To ask if only beautiful girls take A-levels?

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Just predicting for tomorrow when the papers will print pictures of beautiful, slim, happy, bubbly girls jumping for joy when they get their results :)

Maybe teenage boys just can't turn on the enthusiasm for the photographers.

I did hear last year that schools emailed photographers extolling the virtues of their female pupils and how photogenic they are.

But I could be proved wrong tomorrow.

Well they're not jumping :)

www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/first-fall-in-21-years-for-alevel-a-grades-8052776.html

Hahaha I read this and went straight to DMail online - the home page has two pretty white girls with long blonde hair jumping!

Jumping Girls

Yes, the daily mail has it covered: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188974/Result-Teenagers-celebrate-A-level-marks--theres-disappointment-A-grades-fall-time-21-years.html - clearly making-up for the rest of the media.

Are they trying for irony?

The BBC breakfast news had two boys telling their results.

lol we have this thread every year

To be fair, almost all 18 year olds are beautiful.

Youth is beautiful.

I will never forget teaching my first class of 19 year old undergrads a few years back. ALl that radiant skin and glossy hair; those bright eyes and those smooth limbs

The DM also has pictures of mixed sex groups, girls that are not blonde, and even some girls without make up and red hair (who in my opinion are naturally very pretty too).

The thing that strikes me about these pics is that the people in them all look 12, not 18...

YANBU, it's the same every year.

OMG one of them is Black!

Couldnt open the FT link but i do remember reading a press release last year from an independent girls' school, extolling the good looks and intelligence of their girls and inviting the media in.
BBC news this morning seemed to have very standard looking teenagers.
My own " pretty white girl with long hair" (albeit mousy brown rather than blonde) did her jumping for joy unrecorded by cameras - it's a good day here :)

Jodie makes a very good point. It's hard NOT to be beautiful at that age.

Lol at the DM- pic... did ya all see the boys in the background are indeed far to cool to jump in joy...they have that raised fist thing going on, but indeed are only in the pic, lol because they couldn't cut them out any more or they wuld have started cutting out the girls bodyparts.... :)

I've noticed you have to have special long flowing hair to get good A'level results these days.

OP have you reached that age where all young girls look attractive because they have youth on their side?

I always think girls these days look so much better then in ye olden days. Sixth formers at DD's school look like the cast of Fame.

Teeth all straight and white. Cool clothes, flowing hair wothout a bubble perm in sight.

I wasn't beautiful at that age

Not quite as old as I am now, but definitely not as willowy and dewy as they seem to be nowadays!

yanbu haven't read whole thread but I took A level and was really ugly back then. Ive since evolved into a stunning glamourous lady...

Oh come on, the people who are saying this doesn't happen really need to open their eyes, it's become a total cliche. Apparently a lot of papers have said they've realised the error of their ways and won't do it this year. The Daily Mail, however, have managed to put 3 photos with about 20 girls and 2 boys on their website. Nice.

Also, this doesn't happen in Scotland or at least didn't in my day. We got an envelope through the door. Bit more civilised if you ask me, there's no way my 17-year-old self would have done a communal happy jump for the camera.

Does anyone do an actual happy jump?

Without being asked to I mean

I did a happy jump this morning . I won't do it again I promise.

:o

Well it seems to be only the DM who still have the girls.

www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationpicturegalleries/9479808/Students-receive-their-A-level-results.html#?frame=2311762

We've got Olympic athletes and everything on this on.

amazingbouncingferret - yes, at that age where youth just seems to be beautiful. Amazing skin and lovely hair. Little do they know what the future holds for them :)

The Telegraph are notorious for this, Private Eye has been taking the piss out of it doing this for years.

As an aside, it also always tells you the school that privately educated kids attend/ed when something newsworthy happens to them