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Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Welcome to Madmumni. Its really sad that your son thought he hadn't done well. Unfortunately it is all too common.

My house is semi reasonable now. Wanted it clean for celebrating tomorrow. See I'm in an optimistic 30 seconds now. :rotfl::rotfl:

I drove past Grosvenor this afternoon and there were 2 magpies sitting on the lawn. That has to be a sign doesn't it?

Not quite a 'lurker', haven't joined in in a while.
Also on wine and have been enjoying the craic!
Son got 118 and ist choice grosvenor (July birthday) so not suffering the same angst as some (but do sympathise):o
Is your son musical by any chance? Could they be in the same band??

kingston_2730

10DaystoGo..AHHHHHHHHH wrote: »

Sounds like you were comfortably numb at that concert:D Yah Man:A:A:rotfl::rotfl::eek::j:T:snow_laug:snow_laug:idea::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle::whistle:

You're too funny :rotfl::T yah man!!;)

10DaystoGo..AHHHHHHHHH

kingston_2730 wrote: »

It is very confusing and principle of Carrick grammar had to explain it to me a few times. Basically, its rank order for a percentage of the places (in most cases 90%) and then for the remaining 10% of cases they go down in rank order again and make a pool of kids for the remaining places. However, the number of kids in this pool is greater than the number of places remaining. Each child in this pool is then treated equally, irrespective of their score and then other criteria is applied. Sooooo, for illustrative purposes, lets say its Belfast High, the first 90 places are allocated in rank order. There are 10 places remaining. The next 15 kids will be chosen using rank order and placed in a pool where all will be treated equal (so my son's score of 102 will be equal to another child's score of 99). The other criteria is then applied. Child with score of 99 has a brother attending the school, my son doesn't, child with score of 99 gets the place over my son. This other criteria is applied to the pool until all the remaining 10 places are filled. If 10 of the children have siblings at the school, my son will be left in the remaining 5 that did not get a place even though his score may be higher than the 10 who got a place. I apologise if you already understood this system. It took me a while to understand what it meant so just wanted to pass it on to anyone who didn't quite know what it meant

Thanks for explaining that, I hadn't a clue:)

kingston_2730

Ex-Spendaholic wrote: »

Welcome to Madmumni. Its really sad that your son thought he hadn't done well. Unfortunately it is all too common.

My house is semi reasonable now. Wanted it clean for celebrating tomorrow. See I'm in an optimistic 30 seconds now. :rotfl::rotfl:

I drove past Grosvenor this afternoon and there were 2 magpies sitting on the lawn. That has to be a sign doesn't it?

Exspendi, don't leave us now. Forget the house. Mine's a tip and I have a class of goodness knows how many P7s descending on my home tomorrow for a BBQ :eek:

Ex-Spendaholic

Yes he is musical. He isn't in any external bands though.

kingston_2730

Would really like to see the article in irish times.Tried to see if I could look at it online but can't find it. Does anyone know if I can read it online?

kingston_2730

We're missing neveranymoney tonight!! Where are you?

Stressed_mum_2

kingston_2730 wrote: »

Would really like to see the article in irish times.Tried to see if I could look at it online but can't find it. Does anyone know if I can read it online?

I think you have to subscribe to be able to read it - the website seems to have a minimum of £5 for a weeks subs. They don't seem to have a one off subscription unfortunately. I tried to post a jpeg of the article this morning, but it wouldn't work.

Stressed_mum_2

Oh, by the way, it was in the Irish News - not the Irish Times! The website is www.irishnews.com.

Ex-Spendaholic

Neveranymoney was arrested this afternoon for impersonating a postwoman. :rotfl:

I have the Irish News. I haven't any facilities to scan it in though. I could type it up. Alternatively I could scan it on Tuesday in work.