[duaoebg]

I’m no fan of ham fisted normalization.... but I think the bigger issue is the fairness aspect of thresholding based on class sizes.

I think it should be possible to create ‘virtual classes’ above the threshold by combining smaller like classes together.

Such a model would be fairly ham fisted.

[truculent]

This is not merely "ham-fisted normalisation". In many cases, the student's attainment is being completely ignored!

> but I think the bigger issue is

The tricky thing about this scandal is that it is actually about 8 different catastrophes for students all enmeshed together. This makes it hard to know where to start critisising the government.