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AIBU?

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To think kids should repeat the school year

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Everythingnotsaved · 02/08/2020 18:41

I am starting to think that if there is any more lockdown, kids will need to repeat the last academic year or really be disadvantaged down the line?

I am pissed off enough that private schools mostly got full online teaching which already shits on social mobility but any more will really be a disaster.

Aibu?

OP posts:

LaurieMarlow · 04/08/2020 08:17

But of course every other parent will have an excuse as to why they couldn’t possibly have properly homeschooled their child(ren)

Yes, that would be the full time jobs that they had to deliver under much more difficult circumstances than before.

Trust me, there were no allowances being made by employers for these parents having to teach their children too.

myrtleWilson · 04/08/2020 08:18

[quote happilybemused]www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/education-53645824[/quote]
@Tabletime posted the response to consultation on 2021 exams last night which detailed all of this

happilybemused · 04/08/2020 08:34

@myrtleWilson do you have a link ?

myrtleWilson · 04/08/2020 08:53

It's two posts above your 7:51 post @happilybemused

myrtleWilson · 04/08/2020 08:54

Sorry your 6:43 one

FrippEnos · 04/08/2020 10:14

Just to point out that the proposed changes are now official and that is what is being done to the exam curriculum for the subjects this year.

Exam boards will bring out more information later (possibly)

They have just started a consultation on Vocational subjects

Tabletime · 04/08/2020 10:18

There's still some scope for exam boards themselves to decide the extent of choices in questions or topics.

happilybemused · 04/08/2020 17:42

@myrtleWilson thank you. That is really useful (DS1 taking GCSE's next year. Ironically poetry is the only part of English Lit he is confident in

myrtleWilson · 04/08/2020 20:06

Oh that is difficult for him @happilybemused I hope his school are able to use the additional capacity to help him feel confident in the other texts - which texts is he doing? My concern isn't so much about the time lost (which is universal) but how we can manage an exam system that is fair given that moving forward some areas may be moving in and out of lockdown...and then schooling is disrupted to greater or lesser degree in different parts of the country. My DD will be going into year 13 and as the consultation document details is expected to be an independent learner but it is still a challenging time for many teenagers.

SueEllenMishke · 04/08/2020 20:13

Hasn't this been done to death already?

No - it just isn't practical or feasible.

user1497207191 · 04/08/2020 20:20

@happilybemused

Just read that they are dropping poetry from the English literature curriculum and other subjects will do the same.

Also GCSE's delayed until after May half teem to allow extra teaching time.

Seems a more realistic compromise than repeating the year.

That's unfair for schools/pupils who did a lot of poetry before the covid closures. They won't benefit as they still have the texts etc to study in less time. It's only the ones who leave poetry till towards the end of the course that will benefit.

SueEllenMishke · 04/08/2020 20:46

But of course every other parent will have an excuse as to why they couldn’t possibly have properly homeschooled their child(ren).

Yeah that full time job which suddenly got twice as busy was just an excuse to not bother homeschooling my DS.
Honestly... it's like some people live under a rock.

JenandFlo · 04/08/2020 20:51

I am pissed off enough that private schools mostly got full online teaching

I can brighten your mood: none of the private schools round here got full online teaching. My DS had a couple of worksheets (which weren’t marked) and access to Mathseeds.

imissthesouth · 04/08/2020 20:53

I'd be happy for kids to resit the year, I feel it's going to impact them massively which is unfortunate. Particularly high school students studying for there GCSE exams

PennyMissilesAndWombPies · 04/08/2020 21:07

Maybe if absolutely necessary, but generally, no. DS2 is already the oldest in his year and had basically covered all of Y6 curriculum before he took his 11+ at the beginning of the year. He's been doing online tutoring for the whole year and has "exceded expectations" for all his subjects. Doing the whole bloody year again would bore him stupid and cause behavioural issues. So please, not.

jessstan2 · 04/08/2020 21:33

@JenandFlo

I am pissed off enough that private schools mostly got full online teaching

I can brighten your mood: none of the private schools round here got full online teaching. My DS had a couple of worksheets (which weren’t marked) and access to Mathseeds.

That's what I have heard too. Anyway it hardly matters, it's up to parents to access whatever teaching facilities there are - if their children are compliant and not all are (I'm sure I wouldn't have been, any excuse to skive, and my son certainly wouldn't have done anything he didn't want to do).

happilybemused · 05/08/2020 06:12

I am pissed off enough that private schools mostly got full online teaching

I would have been fairly pissed off having paid 6k upwards a term and not getting full online teaching.

110APiccadilly · 05/08/2020 06:38

Just wondering - would there be a way to make it an option to repeat the year? So pupils who are struggling could but they wouldn't all be forced to. (I've never quite agreed with splitting pupils purely by age to be honest.)

Quite willing to be told this is impossible for practical reasons - it's a thought and it may be a poor one.

Kokeshi123 · 05/08/2020 06:38

Heartsonacake, I am beginning to believe you are a boy designed as part of a sociological experiment to see how much annoyance one online poster can inflict on others.

Themostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 05/08/2020 06:42

If that happened I would have to give up my job. My DS is due to start reception in September. His nursery have already filled his place with a new child from September so we would have no childcare. It also would be very unfair on him as he is very ready to start school.

malificent7 · 05/08/2020 07:00

No...they will just have to adjust exams accordingly.

minatoon · 05/08/2020 07:36

My reception age child would be extremely confused and disappointed if they couldn't start in September as would many others.

I really, really hope that the government don't decide this is a good idea to repeat the school year.

It would be disastrous.

TheMistressQuickly · 05/08/2020 09:22

So they’ve missed 4 months but should repeat a whole year? Behave!

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