My son is crushed. Just crushed.....

[yomellamoHelly]

Year 11. Spanish oral exam on 1st April. Drama performance within next month. Art coursework still to finish off. Written exams as per schedule.
It's all hit him as he looked at his Class Charts this morning and all the work that's due / been set. It's all revision / prepping for upcoming assessments. The enormity of the change has hit him.
I know something will be sorted out eventually, but so so sad for him. He's upstairs sobbing.

@OhMsBeliever

Completely. I’m gutted for my daughter. But I haven’t taken to my bed with an attack of the vapours weeping for her lost future. I am (and she is) more than capable of being upset and disappointed about more than one thing. Yes there are bigger things going on. But that doesn’t automatically mean you can’t still be disappointed about the other smaller stuff. And I’d dispute anyway that exams being cancelled isn’t massive, it is, it’s never happened before.

So if you don’t have it in you to empathise and sympathise with the 16/18 year olds who are disappointed and bewildered at what is going on then feck off elsewhere 🤷🏼‍♀️

Not only missing the last term and a bit of the last year of school, but, if mocks are used, going from expecting to go to Cambridge to having no university place at all - it's quite a big deal, actually.

So if you don’t have it in you to empathise and sympathise with the 16/18 year olds

Some are 15

Some posters over various threads are having a pop at children as young as 15 being disappointed or upset

They were told by their teacher not to focus on the mock exam for one of their subjects, but to focus on one particular piece of work they needed to get done. And now it may be all about the mock results.

I just finished invigilating the last year 11 mock in our school

Most of the invigilating staff felt very sad for the children

They’ve been so good and most are working as hard as they can...they are allowed to be sad thamselves

Plus....how about all the fucking grownups clearing shelves and having fights over bog roll, no wonder the children are stressed!

Themselves obviously

My younger DD was really taking her exams seriously, working really hard towards them. She's now determined to finish the work for them even though they're not going ahead. And then to move on to all round education, while she has the chance. So finding out more about the world, reading the paper, watching documentaries, etc.

Kids aren't allowed to be upset because 100 years ago kids the same age went to war.

I hope people who use logic like that don't complain about things in their own lives.

Although I suspect that is far from the case....

This is the one thing that has made me cry. I'm tbe strong one in our house and I made sure I was away from everyone before I cried about it.
That and y6 kids. And A levels. And University degrees.
In my fifties now and I know from experience that this bit of education is just a step not THE step. But I also remember being at that stage myself and can imagine easily how huge this must feel.

Some posters over various threads are having a pop at children as young as 15 being disappointed or upset

I think it is not the children, per se, but more being frustrated at seeing the adults claiming their children's "dreams are ruined" and that adults are crying over it - while we should be supporting our youngsters to understand that it is not the end of the world, there is a way through and there are lots of options to get everything back on track.

Some people are so nasty.

I remember that’s few weeks of year 11 well, it was emotional knowing I would be leaving as well as the stress of the exams themselves. I have a group of close friends, some I would never see again after exams, I can’t imagine how I would have felt if suddenly all that wasn’t a Ken away from me.

My daughter has been studying hard trying to improver he SAT results, she’s in a not so great state school but is a top student and expected to get good grades, she’s aiming to go to oxford after she does A levels and is worried they may look at her GCSE results . The last few weeks she’s been working hard to raise her maths grade from a 7 to a 8 mainly to prove to herself that she’s capable of taking A level maths, yesterday she sat a mock maths paper but she doesn’t feel she was ready to reach the level 8 yet (she maybe would have been come June), she’s devastated that she won’t get to sit the real thing. It might seem trivial to some but to a 16 year old it’s a big deal. I’m looking forward to he coming home later so I can give her a hug and tell her how bloody proud I am of her.

For goodness sake! In 1942 the sixteen and seventeen year olds would be looking forward to heading for France in troop convoys at eighteen not to pissing it up at Freshers week

Yes this is true but remember we are living in different times. Thank goodness teenagers don't have to go off to war and are privileged to stay in education. That's the norm now. I'm sure they will realise eventually that it's not a huge deal in the scheme of things, but in the meantime it's a shock. Give them time.

Love music I totally agree.

For goodness sake - sixteen and seventeen-year-old Neanderthals would have been positively middle-aged...

See I don’t have a problem at all with what you’ve said oakmaiden

But other posters are absolutely making comments about the children

For goodness sake - sixteen and seventeen-year-old Neanderthals would have been positively middle-aged..

I now want to rewatch The Croods

DS has just informed me that we are having a board game night and I have to play scrabble. I am monumentally rubbish at scrabble

They've just announced the grades will be based on mocks and teacher assessments. Hope that helps some that it isn't just mocks.

I'm sure schools will try to arrange something later in the year so that kids can meet up and celebrate. We all need to support each other and try to stay positive.

Lordfrontpaw you have my sympathy, scrabble would be my idea of hell. Have you tried bananagrams (I think that's what it's called.) I like that much more.

I am good to bananagrams and boggle - and very good at strategy games like risk or global domination bit for some reason scrabble just flummoxes me. Considering writing is part of my job...

Results - based on mock exams, other assessments, teacher assessments, work up to end of term 9year I assume). Oh those poor teachers!

Feel for all the teachers out there needing to make these assessments. So much pressure.

But so happy it isn't just mocks - but takes into account a hole load of evidence inc mocks, predicted grades, ongoing class performance, coursework already done, etc. And the schools previous data - so they'd presumably notice a huge difference in overall grades for a cohort.

I suppose it's as fair as it could be - but there will be protests aplenty!

And the option to resit later this year/next year if they want to

Any links to this news please?