Child's education screwed. Repeat the year?

[KaysKey]

My son is in year 9. Online homework hasn't been that great, he is missing out on so much, socially and intellectually. It makes me very sad. Message to Boris, why not just reset and let kids repeat the year. 2020 is dead

Ffs what happens to those due to join reception in September? Or those due to leave. Summer term is mostly consolidation of learning and exams. There's absolutely no need to repeat a whole year. They'll catch up when they return.

Have a look around for the 1000 other threads explaining why repeating the year won’t work and isn’t possible

I'm not sure it's practical for every single child to repeat the year, which is essentially what you are asking for.

Because where do all the children at the bottom of the pipeline age 4 go? Or if they stay in (probably developmentally unsuitable) childcare, where do the babies go? What happens to school funding? What about Universities (if they’ve not all gone bust already anyway)? What happens to all the children who aren’t academically behind? Do some children repeat and not others? They’re all missing out and it’s awful but I think repeating a year causes as many problems as it solves.

Was feeling fragile, now I feel even more shit. Thanks. #bekind my arse

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3909658-DC-are-going-to-have-to-repeat-a-school-year?msgid=96549906

No work, sick elderly mother, child struggling, alone, depressed....goes to mumsnet for advice/chat.....ripped to bits in 2 minutes.

So what? Just ‘cos you feel a “bit fragile” people can’t give you the opinions YOU asked for?!
Get a grip!
Children can’t repeat a year....they just can’t.
Just because your son hasn’t managed or coped doesn’t mean that thousands of others need to suffer!

@KaysKey I agree with you. Now they're saying not all dc back in September, and those that are part time. It's a joke. But read my thread, you won't get anywhere. I totally understand how worried you are and feel the same.

Noones being unkind or ‘ripping you to pieces’, it won’t work and if you have a look around you’ll see plenty of information about why, you’re just being told the answer to what you asked

How on EARTH have you been ripped to bits? You had like 5 comments saying it probably wouldn’t work. Calm down, no one is being horrible, they just don’t agree with you.
Repeating the year would benefit a few children but not a lot of them.. which is answering your question “why not repeat the year”.

To be fair you mentioned none of that - were we supposed to guess from the sad faces? It sounds like a tough situation to be in but changing our entire education system for the sake of one term of learning, which many children will have done at least some of from home, seems like a huge overreaction. If it still looks like this after Christmas, then is the time to make noises about repeating a year, although I still think that would be fraught with difficulty.

Ds is Sept born. He would be bored silly. As it is the last year of primary will probably drag for him. He needs new challenges. I don't think that there is a one size fits all solution.

There’s a few children I wish would be able to repeat it as they’re in no way ready for y1 but ultimately they wouldn’t have been anyway. It’s just those FEW children that you COULD have got to achieve GLD (good level of dev.) and now they definitely won’t get there and it will possibly have a knock on affect throughout their whole primary education.. I’m thinking of very specific cases here. But for most children repeating the year is a pretty terrible idea.

What a bunch of heartless bastards.

There is no viable way to have every child repeat a whole year. So many schools do not have space for the children they have, what happens to new p1/p7/S1/S6 children🤷‍♀️
If you feel your own child needs to repeat their year, talk to their school about holding them back, but no reason for EVER child to be held back.

ripped to bits in 2 minutes.

Eh?

Because the first few posters don't agree and quite rightly pointed out this has been raked over countless times already?

OP ask MNHQ to delete this thread, it's not going to do you any good and if you really are as fragile as you say it would be for the best.

I wonder if it might be possible to hold individual children back? But this wouldn’t work in year 9, as friendship groups etc etc.

Sorry you’re feeling low, op. Hopefully next term schools will be able to catch children up. I have three who should be home educating but aren’t doing very much and I know we aren’t the only ones. 💐

All the replies are correct and repeating the year is clearly not practible for all but the OP has a point the replies were a bit harsh and could of been made in a kinder way just to explain.

No one has been unkind.

OP might not of seen all the other threads and the first reply saying Ffs isn't going to help soneone already fragile.

@KaysKey As a home educator whose children have SENs and who was let down very badly by the school system, can I recommend a few things that might help your DC to get back up to date with learning before September?

We use CGP textbooks and workbooks which cover an entire year's work. You could get one of those and catch up loads during the summer holidays for both maths and english. The layout is very good and easy to follow.

BBC Bitesize is excellent - and free to use, and their daily lessons are enjoyable.

Twinkl has some free ci tent and has been doing free access during lockdown.

Khan Academy is free to use for explanatory videos and work. It is American but the work is still the same roughly.

Hope some of this helps.

Repeating the year would change the fabric of our education system because those due to start/move up/leave will all be a year older, hence everyone ever after would be a year older. It won’t happen because it would mean a massive culture change.

FFS, the OP is clearly looking for reassurance that her son isn't screwed over.

OP - I'm not quite sure what stage Y9 is, as
am Scotland based. But I wouldn't worry. For children prior to exam years, then the teachers adjust teaching to the level they are at, and they will be doing everything they can to catch them up in time for exams.

For those starting exam years, if part of the exam course is missed, then they will need to adjust accordingly.

It's not fair to say everyone is in the same boat, as there is a massive difference in home education across the board. But enough people will be in the same boat that he will not be alone, and there will be help.

I think that the kids could repeat a year not all though. The year 11s out of all the year groups should get the option to re sit re sit the year. I wouldn’t be happy to have mock GCSE results as my final. The government won’t do it though as it would cause a lot of inconvenience plus there’s lots of other things to sort out at the minute.