Educating Yorkshire C4 9pm

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Am looking forward to this, RL Waterloo Rd?

I haven't finished the episode yet, but I'm surprised at the lack of comment about Grant's mum and how ineffectual her parenting is. Ultimately, she's more responsible for Grant's behaviour than Mr Moses.

So Mr Moses lets Grant off a detention for a suit-fitting, but first of all it's Grant's mother that writes a letter asking for it in the first place?? Nice support for her child's education there.

Yes it's me, whatever, suck it, the wedding was shite, mr Moses is a cock but he's a great teacher

He must be a good teacher Grant as you have spelt their correctly and used apostrophes properly in your posts. A skill I wish my DC could master.

Mr moses doesnt teach

I wish my maths teacher was like mr Steer.

I might've passed!

Watching it on catch-up, so half an hour behind, but I would have separated the four blond clones a long time ago.

Aww mr steer is lovely! I like him the best

But i dont get why he didnt put them at separate tables when they were talking!

A bit mad to let his cellulitis get that bad when a quick trip to the GP (or OOH if he couldn't get an appointment that fitted in with the school day) would have sorted it. I breathed a sigh of relief when he finally got some antibiotics.

I was at that geography teacher all but doing their coursework for them.

I have to ask- I have been itching to ask this for the past three weeks now.

how are those kids getting between 7-8 A*-C GCSE's (you know at the end it tells you what they achieved??)

Are GCSE's really that much easier now? Either the show is heavily edited to make them look dumb or GCSe's are just not at all difficult anymore.

I know a few girls from my old school who managed to get A* - A grades, and they were brainy - very clever- always at the front of the class. Not gassing and being stupid in a group.

I really dont understand it?

I have wondered the same thing Tiredemma. The end titles haven't been consistent in the information given, I think. Eg I think Georgia got 13 GCSEs but Sheridan got 8 GCSEs A*-C, meaning Georgia could have got 13 'D' grades, but that still counts as passing 13 GCSEs iyswim?

they will be doing qualifications eg in IT which count as multiple gcse's.I think this has been banned for league table purposes now, but they may well report it in the best possible light for the purposes of the programme.

A* to G are pass grades at GCSE, but schools/the govmt use C grades and above as a yardstick to judge success. Fail grades are N and U, I think.

poor Mr Steer

So at the end it said that the school had achieved 88% A*-C grade GCSE results for that year- but they could be dual awards in subjects like IT/ Business studies etc?

Im asking because I was just as bad as the 4 blond clones at school and came away with just 2 GCSE's at grade c- I was bewildered at how they would have achieved so many A*-C results.

I know. What a dedicated, caring and talented guy!

I'm often frustrated at the behaviour of just my two teenagers. A whole school of them.....

Do the pupils who haven't consented to being filmed all sit on one side of the classroom to be out of shot? That must limit the seating arrangements re moving pupils who keep chatting to their neighbours.

I couldnt understand why they didnt split the blondes up either, but DD1 said it would give them more chance to kick off...

poor Mr. Steer, he's lovely but he needs to get a grip and take care of himself.

I thought Mr Steer was being a bit of a Martyr. There's dedication to the job and working yourself into an early grave. Even his Colleagues were worried.

One of the teachers did descrbe Sheridan as clever. Maybe it was just edited to make her look less bright - it did seem like she had pulled her socks up a bit by the end and i'm sure the girls didn't spend their entire time messing about or they wouldn't have passed anything.

I thought he was being a bit transparent with attention seeking "im very ill but i'm pretending i think it's not so serious so you'll all notice me limping and talk about how committed i am to my job" you're not the drama teacher mr speer- thankfully

Eh? Did you see his leg? It looked really sore - the doc gave him codeine for the pain.

Yep- i saw it. He saw it. His colleagues saw it- so what was with that whole act of 'ive too much to do- cant go to the doctor' he knew he needed to get it seen asap but put on this whole martyr act so they would all say how brilliant he was for working on. His acting isnt so good that you couldnt tell what he was doing.

bringbacksideburns, I remember the Jamie Oliver School programme when Alvin Hall pointed out that all the kids described by everyone else as clever were not, they had "street smarts".

I think we are too gentle for fear of harming their self-esteem, when achievement is actually the answer to that.

Why didn't the teacher choose where the kids sit? They did that in maths in my bog-standard years ago.