Like many mother and father throughout the nation I sat apprehensively ready to listen to what Mr Williamson would inform us about what is going to change cancelled GCSE exams.
My son is in 12 months 11, the ultimate 12 months of secondary faculty and we each know the way important exams are for future jobs, staying on for sixth kind or going to school. Sure they aren’t the be all and finish all, however within the system during which we stay, they’re vitally essential.
So I used to be disillusioned after we realized completely nothing new. There was affirmation GCSEs and A Stage exams have been certainly cancelled, thanks Gav, I used to be anticipating to listen to one thing I didn’t know, and greater than a headline grabbing quip about trusting academics moderately than algorithms.
However on the precise element all we received was the exams are being changed by some “kind” of trainer evaluation. Some kind? What the heck does even imply? Why doesn’t he know what that’s already and when are we going to search out out?
This back-of-a-fag pack stuff has received to finish. They’ve had the most effective a part of a 12 months to type this out.
What occurred to all of that “oven-ready” enterprise Boris used to speak about? Extra like half-baked. They should cease sticking their fingers of their ears singing ‘lalalala’ and get us out of this mess.
Just like most authorities choices, all they’re doing with their erratic method to varsities, is setting off a ticking time bomb which, whereas it gained’t explode as we speak, will inevitably blow up sooner or later.
We already know from the Youngsters’s Commissioner, that within the first lockdown 25% of kids on free faculty meals did lower than one hour of schoolwork throughout the day. That’s a statistic our nation must be ashamed of.
The dithering, indecision and fixed u-turns are impacting a era of kids and taking part in havoc with their futures. By then this lot can be lengthy gone and the unhappy actuality is that it’s our kids who will finally pay the worth.
by Joshua Okai (Eva’s 15 year-old scholar son)
“I’ve wasted all my time revising.”
That’s the very first thing I believed when watching Gavin Williamson confirming GCSEs have been cancelled for my 12 months.
Now I’m perplexed – ought to I proceed finding out or cease? Is it value me waking up early within the morning to check once I don’t know what I’m finding out for?
I ought to have began my mock exams this week. I’ve been placing in a number of effort so I may move them and present my potential. However now I’ve been robbed of that chance and my grades could possibly be primarily based on earlier work in lockdown which doesn’t present what I’m able to.
Gavin Williamson stated yesterday my 12 months’s grades can be primarily based on a type of trainer evaluation however didn’t clarify what that precisely means. This leaves me – and I’m certain most college students in my 12 months, very confused and anxious as we don’t know of how the academics will provide you with our grades.
I fear how they are going to be awarded and the way they may have an effect on my entire future – all as a result of I’m not in a position to take my exams.