Hello all
My son is certain he has failed his AS levels and I hate to say this but I think he is right. I don't actually know why he was hardly ever in but his attendance up until recently was 65%.
In previous years his attendance never dropped below 90%, he does suffer from anxiety and he has claimed he has felt depressed and stressed over his a levels but I think he just talked himself into it and made it worse by not turning up to school 35% of the time he was meant to be there.
The school have been very supportive of him, they've tolerated him being off loads despite them having no legal obligation to let him continue in their school, they even allowed him to go home during his frees so he could study but he done no such thing, he just came home and done nothing all year.
He is a very intelligent person, he got 5 As 2Bs and 1 C in his GCSEs. Last year he only started revising the night before his exams and managed to come out with those results so he thought he could do the same with ASs and he sat two exams last week and only started revising a few days before, now he knows he hasn't done as well as he could have done and is annoyed at himself for being so silly, despite his dad and I as well as teachers constantly telling him to revise months beforehand.
He is now saying he realises the massive mistake he has made and that he knows he will pay for it in his poor results. He says he feels really down because he won't have any nice results to look forward to in August and that he really regrets his attitude this year.
I've reassured him that he can always repeat Year 12 or he can carry on into Year 13 but repeat some of the papers next summer, he now realises that he's created himself a lot more work next year for no reason. He has said that he would find it difficult repeating a year as he would be a year below his friends.
I don't know how else to reassure him, its not that he's not capable, he just didn't put any effort in this year at all. He has said he recognises that it's his fault but he keeps moaning on about how he's so annoyed at himself and that he's really disappointed that he will get bad results despite being told that he can repeat them
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Son made a mess of Year 12
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user400 · 19/05/2018 20:04
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