Page 6 | To be surprised you mumsnetters criticised my ex’s school !!

Jumell · 2024-12-08T15:48:17+00:00

My ex went to an all boys’ comprehensive school in London. It’s been slagged off to the ground on here as being rough, not being the school of choice for MC parents, results are dire etc etc . However he did leave the school in one piece and with 2 CSEs no less!! (OK showing his age a bit!) But the pearl clutchiness about his school on MN is immense !! 🤣 - I didn’t do CSEs btw so don’t truly know how good 2 CSEs is. He left school in 1986 FYI - I was still a young school kid then, Dunno - was 2 CSEs good for 1986?! FWIW the comp I went to wasn’t short for ‘comprehensive’ - more compost heap - but that’s possibly the subject of another thread. !

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/12/2024 17:39

ForkHandlesNotFourCandles · 08/12/2024 17:11

Its a shame you’ve picked up on colour there .
Not all English people are white

Education is the way up

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It's not a shame, it's my entire point. White working-class English people historically had a far worse attitude to education than the Scots and the Irish. British children from families who are first, second or third generation immigrants from various parts of Asia and West Africa typically get some of the best exam results nowadays.

FeegleFrenzy · 08/12/2024 17:39

Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:08

Cos I thought getting 2 exams of which there is a huge course work element v impressive - lots of kids CBA with coursework

in fact a lot of kids cba

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You have a low bar.

plenty of kids can be bothered.

TiredCatLady · 08/12/2024 17:39

OP you are talking out of your arse like most of your other threads on here.

Only pearls being clutched are your own imaginary ones.

Tubetrain · 08/12/2024 17:37

CSEs were what you did if you weren't academic enough for O'levels.

2 of them is basically leaving school unqualified. surely you must realise that?

MildredSauce · 08/12/2024 17:37

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 08/12/2024 17:33

Are you also bored? Because I’ve lost count how many nonsensical threads you’ve tried to start over the last week.
Also, going by one of your other many, many threads, you can’t have been any younger than 12 or 13 in ‘86, so would have a perfectly fine understanding of CSEs as you were in secondary school

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She's talked about her best friend at college being 34. She's talked about life in the 70's. She's all over the place, frankly

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:36

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 08/12/2024 17:33

Are you also bored? Because I’ve lost count how many nonsensical threads you’ve tried to start over the last week.
Also, going by one of your other many, many threads, you can’t have been any younger than 12 or 13 in ‘86, so would have a perfectly fine understanding of CSEs as you were in secondary school

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No - no one even close to me in sec school did CSEs I was 2nd yr of GCSEs so no understanding of the CSE system

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C152 · 08/12/2024 17:36

Don't understand what's lighthearted about any of your responses. I also clearly don't read the same posts as you, as I don't recall a lot of 'pearl clutching' about schools in deprived areas. At the end of the day, who cares where he went to school? You don't need qualifications to be a good person. And at the time he finished school, it was easier to get an entry level job and work your way up so, arguably, although it would have helped open more doors, you didn't need qualifications to end up with a job either.

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:35

DowntonFlabbie · 08/12/2024 17:32

Plenty of us went to schools in deprived areas. We're not shocked. I'd bet mine was worse than your fellas, but I got 13 GCSEs

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That’s good - you did better than me

I hated school - but went to an FE college for my A levels - I worked hard there from the very first day - not just before the exams - and got 3 As ! Everyone says I was a swot but I cared not a jot !

but my school that I sat GCSEs was absolutely shit !!!!!!!

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WhimsicalGubbins76 · 08/12/2024 17:33

Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:29

Neither really - but lots of people are very precious about schools in ‘deprived’ ‘areas’

and I suppose I was trying to be more lighthearted than provocative

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Are you also bored? Because I’ve lost count how many nonsensical threads you’ve tried to start over the last week.
Also, going by one of your other many, many threads, you can’t have been any younger than 12 or 13 in ‘86, so would have a perfectly fine understanding of CSEs as you were in secondary school

DowntonFlabbie · 08/12/2024 17:32

Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:18

His school was apparently in a deprived area.

As soon as you mention the two magic words ‘deprived’ and ‘area’ on MN in the same sentence relating to a school , you can hear simultaneously the

sharp intakes of breath - and

the gentle crackle of pearls being clutched ! 🤣

Plenty of us went to schools in deprived areas. We're not shocked. I'd bet mine was worse than your fellas, but I got 13 GCSEs

DowntonFlabbie · 08/12/2024 17:30

Jumell · 08/12/2024 15:56

Come on - 2 CSEs are a fair old effort !

