it is has been an incredibly busy morning, I wish i had sent everyone away someone, as they keep interrupting me.
Looked at module marks, finally extracted as if by pliers from the exams officer who is not to be found except through tortuous phone calls via main switchboard, and mostly no-one answering the phone..then a long time trying to work out which mark was which, then decided one of marks was way too low, then sent a copy of exam to the A level teacher to check if I was going mad to question (I mean ridiculously low, 3 marks for one 30 mark question!!!)
Then we get the news that ds has a distinction in his latest music exam, for someone who is mostly horizontal, surrounded by empty sandwich boxes and hasn't sung a note for about 6 weeks, seems v v surreal.
Friends sending me results, who are clearly not very aware of the middle grades that are getting onto excellent courses, end of the world scenarios about their dcs missing grades.
All results should be issued with a health warning I reckon. This is not your real grade. Your parents don't really know much. Your teachers may not be available for comment. And it will all come out in the wash. perhaps next week.