To recoil from social media pics of students holding up cut outs saying '9' and 'we did it' in their pics

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I just feel it all looks a bit naff. Does the 9 mean ' I got 9 gcse' or does it mean ' I got grade 9s?'. What's wrong with just having a nice, smiley group pic? Why do they need these silly props ?

To be fair not even all the teachers understand the new grading system. One teacher thinks DS won’t need to resit his English, another thinks he will. He wasn’t expected to pass a single GCSE (has SEN) anyway but he has got 4s in Maths & English Lit which we are immensely proud of (just as proud as we were when DD got 3 A* and 9 As).

Did you fail your GSCEs? It's hardly difficult to understand that 9 is the best grade and each number below that is slightly less good than the one above

Unless you went to school in Scotland, where grade 1 was the best in the old Standard Grade exams.

If someone didn't know about the new system, why would they immediately assume that 9 was the top mark?

Get over yourself. Let people celebrate how they want. Your attitude sounds miserable and joyless.

I have a sixteen year old who got his results today and who has done exceptionally well. And his view is that plastering your results over social media is tacky and attention seeking.

I tend to agree with @NoCauseRebel’s lad. Come at me, haterz!

I’m in Scotland though, so just learning about the “new” 1-9 system. Wasn’t this the old GSCE system? I lived abroad as a young teen and went to a British school which followed the English exam system. It seems vaguely familiar...

StormcloakNord

GCSEs are English exams. Highers are Scottish. IIRC, Highers are the equivalent to A Levels and GCSEs are similar to Standard Grades. GCSEs are taken age 16(ish) and A Levels at 18.

For the last few years of their lives, all they’ve had is pressure to do well in these exams. They’ve done brilliantly and are rightly proud. Let them celebrate however they like as long as they’re not hurting anyone (and annoying grumpy gits on social media doesn’t count as hurting anyone!)

Did you fail your GSCEs? It's hardly difficult to understand that 9 is the best grade and each number below that is slightly less good than the one above confused

As a PP mentioned, not how it worked in Scotland with Standard Grades. And 1st place is always higher than 3rd place so hardly difficult to see why someone might think a 1 was a better grade than a 2-9.

For the last few years of their lives, all they’ve had is pressure to do well in these exams. They’ve done brilliantly and are rightly proud. Let them celebrate however they like as long as they’re not hurting anyone (and annoying grumpy gits on social media doesn’t count as hurting anyone!) friends, peers and family who might not have done well does though.

@CouldBeOuting

He wasn’t expected to pass a single GCSE (has SEN) anyway but he has got 4s in Maths & English Lit which we are immensely proud of

That is a fantastic result for your DS, well done to him! I hope he's suitably stoked with himself!

I recoil from social media by not using it (don't count MN as such) and therefore problem solved.

Are you jealous of clever 16 year olds OP?

Bring back the old GCSE of A-F.

I agree - the system is so complicated now.

(To the person who said it was A-G, a pass was A-E in my day, and F was a fail, and if you failed so badly that they were embarrassed even to have had to mark your paper, you got a U (unclassified) )

A grade 9 means they worked their absolute arse off and deserve every opportunity to celebrate without people recoiling

Yes, YABU. Good for them, well done.

if you failed so badly that they were embarrassed even to have had to mark your paper, you got a U

My SQA certificate says "no award" as my Higher chemistry result

Oh dear. Some would say - and I have to say I agree - anyone with a pulse can get such “awards” these days. OH is in the university sector and the tot has taken hold there too.

rot not tot!

NoCauseRebel

“friends, peers and family who might not have done well does though”

So we’re not to celebrate achievement in life case someone else didn’t do well. Very odd point of view.

My SQA certificate says "no award" as my Higher chemistry result blush

I got a G for an undergrad university module. 4 people out of a cohort of 400 did worse than me - and that was because they didn’t show up for the exam!

Then our results were posted up in the uni’s public space so everyone could see how badly I fucked that up.

Outside of my kids' secondary school they have an electronic sign visible as you drive past where they post announcements, sports scores for school teams, etc. In the spring the students who are going to uni the next fall can submit a copy of their offer letter and for a few weeks the board will show a rotating list of who will be attending where - John Smith - Wesleyan, Mary Jones - Columbia, etc.

It's purely voluntary and I think a nice way to acknowledge their achievement. It also never fails to cause a huge conflict on social media from the parents of those who are not going on to uni or who are going on to a less well known uni.

So we’re not to celebrate achievement in life case someone else didn’t do well. Very odd point of view.

It might be, if that's what the PP's post had said. Luckily, it didn't.

A lot of what is on social media is kind of naff. Like another PP, I avoid recoiling by not bothering with social media - at least, not the kind with photos and names.

I've not seen it but if it doesn't impact on your life, why worry?

his view is that plastering your results over social media is tacky and attention seeking
posting anything on social media is some form of attention seeking.

I find this less annoying than photos of toddlers / primary school children at 'graduation' .. or end of the school year in other words.

I've not seen it but if it doesn't impact on your life, why worry?

AIBU would be a ghost town if everyone took that approach.

So we’re not to celebrate achievement in life case someone else didn’t do well. Very odd point of view.

That is the current thinking. Heaven forbid that anyone should be excluded when the prizes are awarded to all and sundry.