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...

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Not strange @Northumberlandlass, we want to know what all our angst was really about!

I have the news on already. So it better be on the tv

I have the Parliament live stream on now with my cup of tea- will it be on that?

I was just going to ask where the announcement is, is it BBC.

@Monkey2001 do you know if the schools will already have GCSE results?

@Northumberlandlass I am 99% sure they would expect to get them on Wednesday. If CAGs are announced today probably nobody will ever see the calculated grades.

Fingers crossed all across England.....

Anyone worked out which channel? If it's on at all...

If CAGs are used, presumably almost nobody will be sitting the autumn exams.

I'm on BBC news and it just has the line of report at the bottom talking about announcement on A levels. Nothing mentioned about GCSE apart from Children's commissioner saying it should be CAG results.

I doubt they'll be any changes, Boris said He has every confidence in his education minister.

@Monkey2001 shame.... thanks! Yes.....fingers crossed 🤞🏻

I am watching skynews on youtube

DD oblivious - watching Hamilton AGAIN

Imagine if we all sat together in a pub waiting for this -

If they don’t mention GCSEs. I will just die

@Paranoidmarvin ditto!

No one sitting the exams may be a desired outcome. There could be a second wave, individual students could be ill or isolating, there is a lack of space to sit them (literally and metaphorically), and they can't get the markers.

What could possibly ever have gone wrong with that idea??

I feel so angry for everyone involved in this -students, parents and teachers. My DC is a teacher and did the CAG grading for all students within their subject. They went to a great deal of trouble to create a mini dossier for each student, with details of mocks, other assessed work, previous years levels etc. Took them weeks to do it. They adhered to all the guidelines they were given. Bear in mind that this is a person who is employed as a specialist a level marker for their subject, who is also employed by one exam board as an inspector to ensure that the practical exams are conducted properly AND that teachers' grades are accurate. The a level results for their subject were all downgraded by 30%. Some other departments experienced a higher level of downgrading. This us a school which has been improving year on year, results over the last four years have consistently improved. It is in a highly disadvantaged area where students have to be persuaded to apply for university because they don't all believe it's for people like 'them'. I suppose the government aren't especially bothered about these kids since they don't live in a tory area, and however they vote in the future, is unlikely to affect the government. But the teachers and other family members? I am writing to my 'head up his backside' tory mp to let him know exactly why he will never be able to count on my vote, or any of my family again. What they are doing to this cohort is appalling. And those parents who have children in other year groups, unaffected by this, need to get behind these year 11 and 13 this year to ensure that the government don't get away with it this year, because if they do, they will do it in future. Current year 10 and 12 are going to have mountains to climb before they take their exams next year. Their parents better hop that the government don't decide to use a similar system then to account for the months of missed teaching this year.

I can't get the abc page to load-ahhh

U TURN U TURN

Yes!!!!!!!

Meant BBC

woo hoo

Hurray

PARTY !!!!