Urgent..Need your advice..please..

Gareth1_2

mandi wrote:

Thought you might be around Gareth..:D

awww bless you, i didnt realised ya missed me when im not about;)

Back on topic though hey, how did your son get on?

mandi

Gareth1 wrote:

awww bless you, i didnt realised ya missed me when im not about;)

Back on topic though hey, how did your son get on?

Hi everone ,
:wave: Just for those of you who might want to know whats happened

Called school at 8.15, given three options

1. take exam , without glasses.. ( not an option)

2. explain to exam board, with cover notes form optician, and/ or my sons eye surgeon, his difficulty sitting the exam, without his glasses, and marks given on course work

3. Go for new glasses, be back in school before exam finished



We went for option 3..........:j

Mad race into town, Vision Express at 9am,, Yes they can do them within the hour, :j Brillant.. Until they asked me for £110.00, which I dont have...
Had to call my sons dad, who I rarely speak to, to ask for the money...
He was out of town....:mad:

Soo we decided to go to the optician we bought the damaged pair at.. Were a very smiley lady said she would get a new lens fitted, by 3pm ... and no later.. :eek:








Im sorry to have to tell you that my son missed his exam, theres just know way he can see well enough without his specs...

On the brightside.. Ive managed to get the money together, sons in Opticians as I speak, and he will have a brand new pair ready for His GCSE Maths on Monday..:j

Im going to speak to the school again, and find out what our next move is regarding the French, as my sons predicted grade was a C

Hope I havent bored you all too much

Youve been very kind and helpful :T


Mandi xx

aimee21j

Thats terrible Mandi! I thought the school would have done more to help :mad:
I would have thought if you can get some sort of note from the optitians or even doctor to say why he couldn't do the exam, they may be able to take his mock grade into account and add it to his speaking grade. Pester the school about this.
Good luck!

misty

It's not the school but the exam board that set the rules. It's unfortunate that it was the night before the exam as otherwise they could have made special arrangements with exam boards consent. I had a student this year who had a close relative die on the morning of the exam - the most we could do is fill in the special consideration form - therefore after it has been marked - their estimated exam grade and coursework marks will be taken into account.

It's a shame your son couldn't sit his exam but it's not the end of the world. I'm not being trite - he can at least do it next year. He does have a mum who has done everything possible to help him and that's something he will remember when he's long forgotten his exam.

Gareth1_2

Oh sorry to hear your son missed his exam and i hope you get things sorted;)

ruthyjo

So sorry to hear the outcome of this.

Couldn't you have got just one lense refitted to replace the broken one. Surely that couldn't have cost so much? Still I expect you would have tried that if it were a possibility.

I have a vague memory from my own GCSE days (I was in the first year to sit them) that you could do a resit in November rather than wait 'til the next summer. There was a lot less coursework in those days so this might not still be an option but definitely worth investigating, especially for French which you might forget quite fast if not speaking it any more.

I really hope he wasn't hoping to carry on and do French AS/A level. If not reassure him that lots of people have exam passes that have played no useful part in their post school life - I've never felt the need to refer to my A Level in Ancient History since I took it (up till now anyway!).

p.s. good luck in the maths, thank goodness it wasn't that one, much more useful in life I expect.

homersimpson_3

my heart goes out to both of you. why not option 2? what was his course work like? if it went just on this , what would his anticipated grade be? school would know or have a good idea. what does son want to do? how crucial is subject to future career plans? does he want to travel, get involved in career needing GCSE French or stay on and do A Level French etc. why £110 for a repair of one lens? my friend doesn't pay this for 2 pairs (one pair free) and her pescription is difficult because her eye sight is quite bad! Vision Express are arguably taking the proverbial. you'd think they'd rush it through because of circumstances & not charge as much because your son has enough to worry about with exams. he has a maths exam on monday and doesn't need the episode with the French one hanging over his head. Sending him lots and lots of luck.

tesuhoha

Mandi, just seen this thread. I work at a school and I think they should have offered a scribe and a reader if you had medical evidence to show the exam secretary. I'm not entirely sure about this but on the training video we were shown a boy turning up with his arm in plaster and he was entitled to a scribe. I am an invigilator in exams and have been used as a scribe and as it was a French exam, he would have had to spell every word. However, as he has missed the exam now I think you have to get some kind of medical certificate to show the school and they will assess his grade from his past work. If you want him to take a resit he can take one as early as November. I hope he gets on well with the rest of his exams

coolio_2

Sorry to sound uncaring but surely if you knew you had to buy a new pair of glasses you would have a credit card on you or something to pay for them with. For your son to miss his exam for the sake of £110 isn't very fair on him.

silvercar

I don't know your circumstances at all, but I find it unbelievable that you would jeopardise your sons GCSEs in this way.

I would borrow or beg to get that £110. Vision express could have been more helpful in the circumstances but we all have a responsibility to our children. It is not up to vision express to provide your son with the means to do his exams, its your responsiblity as a parent. If you weren't prepared to pay, why should they?

The amount of exam pressure that children face these days is excessive. To walk out of a shop when you could have sorted things out for him is just unfair in my opinion.