"One old friend told me he had a huge crush on me in kindergarten, and it tore him apart when we weren't put inthesame class in first grade, " she said.
Examiners will struggle too, to produce a single test that measures thesame level of ability in children of different ages. (In music tests all candidates for a given grade play thesame pieces: in an English test, quite different reading texts and writing topics would suit an eight-year-old than an 11-year-old.) The changes might even have the perverse effect of making children sit more tests.
Likewise, the neighboring 559 units of Golden Lane Estate built in 1963 by thesame architects, also Grade II though less costly, are eagerly snapped up by mid century design purists.