AIBU to think next year will be a series of local lockdowns and further disruption to schools meaning that A-levels and GCSEs will be cancelled again due to regional / education sector inequalities?

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Just wondering what people think will happen for the next cohort?

I wouldn’t imagine they’ll cancel the exams again, but after any lockdowns, they’ll probably decide to implement some really crap processes when it gets to May.

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God knows. What if it’s rolling local lockdowns....who decides what areas have missed too much school and which areas haven’t? Will some kids sit exams and some won’t?

Maybe we need to move to coursework?

Fuck no. Children & young people have suffered enough

Some children have already effectively missed a term, while others have had real-time inline teaching last term. There is already inequality. What if further lockdowns mainly affect certain areas - eg more urban or manufacturing regions as seems likely and, as a pp says, localised lockdowns just roll through areas? Will they all just sit the same exams?

Problem is if there is too much disruption, there won't be much coursework to use for assessment. Also if if they keep missing weeks off school they won't really have learnt enough of the syllabus to represent a full GCSE, so of someone wants to do science or maths, will they have missed too much of the GCSE work to be able to do the A-level.