Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Secondary education

Connect with other parents whose children are starting secondary school on this forum.

Original poster

When did all the secondary schools decide to stop teaching at 16 then...?

34 replies

poodlepusher · 25/04/2008 19:56

I have been looking up local schools and none of the secondary schools seem to go beyond 16 / GCSE's.

Have I missed something? I thought that most schooling gave the opportunity to do A levels - is the fall off so high that a local college can deal with the remaining students?

I'm genuinely puzzled.

OP posts:
unknownrebelbang · 25/04/2008 21:12

None of our local high schools have 6th forms, except the one selective.

StarlightMcKenzie · 25/04/2008 21:09

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

ecoworrier · 25/04/2008 21:07

All schools round here have a 6th form.

Monkeybird · 25/04/2008 20:35

Most of them, in around 1986 (or was it 83?), I think which was (roughly) whne Keith Joseph, Tory education secretary, decided all 6th form places had to be consolidated.

Very bad move. It has never really gone the other direction.

Lucycat · 25/04/2008 20:27

The authority where I live is 11-16 but I teach 'next door' where it's 11-18 and I think that a properly run 6th form is great for a school.

Twas the Tories that got rid of them I went to an all girls school 11-18 and in my final year there we got boys and got rid of the 6th form - school is much the poorer for it!

Original poster
poodlepusher · 25/04/2008 20:25

well I feel very ignorant. I expect I spent many years with my head up my arse when it came to news about education and I've only managed to pull it out now that I have babies.

Thanks Fizzbuzz

OP posts:
Flame · 25/04/2008 20:24

Only 2 had em round here when I was at school (well 3 if you divide up into boy AND girl grammar, but 2 on offer per sex)

fizzbuzz · 25/04/2008 20:22

I teach 6th form in a school.

I think, a long time ago, in the olden days, before I started teaching, the Conservative govt moved majority of 6th forms into colleges.

Some schools hung on to it, if there wasn't a colege nearby.

Not 100% sure, but it was something like that

mumeeee · 25/04/2008 20:05

Most schools around here have a 6th form.