6th Form offered a place on the basis that she needed to get B in two writing subjects (but she didn't share this with us and told us that two other subjects were the problem so of course we concentrated on those!). She got one B and one C (both in English), and one A (Religious Studies), and the rest were D or below, including Maths and Science. The 6th Form retracted the offer of a place on the basis that she had chosen 4 writing subjects at A Level and that she had not proven she had the ability to cope with lots of writing subjects.
She put very little work into her GCSEs, revised for a grand total of a few hours, was very over confident despite all this and was shocked when she received the results she did.
She, in typical teenage fashion, will not consider doing any courses other that the ones she had chosen to do, won't consider going to half the local colleges (because they are for 'dumb people'), only the colleges which require far above what she has achieved and only to do the courses she wants to do (all of which are heavy writing subjects that ask for more than she has achieved).
In also typical fashion, on results day she refused to tell us what had happened, spoke to the school herself without telling us what they said, and now will only say that they told her to try elsewhere but that they weren't taking her. I can't believe that this is correct as the school are normally very good and must have had more to offer on the situation, so I am waiting to hear back from the school but Bank Holiday has made it difficult.
I'm stuck not knowing what the options are - I understand that she is meant to stay in education for another year, but I am beginning to get less hopeful that she will get a full time education place - mainly down to her inability to be flexible or consider other options aside from her chosen topics, I can imagine a college can offer her courses still even with such a short time till the beginning of term, but she wouldn't accept any course other than her chosen subjects, which isn't going to happen!
Has anyone got any advice - who to contact or where to look? You would think there was a wealth of advice for failed gcses but I'm struggling to locate it. Also have a million questions - under the new laws she can work full time and do a part time course - but can this be online learning? Is online learning funded for under 18s? I'm trying to think of all the options, though I can see even less success with her getting a job since she has sat on her backside since exam leave started and is not at all bothered about the lack of money :(
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Poor GCSE result - school removed offer of 6th form place, what next?
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notjustme · 26/08/2013 23:01
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