School refusing to tell DS his GCSE Results

Our school has an e-portal where results are posted up for students. You log on and can see your results from anywhere in the world.

It seems strange in this day and age that some students have to go into school or wait for the post to get their results. You would have thought things would have moved on for everybody by now.

OP if the school really did say that to DH then that is not good. However it was a shame he couldn't go in on the appointed day.

Many of us give up our time to come in on results day

I wouldn't view this as giving up my time. We are after all paid throughout the holidays.

The OPs DH asked if he could go on Friday, this definitely the school being unnecessarily shitty for the effort of sending one Email. Totally disrespectful of the work the DCs put in.

There were available though. They weren't collected.

I'm with the OP it's damned disrespectful in this E world not to put the results on the school distance learning system or email them.

DCs work way harder than we did and deserve a weeks holiday not thinking about results.

OPs DS can't help thinking about them as results are all over the news

Science didn't even bother to tell them when the y10 core science marks would be available.

However, when I looked on the online reporing system that said 6am on the 23 and they were there at 6.45 when I happened to wake up.

The exam office are far more in the ball than the science dept. which is just as well or some people wouldn't be in the right places at the right time.

Maybe the DP is fibbing & forgot to go on Thu so made up the phone call...

I'd be surprised if a school would tell a random parent on the phone they could stroll in for something like this without pre-arrangement; & anyway it does make much more sense for them all to be handed out together in the new term.

I collected DS2's GCSE results because he was away but I had to give the school his written consent beforehand

Bonkers over reaction I meant to say.

No we've all got that there was some misinformation (although it's not clear if sh specified he wanted to pick up Y10 results).

Being a bit annoyed - yep fine got you.

Calling if barbaric and extraordinarily cry - workers over reaction.

Still no idea ager OP's ds minds or not.

Nope- I'd be annoyed too, with the misinformation.

camp, because the asked and the school said yes
if she was on here ranting because they'd said no I'd be saying YABU, but they said yes then said no when it was too late
Am I the only person who sees that?

Barbaric? extraordinary cruel?
Get a fucking grip!
Annoying maybe

If neither the candidate nor the parent could take time out of their busy schedules to come in to collect the result on the appointed day, at the appointed time, why would you expect the school to rearrange the busy schedules of their staff?

And yes, their staff are incredibly busy at the moment arranging a whole year's new work, don 't for a moment imagine the staff are on holiday.

Potentially, I would be angry with the person I'd asked to collect the results not collecting them when asked.

because he was told he could collect them on Friday instead!
I don't know why he wanted Friday, is it relevant?

My school wouldn't have given them to someone they didn't know was collecting them. Another person collecting your results needs to be agreed in advance in writing/email

But why didn't DP just collect them on results day?

the OP has explained a couple of times now why the results weren't collected on results day - her DP rang and asked if he could collect on Friday - was told yes. Was then told no on Friday itself. Presumably if he'd been told no on the phone he'd have gone in.

I'm sorry but saying the teachers at the school are being 'extraordinarily cruel' is horrible.

Neither you nor your sh nor your ds were there to puck up these results which really matter to you. I don't understand why you think the school is at fault. You have to wait less than a fortnight, that's all.

I think it's pragmatic rather than cruel, tbh. Of course exam results are important to the person who sat them but there is a reality that y11 are 'more important' I'm terms of children being able to confirm or not further study courses etc.

You don't say much about your ds how does he feel about having to wait another week or so? I guess if he really wanted to get the result on the day he could have nipped out of his course?

Our exams officer, if she was in, would have given your son his results on the Friday. Most of our year 10s picked their results up on Thursday. Of course they're important to them. And re-sitting is a big deal now - no individual modules. However,only the exams officer or deputy head would hand out results. If they weren't there, you wouldn;t get them.

I don't think you can take the attitude that teachers everywhere think like that, yet not one of the three of you turned up on results day or bothered to find out in advance what the school policy was.

Hope DS passes his exam.

If it was so important why wasn't the result collected on results day? You can ask to have the results posted I believe if you know you are going to be away. The results do matter to teachers BUT we're on holiday at the moment. Many of us give up our time to come in on results day and beyond to help students and the priority goes to years 11 and 13. We have students who need to reconsider their A-Level and Uni options. When term starts ALL the teachers will be in and can give your DC any support or advice they need.

My dd just finished year 10 and they all went in on results day to collect their English and science results.

If you couldn't make Thursday you had to wait until the first day of term, or arrange in advance to have them posted.

No, I don't think our school took the yr 10 GCSE less seriously, they don't paticularly want the students to re sit, they want them to get get good results this year.