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Are they though?

x2boys · 08/12/2024 17:30

MildredSauce · 08/12/2024 17:26

Are you trying to provoke @Jumell or are you trying to be witty?

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This poster has Been all-over aibu this week with some controversial threads i keep recognising the user name ..

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:29

MildredSauce · 08/12/2024 17:26

Are you trying to provoke @Jumell or are you trying to be witty?

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Neither really - but lots of people are very precious about schools in ‘deprived’ ‘areas’

and I suppose I was trying to be more lighthearted than provocative

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ForkHandlesNotFourCandles · 08/12/2024 17:29

MildredSauce · 08/12/2024 17:26

Are you trying to provoke @Jumell or are you trying to be witty?

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Given OPs written English isn’t bad I think it’s safe to assume she was perfectly capable of researching what two CSEs really means and
YES
this thread is a wind up.

MildredSauce · 08/12/2024 17:26

Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:18

His school was apparently in a deprived area.

As soon as you mention the two magic words ‘deprived’ and ‘area’ on MN in the same sentence relating to a school , you can hear simultaneously the

sharp intakes of breath - and

the gentle crackle of pearls being clutched ! 🤣

Are you trying to provoke @Jumell or are you trying to be witty?

AmusedMaker · 08/12/2024 17:26

This thread would make sense if you’d married him & he’s now a millionaire. But he’s an ex?

( Incidentally, quite a few people leave school with nothing and become millionaires 😄 )

pimplin · 08/12/2024 17:25

What a weird post.

MonkeyHair · 08/12/2024 17:21

This is the weirdest thread ever!

You've posted to say that you can't believe people slag off your ex's school. Then go on to explain how your ex has 2 shit qualifications, having failed another 5 but making out like this makes him some kind of genius as other boyfriends have had none

Then casually mention that it was also violent. Yeah the mind boggles as to why the school didn't/doesn't get a great rep!!

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:20

CranfordScones · 08/12/2024 17:19

Back in the great and glorious days of the GLC and ILEA. Given a few more years, they'd have got him down to 1 CSE...

lol let’s bring those days back - along with the fabulous YTS !!!! 🙌

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CranfordScones · 08/12/2024 17:19

Back in the great and glorious days of the GLC and ILEA. Given a few more years, they'd have got him down to 1 CSE...

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:18

His school was apparently in a deprived area.

As soon as you mention the two magic words ‘deprived’ and ‘area’ on MN in the same sentence relating to a school , you can hear simultaneously the

sharp intakes of breath - and

the gentle crackle of pearls being clutched ! 🤣

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godmum56 · 08/12/2024 17:16

cse's actually overlapped gce's They were what you took if you weren't going to pass gcs's......sorry but its true

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 17:16

AlwaysRight1985 · 08/12/2024 17:15

I went to a total sink school in a total sink town in the 1990s, might as well have been in a zoo rather than a school. Still managed 7 A*s and 3 As

That I must admit is very very good

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AlwaysRight1985 · 08/12/2024 17:15

I went to a total sink school in a total sink town in the 1990s, might as well have been in a zoo rather than a school. Still managed 7 A*s and 3 As

adriftinadenofvipers · 08/12/2024 17:14

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 08/12/2024 16:20

The King also has a degree from Cambridge. (Yes, I know normal entry criteria didn't apply in his case.)

I'd forgotten about AO levels. At my school there was just AO Further Maths available for girls doing Science A levels but not Maths A level. (It was a girls' school - not saying the boys didn't have to do the AO level!)

No idea how CSEs were marked but I know A levels were marked quite differently from now (O levels too?). Nowadays I believe the grade boundaries are decided as actual marks in advance, so if a candidate gets (say) 80% or over they get an A star, 70-80% they get an A, etc etc. If the majority of candidates get over 80%, they all get an A star. The mark is awarded for reaching a certain level and says nothing about how everyone else did.

Decades ago what they decided in advance was what percentage of the candidates should get each grade. So if there was a subject with 6000 candidates and they'd decided that the top 10% would get an A, they'd rank all the marks in order and the top 600 got an A even if the actual marks were quite low (e.g. if it was a really tough paper). You were being graded on your performance relative to everyone else. An A was rare because that was how the system was designed.

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An A wasn't that rare. A load of my classmates got them back in the day. I got 2 A and 2 B.

There was no A though. A irrationally pisses me off lol!