Crazy Fool said:
well done everyone - i'm shocked after reading this thread how many A* and A's there are !
am i the only one on this forum that got kicked out of school at 15 and is as thick as ****
ps - i'm now 27 and work for the local CC in southampton schools - funny world
I'm 26 and came from a class that produced the best ever GCSE results for our school. I had A grades pouring from my ears and I finished up being in the lowest 3rd of everyone in said class.
However it has to be taken into context. My school was in a very very working class, run-down area with sillly-high unemployment figures, absolutely zero regeneration of the old mining zones. So for our school it was a huge achievement - something for them to be proud of.
Watch the national news reports about this later on and see all the middle-class white boys and girls with their mummys and daddys all banging on about A* this and college that and university this and career that.
The secondary education system is a complete sham - and the way the media focus on that very class-exclusive bragging rights of GCSE results is sickening. All the A* pupils you see on the news wouldn't have lasted minutes in my old school - because apart from learning the curriculum we learned about real life too. Which was the most useful?
It's not hard to work out.