To think that for any parents who use this site and have DCs who will only achieve C and D grades it must be soul destroying.

[smokepole]

Fortunately my three DC will ( probably all go to university with good GCSE and A level results) . However, the vast majority of kids and surely many parents on here have children , who will not achieve 'great results'. The parents must feel that they as well as their children have failed. The 'constant' discussions on Oxbridge/ RG universities must make these parents feel like they are living in a parallel universe. The vast majority of kids will not go to either of these institutions , 'modest' or normal universities are continually disregarded on Mumsnet ,( though for many kids, even these universities are unattainable).

I just want to send some support out to those parents and their DC. I want to let them know that despite 'average' results , they can still achieve great things , with or without great exam results.

I think the one thing I've learnt on the 5 or so years Ive been on MN, is that none of our children are average.

MN is nothing like my real world.

Nor mine

Honestly, I don't give a shit what results my kids get. As long they're happy, healthy, able to look after themselves and get on in the world, that's all that matters. If they manage to get fantastic results I'll be proud of them, if they fail completely I'll still be proud of them.

DD1 has SEN and quite possibly won't even be entered into GCSE's. DD2 is completely average academically. She's very quick, but when it comes to schoolwork she just plods along right in the middle.

My DD is 7 and cant speak.

Pardon me if my heart doesn't bleed for those with academically average kids.

My son gets complimented on his quiff . It takes him ages to perfect each morning .
My daughter can hold onto her wee for longer than is humanly possible .
My other daughter eats chilli olives .

What a totally ridiculous post .
So ridiculous it's brilliant .

My son has done three GCSEs, five post offices and two years.

Do I win a prize?

Actually, that's a lie.

He hasn't done any GCSEs.

That is one of THE best opening lines in an OP that I have EVER read

my parents must have been so conflicted over whether to be proud of me or not. i am studying a mickey mouse degree (we call ourselves the mickey mouse club/crayon club) at an ex-poly uni (which has jumped massively in the league table this year)... but i got AAB in my a levels and turned down 'better' offers. Getting good grades doesn't make you a better person.

I am happy to be average

Nursery keep telling me how bright my 4 year old is.
He's just wandered past wearing wellies and a jester hat (nothing else) and he appears to be chewing on a shoe.
His father and I are very proud.

I read this post and thought I'd visited TSR by accident. A prospectus for an RG uni and a sheet of A* results are 'fap material' over there, sounds like you'd fit in great there OP.

OP, have you actually read your post?

The list of my Qualifications:

Post Graduate :NILL
Degree :NILL
A levels :NILL
BTEC FIRST :PASS
GCSE A*-C :NILL
GCSE D-E : 6

You can see I am unable use 'Parenthesis' ,due to my lack of intelligence or academic ability.

I am totally aware that all the academic qualifications do not make a person, the 'finished article'.I am also know many non- academic people who have far more to give to the country, than people who have all the academic qualifications in the world.

Lol @ Squirelled

at OP

Maybe we should swap some of those 'constant' discussions out for a few on irony, OP.

so your point in starting the thread was...?

I think the OP meant well, despite the obvious ironies! FWIW I have struggled to find threads that support dc's not getting the better grades, DD1 is struggling to achieve Cs or Ds currently. It can be easy to feel inadequate when reading a lot of the threads on education. There have been more supportive threads recently however, you just have to search at length for them!

Am I allowed to reply with

'Oh do pissoff'

But please come back and tell us where they are in life when they have completed university as I may just give as much of a rat arse toss as now

This thread must be a wind-up. No one is as crass as this OP appears. Please tell me it isn't real and it is an attempt at irony!

This post is so crazy.

I have two very able daughters, the eldest of whom is at an RG university and the youngest of whom is just finishing year 7 at school, so I don't yet know what her plans/hopes for the future are.

I also have a decidedly average middle daughter, who struggles badly with maths and sciences, and would be very unlikely to be university material.

I don't believe I have failed. I don't believe my middle daughter has failed. She is who she is, and is her own person, just as her two sisters are. Whatever happens and whatever grades any of them get, I will be equally proud of all three of them.

I don't really need your concern, but thanks all the same.

Most of us are average that is what average means.

Have you been sniffing aerosols?

Gotta be a wind up thread ha ha

I was going to disagree completely with everything the OP said but then I remembered seeing a thread last week I think asking what grades would a parent consider a fail at GCSE level. Many of the answers were 'less than an A'..
Which was a little disheartening for me as a parent of an academically average child. (Were you on that thread OP?....)
But bugger it, I will be happy if he is doing whatever job he loves and is happy and content. That goes for his Sisters as well.
There's no need for pity or head patting here, we don't need it thanks