We are forgetting about our children

[Iris2212]

We are forgetting about our children, in particular, the ones who are meant to be doing GCSEs and A-Levels this summer.

They don't even know if they will be sitting the exams as planned. They have to try to revise even though it feels like the whole world is collapsing around them.

They might not get the long summer they were promised. They might not get to go on all the holidays they were looking forward to.

Some can't even go to school to finish the course due to the government's self-isolation policy.

Exams are stressful enough without us forgetting about our children.

I forget about mine all the time but he's very resourceful and usually turns up having foraged for snacks and entertainment

They shouldn't have to go into exams without being taught everything.
This is not due to anyone ‘forgetting the children’ though. This is just unfortunate.

Everyone is working incredibly hard for the children and to say otherwise is incredibly ungrateful and disrespectful.

What exactly do you think should be happening that isn’t?

It is the same for everyone. Universities still need to fill their places and they will make accommodations for people who miss their grades (within reason).

It is a godawful year for everyone, some will lose a lot of what they spent their life working on, others won't make it through.

So far, thankfully, Covid is sparing the young, Far better to go through this age 16 or 18 than 60 or 70,

The young will have a hell of a story to tell their children when the time comes!

Schools and colleges are developing plans. They will find ways of using online tools, etc. to continue with teaching even if the schools are closed.

What's not helping students is parents panicking and transferring their worries onto their children. What's not helping is parents withdrawing their children before schools and colleges formally close making to harder to communicate those arrangements to the students or denying them the opportunity to sit mock exams.

There are tools that can be used to stand-in for exam results if that becomes necessary. Places can be awarded on mock results, coursework and predicted grades.

Jesus. I'm in my 40s but I still remember taking my GCSES and A Levels and just how much of a big deal it was. I've seen so many flippant comments about 'oh exams don't matter in the grand scheme of things'. Yes. They. Do. And to pretend otherwise is disrespecting young people and the amazing people who teach them.

Yes we want to avoid deaths. Ffs that should go without saying. And of course people are working very hard to ensure the best possible outcomes under the circumstances. But please don't minimise this. This are people's futures we are talking about. I know that my 15 year old self would have been extremely stressed and anxious if she was going through this.

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OK everyone, stop the virus, the OP's children don't like it, they will miss out on their holidays. FFS this is a GLOBAL crisis where untold numbers WILL DIE.

SFS

Everyone claims that young people today aren't resilient. Well hopefully this will teach them resilience.

I haven't forgotten about my DC. We've all just got to get through it the best we can and focus on making sure as few people as possible get ill and those who do get the care they need.

Some idiot head of a chain of academies is recommending that A'level students go back to school and re-take the whole year next year. Because apparently to award them A'levels without them sitting the exams would lead to a loss of trust in the UK exam system. Fine for 18 year olds to waste a complete year, universities to have to lost a year of students, etc etc etc. How such a moron can be in charge of a bunch of schools is beyond me.

Wow. I was appalled to see the hashtag 'boomer remover' trending on Twitter the other day...but @dressinggownofdoom's attitude makes me understand the resentment that's felt by Gen Z towards their elders...

GCSEs and A Levels can already be taken verbally / online / deferred. A way will be found

Sorry arrangements for exams or how lack of exams will be taken forward will be sorted in time - not a priority at the moment.

Scottish kids exams start in just over a month. At least other places in the UK have a little longer!

Yes it is shit. I actually personally went through far worse than most of these kids will go through during my exams at 16.

No one is forgetting the children, the situation will be addressed and what they have done will not be in vain.

You need to be the adult and support your child. And if you do, they will at least have more luck than I did during that fucking awful time.

A way will be found, but the current uncertainty over the way must be causing anxiety. My Dd is applying for a master's which probably won't run next year. She's older, she knows life will go on. But I feel for the students just now,same as the grandparents and people losing their jobs.
Because I'm a parent, I have no job today, I have a child working in health care, I have relations even older than me...

I am hoping that long term this experience will have a positive effect on mental health and teenagers will realise that there are more important things than exams.

Are you forgetting the elderly and vulnerable groups so that your children can carry on as normal?

I have not thought about my children more than in the past month or so.

I can assure you, we are not forgetting about the children. My concerns about my child’s education are only second to my concern’s about her mental health. I expect to be spending the next few months homeschooling my child and trying to figure out how to help her make the transition to secondary school without all the work her teachers had planned to do on that front in the next few months.

There's no suffering competition or comparison - Im a frontline doctor going to be in the CV areas yet I still feel for young people!

@ColourMeExhausted coming up against challenges in life outside their own little world is a good thing for teenagers. I do feel for them, it must be very worrying as it is for us all. But is there a plus side - yes, it will be excellent for their development, learning to prioritise, learning that their holidays and so on come second to taking action for the benefit of community as a whole.

It will depend on their parents though. If they spend the next few months with their parents observing what's happening in the world, discussing politics and the consequences on humans, learning to help around the house, how to budget on a shoe string etc it will be the making of them.

If they spend the next few months playing xbox in their bedrooms then their mental health will massively suffer.

Mine is really looking forward to the time off school. She loves hanging out with me , we've made plans of all the things we can do. I have a weird teenager.

I’ve not forgotten about my children! Who is forgetting their children? I told my eldest today if she needs anything to let me know, I’ll send it. I’d hate for her or the grandkiddies to go without. Nobody is forgetting the children!

What do you mean 'forgetting about them'? Who is forgetting about them? What do you want people to be doing?

I have a D.C. about to sit Highers who is now stuck at home for at least 2 weeks. It's a huge problem but we are doing the best we can. Nobody is forgetting