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AIBU?

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..to think that state educated kids are going to find themselves at a huge disadvantage in public exams?

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SpiderPlantSally · 28/05/2020 14:32

Every privately-educated Year 10 or Year 12 child I know - this amounts to six different fee-paying schools - is having a like-for-like learning experience at home with live online teaching, following their usual timetable.

Every state-educated child I know of the same ages (also five or six different schools) is being set written work, with very little or no live teaching. At DD's school there one hour of live Maths for the whole Year 10 cohort each week, and a contact session for the other subjects once per week, when the teachers are available for email contact or chat. That's it. Otherwise lone book work.

AIBU unreasonable to think that state school pupils will be at a huge disadvantage when applying for selective 6th forms and universities in the autumn? Surely the private school pupils will absolutely clean up on the top grades in next summer's GCSEs and A-levels?

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TheEmojiFormerlyKnownAsPrince · 01/06/2020 16:21

Yeah. I teach a subject where it was released today. And to be honest the ‘changes’ were farcical. They conveniently forgot about access to all... we were told to teach it all remotely. No mention of those without computers.

Quite a lot of angry teachers

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