The Sixteenth Republic - waiting on the GCSE results show!

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@BlanketyBlankAgain - make sure you have a maniac look at the ready for staff, students and parents on Wednesday and Thursday. You know the sort of unhinged look from horror movies so every one gives you a wide berth and says I will email you instead.

I think our exams officer will be very pleased that we're emailing results this year and very few people are allowed in. That's likely her only consolation.
I always give her flowers after results because she's one of my "sane makers". I might add gin this year.

I imagine the Awarding bodies can only cope with 1 result and can't set up their systems to work out the higher of the Centre-assessed or Calculated before midnight tomorrow (when the results would usually have been sent).

Why not send schools the calculated grades, and ask them to give students both? Schools obviously know what grades they sent to the exam board.

for you blankety or if you prefer.

I don’t think it was the coursework in our case. That seems to have been above board. But I’m fairly certain our biology papers must have been opened before they should have been. Unless it was a coincidence that we were handed a bunch on notes on a topic they’d forgotten the morning of the exam and told to revise them and that topic making up a significant proportion of the exam. I’m also not sure the french oral was entirely above board.

@ChloeCrocodile

I imagine the Awarding bodies can only cope with 1 result and can't set up their systems to work out the higher of the Centre-assessed or Calculated before midnight tomorrow (when the results would usually have been sent).

Why not send schools the calculated grades, and ask them to give students both? Schools obviously know what grades they sent to the exam board.

Because that would be far too sensible.

Everything is soooo convoluted!!

Inlnow its a red top🙈

😂 😂 Riga that's excellent

Oh God, Chris Grayling is trending on Twitter and there was a horrible moment where I thought I may have inadvertently tempted fate by joking about him as a replacement for Williamson.

Finally, a workable plan for safe school opening!

mobile.twitter.com/JurassicArse/status/1295410116293009408

@TaxTheRatFarms - what a cracking idea! stick each student into a zoorb - genius. That will solve the facemask problem which the U4T types don't like. I might even be able to float some of my students home along the Thames

YouGov Poll:

75% of British people think the government have handled the Alevel situation badly.
6% think they’ve handled it well.

Do you think the 6% are Us4Them?

Either that or the government front bench.

Or Gavin Williamson’s family

It is difficult to see how they could have handled this any worse.

And so the "my child won't be learning anything new in September cus we did work in lockdown" posts have begun.

Can we do anything right?

Maybe we should tell them the school will close soon so it won’t matter

And there is one about school bags too

I’ve found one of the 6% on the where’s Boris thread.

Ofqual and the DfE setting up the cabinet to make them look bad is quite a take.

The 6% generally think the U Turn is a good thing and shows humility : they think it is all Ofqual so that worked.

The my child will be relearning stuff is surely just the good old fashioned MN stealth bost!

Some of the students themselves are a bit naïve : a fragrant young woman on the BBC yesterday said she thought it was 'kind' of the government to 'listen to them' and they had now shown they could do the right thing. Think that one's a future Tory! the soundbite they picked out form her though was that it was 'embarrassing for the government'!

There seems to be a lot of year 13s today now discovering their schools weren't as kind to them as they thought! I did wonder on results day how so many of them so instantly knew their CAGs. We have to change the UCAS prediction processes : it builds a sense of belief and entitlement (and delusion!). When I started teaching, they were never told their UCAS grades or the PGs that went to the board. they had year 12 exams, report and mocks and that was it really. They definitely had to ask permission to be told them.

Gav on BBC NEWS at 7.30, is wine appropriate this early?

More like pitchforks!

When says robooostness I want to thump him.