Thread 8 Carry on Corona Cohort: GAV give us the CAG?

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Welcome all to the 8th Thread for this year's GCSE cohort the Corona Cohort!

Some of us have been here since I started first thread back in yr10, some will be new. Everyone has been friendly and helpful in the past. It is hoped this will continue. Going forward we intend to stay in secondary so any new threads should have 'GCSE Summer 2020 Thread # : Carry on Corona Cohort' in title just to make it easier to find.

From now on our DS/DD may go down various paths so we decided not to be exclusionary and stay right here in Secondary until HQ chuck us
At this precise moment in time we are awaiting GCSE results that seem to have been produced by an algorithm that also takes very little account of Teacher Centre Assessed Grades. There is an appeal process but it was changed yesterday to include mock results and coursework, then taken down again for review.
Trying to protect our young people's mental health.during this shit show , which the government claims is their priority...when they talk about wanting students back in schools/college in September...

first ever thread

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@itsgettingweird you may have to ask the school, or rather your child may. But you are entitled to see them post results.
@MarmiteCrumpet25 if performance was complete before March 20th, it should've been taken into account in the CAG

This might be a really stupid question but if OFQUAL decide to use CAGs and the government don’t. Can Ofqual override the government or does Bojo etc still have the final say?

It did thanks @janie74 ! More news to come i suppose

They're a government department so I fear they have to do as they're told

God I hope they don’t delay by weeks. Its going to kill us all....

@MrsHamlet That was my DH answer

papers leading with story of poss delay

No, that’s completely unacceptable on every level.

DD swore loudly when I mentioned delayed results, and her friend texted, “ No, sorry, Boris, we’ve got a table booked for brunch to celebrate/commiserate, so no can do!” 🤣

The Telegraph is just about legible here:

www.tomorrowspapers.co.uk/

It needs to be sorted by Thursday morning so results that aren’t going to cause a repeat of the A level fiasco are released as promised. I give no shits about what that involves at this point, they just need to make it happen. This is completely out of control. Hard enough to wait for exam results at the best of times but this clusterfuck has amplified the stress many times over.

It is isn’t fair on our children, us or the teachers, Johnson made a promise and needs to keep it. I guess we shouldn’t have believed for one second anything that came out of his mouth. Time and time again he lies and blunders his way through this pandemic. Enough is enough. And why on earth did he think Wiliiamson with his track record is a suitable person to be in charge of Education?

@FoolsAssassin Hear hear!

Mental health implications aside, from a practical point of view delaying GCSE results would be a nightmare for schools. DD’s school restarts on 2 September. Staff are already jumping through hoops to make it as Covid-safe as it can be - they really don’t need the GCSE results to be rumbling on into the start of term when they need to be focusing on getting students back into the swing of school life.

I think this would be the final nail in the coffin. They need to draw a line under this debacle as quickly as possible and ensure all students receive the necessary support to ensure they can move on to their next chapter as smoothly as possible. Parents have booked time off work to be there for their children to support them on results day and may not be able to be there for a revised date. The children need to be able to move on, the teachers and head teachers need to be able to move on to the new school year and supporting the upcoming year 10s and 12s and us parents need to be able to support our children as best as we can through this stressful time.

I think delaying it will just make it worse for the government. More weeks of angers protests, more criticism, more internal Tory strife.

The only fast solution is CAG’s as appeal, or as grades. They will want this to end fast now that the anger is growing and the press universally negative.

@FoolsAssassin another hear hear!

I've just fired off an email to my MP, its taken me all weekend to get my thoughts straight. Thanks to everyone who has added information and explanations to the threads.

CAGs as grades , the numbers are potentially huge and not enough time for appeals,

Any delay going back will lose valuable time that will be needed as we have no idea what idea the school’s going back fulltime mad the winter will have on virus cases, schools are up against it as it is,

Can't share because it's behind a paywall but four leading articles in The Times today scathingly critical of the government's handling and saying Tory MPs up in arms and pushing hard to resolve.. so whoever has written to their MP should know it's working .The Times is also written comment saying what a mess it is - so if the government's own MPs and a paper that traditionally supports it plus head teachers are pushing so hard against them then I would fully expect some significant news today or tomorrow. For our part, I cannot fathom how we get to Thursday without a resolution. Nerves have set in but also haven't felt so angry about anything in years

A delay would make matters so much worse because the schools are struggling with reopening plan anyway. ..plus the strain on these kids' MH would be unforgivable

Morning (ish)
0410 & not asleep.... just catching up on twitter & news.

Found this twitter post...

twitter.com/queenofswords6/status/1294471488351985667?s=21

If true, pretty shit (i’m not jumping on State/ Private bandwagon as I know students have been affected across the board)
I wonder if they submitted CAG’s that reflected such an increase in previous years or if the algorithm assisted!

And in BBC news

www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-53799860

they cannot delay these results. What would they expect to achieve in 2 weeks?
I am so angry! 😫😫

Just woken and thought thank gam awake, was dreaming they is talk of delaying the results. Then realised it wasn’t a dream

Awake since 4am. 3 days to go or maybe 17?!

It’s unbelievable @FoolsAssassin 😔

Please not another two weeks. I can’t see anything being any different then, except for schools restarting at the same time!

DS is due to start 2 weeks tomorrow if gets his place. I have a half packed suitcase I have hidden away as supposed to be dropping things off Friday if gets in. We still don’t know if DD doing her year out from here or over there which obviously will effect her accommodation.