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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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i most likely am but this is getting on my nerves

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2shoes · 25/02/2008 15:21

ds is in yr 11. so we are having the big push to get all coursework in.
now he has always hated humanities. We were very disapointed to find he couldn't drop it in yr 10 but had to do(bless the goverment)
he also has a crap teacher.
so the upshot is he has wasted 2 years done sweet f all and there is no way he will pass.
somehow teacher seems to think he will catch up on his coursework (2ys worth) he won't.

the thing that gets me is surely when it becomes clear that there is no way they are going to even get a pass, rather than waste the time why can't they use that lesson time on another suject that they satnd a hope of passing?

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themoon66 · 26/02/2008 13:24

February is definitely not too late to catch up. I had a thread running in 'teenagers' last Easter as DS had outstanding coursework and only two weeks left to get it all in. He managed it, apart from Electronics and Art. So no, it is not too late.

(DS failed electronics and failed to even show up for the Art exam).

He did manage good grades in everything else though.

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2shoes · 26/02/2008 16:55

duchesse athanks for that
what a nice helpfull post...not

I decided a while ago not to post any info about dd after it was requoted on another thread so will not bother to ask next time about ds.
obviously you and yours are so perfect.

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2shoes · 26/02/2008 16:57

to the people who were helpfull (even if they said i was bu) have talked to ds and although he can never catch up on the coursework in time If he revises and does well in the exam he can get an ok grade.

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LadyOfWaffle · 26/02/2008 17:07

I had little or no coursework for alot of my GCSEs but crash revised the night before (I am a very last minute person!) and got mainly Bs. IFAIK you can get a grade C with no coursework, or opt for a no - coursework GCSE option (not 100% sure though). When my English coursework was chosen, we were given the chance to re-do the chosen peices to up our grades - so over 2 odd years we may have done a million or so (!) essays, it all boiled down to about 3 which can be crammed in... it's not the be all and end all, but i'd maybe set one weekend aside for a coursework-a-thon and one or two days for crash revision. Apart from that, i'd let him relax/forget about it, but still make some effort. That's basically what I did with mine

Twinkie1 · 26/02/2008 17:09

Not a good lesson to be taught - stuff it if you don't like it don't bother!

He should be applying himself and trying at least. Maybe he could still get a pass just from coursework.

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2shoes · 26/02/2008 17:09

thanks that is my plan. i have chatted to him about it and i think it went in so fingers crossed. i feel for him as he has been working so hard and don't want to put more pressure on him.

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stleger · 26/02/2008 17:11

I feel for you, I have this with ds and compulsory Irish. Is he happy with the other subjects?

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2shoes · 26/02/2008 17:14

yes he is getting on fine. bit of a struggle with ICT my fault as I made him do it but even there he is staying late and doing work.(his choice)

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stleger · 26/02/2008 17:26

With so many subjects you have to like some more than others, and do as much as you can. The compulsory things seem the most likely to be hated!

TotalChaos · 26/02/2008 17:27

I have a sneaking sympathy for your DS - as I chose not to do history or geography, and if he has difficulties with his English GCSE, then I can quite see that could impact on the history and/or geography element. Agree with others though he should make a token effort - weekend on coursework/modest amount of revision.

stleger · 26/02/2008 17:59

My dh (PhD now) got a U for ungraded in OLevel religion. Which took some doing.

twinsetandpearls · 26/02/2008 18:29

No stleger I have just marked my mock RE GCSE papers and there were a few Us in there. It seems quite easy to do.

I didnt want to be unhelpful but I teach compulsory RE and I have children who just do not work and I am sure they may go home whining ( Not saying your son is doing that but saying it does happen] saying that I am a crap teacher and they didn't want to do it anyway. But the fact of the matter is that they have chosen not to work or follow instructions and therefore it is a behaviour issue not an ability or time management one. My subject does not have coursework so we would not get in the scenario your son has described but they will have been given time in lessons to do this work and he has chosen not to ( unless he was absent). I cannot believe he can't do some coursework tbh.

As I said before I don't think they should be forced to do RE/ Humanities, although I can see the idealogical argument about a balacned education but it does end up in some children wasting at least an hour every week and drived teachers bonkers who have to get them to work.

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2shoes · 06/03/2008 10:30

i had to update on this thread due to the nasty post
got ds's report and he has been marked as having good behaiviour by all his teachers. his tutor described him as being quiet and well behaved
so it just go's to show that a certain person on this thread was very wrong.

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