I thought we were in an age of austerity and that the government were trying to save money, cutting back everywhere!

But not at the Department of Education! It seems they are flowing with funds and are desperately thinking up wheezes to justify their salaries!

Someone at the D of E, with a cushy job that is surely first in line come the next round of cutbacks, has being paid to come up with the latest ridiculous wheeze to burden Key Stage 1 children who,  it seems, are not being tested to breaking point enough: KS1 children are no longer allowed to use exclamation marks unless the sentence begins with the word How or What.

What the… ?!!!!!

How totally, utterly, mind-bogglingly stupid is that?!!!!!

This is not testing, this is social engineering. What next?! No question marks incase the DofE have to provide embarrassing answers?!

Really!!!!

This whole testing madness has gone too far!!!!

If there is any honour left in the world, someone at the DofE will be offering their resignation.