Student threatens legal action over UK school results algorithm - Business Insider

Curtis Parfitt-Ford, an A-level student who is threatening to sue the UK government over the algorithm it used to decide exam results.A British school student is threatening to sue the UK government over an algorithm that was used to determine final grades after national exams were cancelled due to the pandemic.

Curtis Parfitt-Ford, a student at a comprehensive school in London, is working with the justice non-profit Foxglove to initiate legal proceedings this week if the UK government does not change its policy. During a chaotic 72 hours, the UK government has tried to justify the process it has used to determine final results in a year where students have been unable to sit exams thanks to the pandemic.The UK's education regulator, Ofqual, has explained how the grading process, aka the algorithm, works in a. Broadly, it relies on two things: the school's own assessment of how an individual student should do; and wider information on how the school did on exam results in prior years.

"A computer programme has determined the life chances of thousands and thousands and thousands of British kids," added Crider. "[And] it's turned out to be designed in a way that is biased and unfair." "It's particularly disadvantaging that especially bright kids from the underperforming school who is on track to get that school's first A* in Maths. That kid was totally stuffed by this algorithm," said Crider. "Whereas if you went to a tiny little independent fee-paying school and studied classics, a lot more often, you were fine.

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SO the young snowflake generation are angry and blaming lousy software algorithms and government for their exam results....so how do they think the rest of the planet is feeling, when those similar algorithms were used by Prof Ferguson to shut down planet earth?

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