Posted: 29 July 2010 09:47 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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It’s the subtle influence though, isn’t it? Regardless of the actual answer to the question posed, a whole bunch of 16 year olds will go out of that exam having subconsciously and erroneously been told that formula is best for developing world babies (and over time, will they still make the distinction, or will they believe it’s better for *all* babies?) and that breastfeeding is the domain of self-righteous and melodramatic do-gooders.

The problem isn’t the question itself, it’s the way in which misinformation is secreted within the question.

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Posted: 29 July 2010 10:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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Angiegw - 29 July 2010 09:47 PM

It’s the subtle influence though, isn’t it? Regardless of the actual answer to the question posed, a whole bunch of 16 year olds will go out of that exam having subconsciously and erroneously been told that formula is best for developing world babies (and over time, will they still make the distinction, or will they believe it’s better for *all* babies?) and that breastfeeding is the domain of self-righteous and melodramatic do-gooders.

The problem isn’t the question itself, it’s the way in which misinformation is secreted within the question.

Angie

Exactly!

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