I do feel that children should learn their timetables and not rely on technology. It is quite shocking how many kids nowadays don't know them. When I was younger you could hear the children chanting them when you passed schools. There was nothing wrong with that. We had regular short tests, weekly, to see how we were doing (on all subjects by the way). Maths didn't come easy to me, but I did learn it by having to drum it in and practice, practice, practice. And I'm glad I did and had to. I never use a calculator.

What is wrong with testing kids about what they are learning.

They say in the article that children are already tested too much. On what? Their spelling? Geography? History? I haven't seen much evidence of that at my children's primary school.

We don't want to harp on about the “old days”, but we went to school to learn, not to have fun.

Of course nowadays knowledge is just a click of a button away. Why retain it in your head? I can see the point in a way. There will be more space left for...........................I don't know, Tinder, Twitter, Facebook, Pof..........................fun stuff.

Just because we have the technology to do it all for us should we become so depended on it?