Tell me about Citizenship GCSE. Which is apparently compulsory at my DD's school. She doesn't want to do it.

you are obviously horrified by the idea that my dd wants to get a mix /spread of GCSEs and that I had the temerity to ask about one that didn't interest her.

Not at all. But you're arguing she's too academic in one breath and then she has no interest, which is it?

If no interest, there are plenty of dcs out there with no interest in maths, English or science.

If she's too academic, there's no such thing.

RE gcse is a well respected GCSE and can lead to Philosophy and Ethics at A level. Maybe Citizenship would encourage Politics A level? You don't need business studies gcse to do business studies. It's worth thinking about what A levels she'd want to do, presumably not History or Geography or a language.

Making PE compulsory is brutal. I know it is much more academic than people think, but for non sporty students the practical element can set them up for a low mark. I'm glad it wasn't compulsory as a GCSE at DD's school.

Oh and by the way of my kid had to do a mandatory citizenship or RE GCSE she'd be going to another school. Fuck that! What a waste of a GCSE! Especially as posters say it's an "easy" GCSE!

Blimey mumnset is a fucking nightmare at the moment!

I was surprised when dd chose her options how little choice there was. We are in wales and she had to do English language and literature, maths, numeracy, double science (and used an option to triple it), RE, PE and Welsh as compulsory gcses. Along with Welsh Bacc (which is very like general studies). She could only choose 3 things, of which 2 she wanted to do were in the same block and she could only pick one.
And re isn't down because it is a faith school. It's just compulsory!

I've known friends move their dc so they have a different choice of options at a different school.

If your dd is too academic to do Citizenship then her gcse choices aren't the best.

This

although too academic for citizenship isn't a thing

titchy is a well respected poster, no need to be rude to her.

Hahah respected by whom? Been on here over 17 years never heard of her! And so what if I had! Was still a twaty response!

Gotta love love a good handmaiden, arselicking poster!!

I don't know why you are being so arsey! If your dd is too academic to do Citizenship then her gcse choices aren't the best. If she's business studies and dt standard then I'm not sure why you are bothered about Citizenship. Good luck with it.

Business studies is just as waste of a subject as Citizenship. If uni's only look at your top 8, then having English x 2, maths, triple science, a language, history is more impressive than english x 2, double science,.maths, business studies, citenzship and dt!

If she's that academically able then why is she doing business studies and dt!

www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/citizenship/gcse/citizenship-studies-8100/subject-content/life-in-modern-britain

My son did this last year, Citizenship GCSE is not ‘lifeskills’ , if anything I would describe it as a politics course. He did drugs, sex, etc etc ib PHSE.
I actually went to his class to deliver a session on the modern civil service. The group was engaged, socially aware, asked intelligent questions - amazed at what the civil service actually is.

I’ve been able to have great conversations with my son about voting, party politcs, UK’s role on the world stage, the EU, what the national/devolved govts are responsible for, what a local authority is responsible for, the role of the media, British values, what it means to be a citizen.
When he gets to vote for the first next year, I think he will be in a position to make informed choices.
I thought it was an excellent course.

So if you don't object to the classes, she will be in them anyway, what's the harm in getting a GCSE from it? You cannot replace the time with another option, because she has to be in citizenship classes.

It would really annoy me too OP.

I don't understand why we force options on children that they are not going to engage with.

I home educate one of my children and having completely free choice over GCSE subjects that he's taking is a massive bonus!

I think you should make your views known to the school. If enough parents do the same, they might change their minds. But other than that, there isn't much else you can do.

I don't think you really understand what you're speaking up for though. The school won't change options this year, nor can it not teach citizenship.

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Research into options, looks like 9 is most common but mean is 8.6.

Performance measures are now mostly progress 8 based, so have led to a broader curriculum in some cases where students were getting only 5 GCSEs. (remember the early 2000s anyone?!).

No student, able or otherwise, needs more than 8 GCSEs.