To think that 4 G.C.S.E's needed to do business studies is ridiculous

Come òn! Would you be happy if your 16 year old had these....after all those years at school?

I am grateful for the posters who have given me useful information, as a side note to do with his behaviour i am not excusing what he has done, but people make mistakes! I have no idea why other non muslim students are even allowed in the prayer room in the first place.
To everyone else on their high horses, how does it feel calling a 16 year old child horrible names for fucking up once?
Must be nice to be so god damn perfect.

Come òn! Would you be happy if your 16 year old had these....after all those years at school?

They are not ,they are level 2 qualifications wether you like that or not 🙄🙄🙄🙄

THEY ARE !

I am grateful for the posters who have given me useful information, as a side note to do with his behaviour i am not excusing what he has done, but people make mistakes! I have no idea why other non muslim students are even allowed in the prayer room in the first place.
To everyone else on their high horses, how does it feel calling a 16 year old child horrible names for fucking up once?
Must be nice to be so god damn perfect.

Functional skills at level 2 are not 'incredibly low level' 🙄

I have done some research and most colleges in the UK are asking 4 GCSEs but Ireland is just 2 GCSEs.
I looked at the level 1 courses he is currently on. If he completes them he can progress onto the level 2 BTEC next year.

OP I am sorry because this has been a pile on but your son doesn’t have a hope of turning this around until you and his dad stop minimising this and face up to hpw badly he’s fucked up.

He can totally redeem himself but not if you keep making excuses for him.

I am grateful for the posters who have given me useful information, as a side note to do with his behaviour i am not excusing what he has done, but people make mistakes! I have no idea why other non muslim students are even allowed in the prayer room in the first place.
To everyone else on their high horses, how does it feel calling a 16 year old child horrible names for fucking up once?
Must be nice to be so god damn perfect.

Loving the unusual animal anecdotes. My son was born extremely prematurely and had a brain bleed at birth. He has multiple complex disabilities. I can’t put into words how proud I am of him for passing maths and English Functional Skills. I have lived experience that they are counted as GCSE grade 4 passes. He went on to get a Distinction Star in his Computer Gaming T-Level. To get onto this course he needed maths and English GCSEs or Functional Skills. And yes, I’ve seen exam papers for both. They spent months on my kitchen table.

I am grateful for the posters who have given me useful information, as a side note to do with his behaviour i am not excusing what he has done, but people make mistakes! I have no idea why other non muslim students are even allowed in the prayer room in the first place.
To everyone else on their high horses, how does it feel calling a 16 year old child horrible names for fucking up once?
Must be nice to be so god damn perfect.

It sounds like you are making excuses for him, sorry OP! Two GCSEs is pretty appallingly imo; unless he's really thick, he can't have applied himself on any level. I didn't go into school the last three or four weeks when doing my GCSEs, because I found it easier to revise at home and got 10 GCSEs A* through to B. He would presumably have already handed in any coursework beforehand, and so the marks from that would already have been decided?

I'd try and (subtly) get him to view it as a bit of a life lesson. If you're not arsed working towards something, the options you get might well be fewer and more dull. If he works hard at the courses he's currently on, he'll be likely to have better options going forward. But if the spin is "poor him, he didn't do anything wrong but now he's being made to do something beneath him because he's clever really and deserves better", he'll happily believe it, which won't serve him well.

When I say friends, i meant most of the people in his year group. He still got to sit the exams just was not allowed back at school.

The one he complains about is called Technical skills, which he says isn't challenging enough.

I feel that this boy has been failed. Failed by his parents and failed by his school.

I also think there must be a back story. Why would a mother move a long distance away from her child? Was it an abusive marriage? Has the boy been abused by his father? Is the boy dyslexic?

It all sounds terribly dysfunctional. It's no wonder he mucked about in class, because he wanted the attention he wasn't getting at home. He behaves badly because he has no boundaries.

There is more to this than the OP is telling us.

To put it incredibly bluntly, your son is uneducated, despite having no diagnosed SEN. Why would anybody want an uneducated, racist little toerag disrupting their college course? 2 GCSEs is utterly diabolical and quite frankly inexcusable; expulsions are only given in the most extreme circumstances so his behaviour must have put other students in danger. Your son is likely to end up in prison if he continues to behave in a similar manner.

Unfortunately, it is evident that his behaviour been enabled by his hapless mother who makes excuse after excuse for him and minimises his behaviour as "horseplay" and his expulsion as "out of order". You need to look at areas where your parenting has fallen short and discipline your son. Maybe find him some menial, minimum work to begin with where he actually has to graft.

I'm retraining, software development, on a bootcamp that's been v intense and left me with reams more learning to do before I can realistically be employed - most ppl have some experience before starting, which I haven't had, it's not a course issue. Someone else on my course completed an unrelated degree, got a masters in comp studies, has done this and now has a place on a sofdev apprenticeship. My son is techy, he was home ed, has spent a lot of free time coding as well as gaming, is now in secondary so he can get quals to eventually do something similar. A lot of people want tech careers - from my perspective it seems to take a lot to get into it. Not always, but the right combo of self driven, comms skills and problem solving, jumping from one zone to the next and picking up new things quickly, requires a range of solid skills - especially if the quals are thin.

Apprenticeships I've looked at I believe want more than 2 GCSEs - I can't find the ones I was browsing this morning, and can't remember - my sticking point is my tech knowledge and experience, not GCSEs, so I didn't retain the number required. However, I think there are probably different types of apprenticeships too - there are agencies who do this on behalf of businesses. If he's not already coding, get him on Scratch and Khan Academy. If he really gets into it, freeCodeCamp is great, and The Odin Project will take him far if he's willing to go steady and in-depth. All free.