Tory shadow education spokesman Michael Gove, bouncing back from his allowances embarrassments, is right to suggest that SATS tests should be shifted from the last year in primary school to the first year in secondary school - and be marked by the teachers.
In effect this would mean scrapping the most ‘important’ SATS test (which are just there to support so-called league tables) and turning it into a way for secondary schools to assess what their new entrants could do, pretty useful really.
Labour is already bleating that this would deny parents the right to know how good their local primary schools are but they know this anyway from talking to other parents.
And SATS for 11-year-olds bugger up their last year in primary school when they should be preparing for the much more bracing (and often positively daunting) environment of secondary school.
So come on Labour, admit the things are a disaster and give children a chance.