Angry, upset and annoyed or over reacting rant

squibbs25

mandragora wrote: »

That's a fib. The exam will go ahead.It's a published timetable from an external body. It's just that your child's school has decided it's not in their interests as a school to enter your child for it (presumably along with a whole slew of other pupils). Your child could still do it, and I'd want to know why, if it was the right thing for your child to do it on the 28th September, why it's not the right thing for them now. The ability to 'bank' good marks and carry successful components forward and retake the elements they want to improve is still there for your child - not a single thing has changed for them. It's just that Gove has done what no other person in his job has ever considered doing before and changed the rules just as the kids are coming up to the exams. Not only is he d*cking about with the profession now, where we get paid to turn up every day, and so it's a choice that we make; the logical consequences of his 'moving the goalposts' two minutes before the final whistle is that he's now affecting the pupils themselves. This to me is what puts him and his cronies beyond the pale. If it was my child, I'd be hopping mad and on the phone to my constituency MP in a heartbeat - and either just before or just after, on the phone to the school, demanding to see the head and the chair of govs.

I spoke with my ds when he came home from school (I'd already posted on here) and he said that the foundation exam IS still going ahead for the kids in the lower sets. There are approx 10 children from his class who won't be taking the exam as they are the higher achievers and will now take higher papers in June.

So yes it's all still a farce.
It's the kids I feel sorry for :-(

maman

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Gove's all about making things harder for anybody to fulfill their potential unless they are just like he was as a kid. It's not based upon raising standards, it's personal ideology masquerading as policy.

Might this help? It does me.:D

celler

Looks like you may no longer need it, but I'll post anyways.
Perhaps you can educate you lad or he can educate himself if needed.
Plenty of sites online give lessons/lectures freely to teach those willing to learn.

http://patrickjmt.com/
https://www.khanacademy.org/

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Lavendyr wrote: »

I went to a grammar school and you could do music and art up to A Level, as well as all ranges of technology - woodwork, electronics, design etc. Think you are generalising a wee bit!

Well, sort of - going by my sister's account of her time at the only grammar school in the area. She was 'kindly' offered the opportunity to take Russian as well as Typing and Home Economics/Needlework, in addition to the usual English Lang/Lit, Maths, Science, History and Geography.