G.C.S.E. results - Will cost me a fortune!

inkie

I took GCSEs when they first came out - and was promised £5 for each one that I passed at a-c. Got £35. Better get saving up for my daughter now as she's only 10, but a real bright spark!

snoozer

A friends daughter on finding out that others were being promised bikes, horses etc for passing the 11 plus asked mum what she would get.

The answer - a new school uniform.:rotfl:

Gemmzie

tesuhoha wrote:

Well we were just waiting for one retake result for my son and he got a C. I was so pleased with this that I gave him £10 for the cinema but unbenownst to myself my husband phoned my daughter at Uni, who was going to the Reading Festival, and asked if he (my husband) got my son a ticket on ebay, could he tag along with her and her mates. Unfortunately, she fell over last night and has ruptured a ligament in her ankle so will not be going to Reading. She is coming home here to rest it and this has saved us a lot of money. However, I'm not pleased about this saving as she had just got a waitress job and she has missed out on that as well as a good weekend.

Oh no! I'd hate to miss Reading if I had a ticket. A friend of mine has bleeding in her throat (:eek: ) and can't go either
Hope she feels better soon

Me_Myself_2

I think this has been a really cheery thread. Well done everyone.

themaccas

Well done to all for the GCSE passes, my DS1 got his today and has passed all 9 of them we are soooooooooooooo proud of him, he does not find school work easy and has worked very hard and revised like mad (- with no prompting from us) we have given him £100 and took him out for a lovely dinner.
Don't care about the budget today just so happy and we wanted to celebrate with him!!

Starry-eyed_surprise

Congratulations to your daughter. You deserve to be very proud of her as you have clearly supported her brilliantly in order for her to achieve such fantastic results. I guess I must be a real mean mum because I don't give my kids anything 'extra' as a reward for their exam results except to tell them how proud I am of them and how delighted I am for them. Maybe it's because this came from my own background when we also weren't given anything. I guess I feel that if they are lucky enough to have been blessed with good brains and have worked hard then that in itself should be sufficient. Not everyone is able to achieve results like that. I tell them that I think they are wonderful anyway, whatever they have got. I hope that your daughter continues to enjoy academic success. She is lucky as in all likelihood she will go to university and should be able to earn well in the future which is its own reward. Well done to you and her.:)

Me_Myself_2

I'm hoping that is eactly what she'll do and then 'look after' her mother in a purely monetary way.... big house, cars, etc..... Well that's the family joke anyway.

Starry-eyed_surprise

Me too!!!:D Might have a long wait though - one at university (planning to stay and do further study) - one just finished AS levels (also planning on lots more study) and one about to enter GCSE year ( she's already taken one early this year). Guess I'll just have to keep saving and dreaming...:rolleyes:
Let's hope our kids overtake Bill Gates one day!!

lady_fuschia

Just wanted to add a great big WELL DONE to every one who did well in their GCSE's (and a big DON'T LISTEN to all the smug g*** who claim the exams must be getting easier!)

The real reward is in the extra oppurtunities the good results give, not any financial reward your parents give you to spend at the time!

I remember the £x for every a* palava from when I was at school (did my GCSE's 1998) and I thought it was a bit strange then- seeing as for some pupils scraping a C was far more of an achievement than getting A*'s for others. Not sure if its a good thing or a bad thing- I suppose it might work with some kids- £50 does sound a bit excessive though!

I do remember one girl I knew whose parents brought her a house when she passed her degree. And when I worked in a hotel in a university town we often had proud parents asking if they could park an extra car in our car park because they'd bought it as a graduation gift for their DD/S!

Doom_and_Gloom

I'd say you should put the money in a trust fund for her to go to uni, get a car or for a deposit for a house as that way it isn't being blown on anything and everything.

Personally I didn't get anything for my GCSE's (4 C's, 2 D's and 1 E) last year or for the 2 A-Levels (1 E and 1 C) and 1 GCSE (C) I did this year. I owe my parents 24G for 2 years worth of my education (that I was lucky enough for them to send me to a private college even though it was tight and is still tight for them now) and I mean I owe them it. They say that don't mind but I know that they will need that money (infact they need it now if truth be told) even though they won't admit it.

Well done to your daughter though they are amazing results. The exams are not easy as I know all to well. So be proud of her and give a thought to the fund idea for the money you joked about giving her as I feel she would aprechiate (sp?) it.