Just had a mail from the headmaster, first of all explaining why RE teaching has been lousy over the last two years (hod on TWO sets of maternity leave - the mind doth boggle!) so a temp teacher was in who, until half way through the course was teaching them the wrong curriculum.
The head is therefore saying that on the first day of Sept term, we can see what the results are and if we don't like them, we can not "cash them in", ie they don't get counted in at all. That will leave the pupils with just 11 subjects. Apparently, for some reason I don't understand, that would be preferable to having, say, a C or D when hopefully most other results will be A or B.
So, anyhow, in yr9 ds took the first half, did no revision and scraped a C. Last month he did virtually no revision so I can't see him getting better than a C overall.
Does anyone know whethr it would be better to not cash in such a poor result or to count it in on the basis that a D is better than nothing?