2019 GCSEs and A levels may not take place?

Depression about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit has meant that I’ve given up teaching my exam classes and we just sit in a darkened room crying instead of doing maths. If it all turns out to be fine I’ve got a lot of content to get through post-March

Add that to your list of concerns

Michael Gove is probably about to become PM.

He's funded by the 'no dealers'

Imagine looking kids in the eyes and telling them how a no deal brexit will cancel their exams.

Having read your last post, I presume you wouldn't care, but love Gove.

Enjoy.

@NobleGiraffe
Can we please have you as Education Minister

noble

Depression about the possibility of a no-deal Brexit has meant that I’ve given up teaching my exam classes and we just sit in a darkened room crying instead of doing maths. If it all turns out to be fine I’ve got a lot of content to get through post-March.

Add that to your list of concerns.

I do have a very black picture of how this will play out but of all the things to worry abou, I dont think this is one. Although Kent will be worse affected by traffic chaos than most so they are right to be thinking about it.

Schools can grind to a halt very quickly for all sorts of reasons so I think it is very sensible for a county to put in place contingency plans. The exam period should be a priority. Not sure how/if other counties will be affected.

Why would brexit affect exams in say Newcastle?

Maybe OP knows something about operation stack that we don't - that the government plans to not only use the M20 as a lorry park, but the M25 and all of the M1 too...

Of course no one is going to promise they will take place, in case idiots come along and try to sue. But the whole point of risk assessment is to imagine the worst and then plan against it. They way you are going on makes it sound likely not just not impossible.

It is KCC's job to worry about stuff like this. There is no point you worrying about it, it won't change anything unless you are a HT or something.
If you have a child doing GCSEs/A levels this summer you have to prepare for them the same. If you live a distance from the school, maybe start thinking of your own mitigation activities such as thinking whether your DC can stay over at a friend's house.

Crash Out is confirmed government policy.

And as for the above, what nonsense. Yep all Theresa May has been trying to do for the last 2 years is work towards a no deal brexit. sarcasm. Because she's a Tory and Tories are evil aren't they. more sarcasm.

Nobody is denying this whole brexit business is a shit heap, but keep calm and carry on.

Why would brexit affect exams in say Newcastle?

Kent has very specific travel issues because of its geography. Of course exams would still take place. There may have to be some changes made around transport difficulties, but it's not like we don't know exams are going to happen and KCC are just considering contingencies for worst case scenario.

I seriously think you should give your head a wobble or by March 29th you are going to be seriously ill with anxiety.

As previously stated there are lots of possible contingency plans that schools can make to ensure that as many pupils as possible are able to sit exams.
On an international scale, international GCSE and A level exams still took place in Nepal in 2015 following the earthquake and in Indonesia in 2004 following the tsunami. Compared to those events, some travel disruption due to Brexit isn't that significant.

"economical with the truth"

A bit like both the threads that you have started.

It appears to be saying that if there is a major interruption to travel links, then the good functioning of schools could be affected. If those dislocations last for more than a couple of months, then the effect on schools will include the public exam period.

Presumably this list is being made now so people can assess the likelihood of the event coming to pass, the likely duration, the severity of the impact (if it happens at all) and what mitifpgatiins can be put in place.

This is good contingency planning, not a statement that this is what is definitely expected.

I have two words.

Millennium Bug.

And I say that as a remoaner.

yes, you are posting as a fact that schools will close, exams won't take place.
Your last thread also contained rotting in the streets or some such.

"Has your council confirmed that schools and exams will go ahead?"
nope, but then neither have they stated that they will close as a escalation of project stack in a different county

"How much has your council had from EU funding?"

Couldn't tell you and it would have nothing to do with the title of your thread.

You do know that the exam papers will be in schools up to a week or more before the exams take place?
You do know that teachers do not invigilate exams?
invigilators will be expected as part of their jobs to make allowances for traffic, alternate routes etc.
And schools already make allowances for exam clashes, etc.

banonocoke

It is scaremongering as kent is having to take into account a possible escalation of operation stack, something that has has a detrimental effect on access around that area of kent before.

All councils around the uk have been asked to draft scenarios post brexit, yet you are posting this as a fact, that it will happen, when it is just a possibility.

It is still scaremongering.

There are a lot of possibilities that might happen.

But according to the OP's opener it's not just Kent but all other LAs as well.

We have a holiday home on the coast so I well know the effects of operation gridlock. There are a finite amount of lorries in this part of the world and in 2015 most of them were in Kent, I don't see how this can be any worse.

It doesn't upset me at all because I know bollox when I see it. And I'm now off to endager all of mankind by making myself some toast!