DD1 is 15, almost 16, and is taking her GCSEs this summer. She is, and always has been, extremely clever, and should do very well.
However, she attends a top ultra-selective private girls' school where the pressure to get straight As is, in my opinion, ridiculous.
(long story - she went to state primary, her headmaster advised us to try for a scholarship at this school for secondary, she ended up getting a huge scholarship making it affordable for us)
The key worry DD has is that the school award a 'prize' to every girl in the year who gets at least 9As; when their GCSE certificates are awarded in assembly, it is read out who got this prize and who didn't, so everybody knows whether you got 9As. A list of the 'prize'-winners is also published on the school website and in the school magazine. About 2/3 of the girls achieve this every year.
DD has started having weekly panic attacks and nightmares about GCSE results - in her mind, the results that would be a disaster and utterly humiliating would be 8As and 2As, because then 'everybody would know that I hadn't got 10As'.
To me, the sort of school where 8As and 2As is synonymous with failure is not a healthy environment. I massively regret sending DD there now.
I know I'm not going to be able to get the school to change the 'prize', but would I be unreasonable to speak to them about the sort of pressure they're putting on their students?
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Rachel178 · 23/01/2018 16:54
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