Yr 10 - work experience

Ames

Even if the dates didn't clash you can't gamble on getting tickets for 2015. I've been trying for years and not been successful. So, another vote here for Glasto.

geoffky

Glastonbury will be a eye opening education for him. I was 21 before i went and still at that age,I had my eyes wide opened.

maman

daisiegg wrote: »

I agree. He is in Year 10. He has plenty of time to go to Glastonbury when he is not in compulsory education. But that is all I will say on the subject as OP specifically said she did not want to hear that sort of thing!

I suspect there are loads of posters who agree with you but it wasn't what OP wanted to hear.

VJsmum

maman wrote: »

I suspect there are loads of posters who agree with you but it wasn't what OP wanted to hear.

It isn't cos I don't want to hear it - I know you are right - but it wasn't the point of the post. I know that I am being utterly selfish in taking him out of school just because I want to go and because I want to take him (though he is a more than willing accomplice). it is more that music is just about the only thing we have in common and we both wanted to go - when/if he goes later, it won't be with me it will be with his mates. I also know that when he does go with mates, he will be OK cos he'll be able to cope with everything as we have talked through and experienced various scenarios - including someone almost definitely spiking my drink at one point :eek:

My only consolation with the fact that he will miss a few days of school is that he has said that he doesn't want to miss any other school this year in case it impacts on whether he can go to Glasto or not - he has been rather unwell over the last couple of weeks but insisted on going to school.

What I really want to know is if school can do anything about it if he doesn't do work experience that week.

meritaten

I think you are absolutely right OP! far better his first experience is with an 'older wiser adult'! and if its your only shared love - then even though I said go before - what you just said only reinforces that this will be an experience which may never be 'recreated'! and something which is more valuable than formal 'education'.........
GO!

paulineb_2

I never did work experience when I was 14 as the school couldnt find me a placement, was not a big deal at all.

Id be sacking off the work experience as well.

supersaver2

maman wrote: »

I suspect there are loads of posters who agree with you but it wasn't what OP wanted to hear.

Indeed, as a teacher I can't agree that removing a child from education is a good idea, there are many years ahead for all that. Plus schools legally have really had to tighten up the rules for time out of school, not sure what the criteria is as its not my area, but have heard of both parents being fined which have run into the many hundreds of pounds.

geoffky

supersaver2 wrote: »

Indeed, as a teacher I can't agree that removing a child from education is a good idea, there are many years ahead for all that. Plus schools legally have really had to tighten up the rules for time out of school, not sure what the criteria is as its not my area, but have heard of both parents being fined which have run into the many hundreds of pounds.

He will learn more in the weekend than you could teach him in a month...And what happens when teachers strike?
Please explain how both parents can be fined..:T

daisiegg

geoffky wrote: »

He will learn more in the weekend than you could teach him in a month...And what happens when teachers strike?
Please explain how both parents can be fined..:T

Ok, I am all on board for 'life experience' etc, but all these people going on about how much he will 'learn' at Glastonbury......really??? Like what, exactly? Bearing in mind he has been before so it is not his first time. He is not going alone so won't be getting experience in independence or fending for yourself or anything. I am not saying he shouldn't go to the festival but all these statements about 'he'll learn more there than he possibly could in school' I think are a bit, I don't know, idealistic? Can any if you pin down what exactly are these amazing valuable life lessons that you think a fourteen year old is going to learn at his second time going to Glastonbury with his mum?

Just to clarify, I am not saying he shouldn't go and I am not saying that spending time with his mum is not a valuable experience in itself. I am just questioning all these grand claims of 'oh he will learn so much' and genuinely wondering what you actually mean.

supersaver2

geoffky wrote: »

He will learn more in the weekend than you could teach him in a month...And what happens when teachers strike?
Please explain how both parents can be fined..:T

I seriously doubt this year 10 child would learn more at a music festival than in my classroom learning A Level Chemistry for a month.

As stated I'm not entirely sure how the fine system works, but it isn't the school that enforces the rules and in a 2 parent household each parent is fined separately for each day of unauthorised absence.