Covid making the young en smarter?

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Record for Class of Covid: Two in five A-level pupils got A or A* – Breaking News (endailynews.com)

have they just fudged it or have kids worked harder?

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15 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Schools gave them the answers 

they didnt take exams mate

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Schools closed for months when they opened kids were constantly sent home on lockdowns yet they score the best results ever in A levels

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The grades were awarded by the students teachers based on what they believed the kids would get. Don’t forget that offsted rate a school on its exam results so the better the results ( given by the teacher ) the better they score with offsted ……

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30 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

My own kids were sent home with the answers they would have had to have given, they wasn’t a levels but still there end of year tests, it’s mental mate it’s caused an uproar here an to think the very same school had to sack the head teacher an a female teacher only a couple years back for same thing the school’s curriculum is fcuked an everybody knows it, even the kids. Not taught to think now just read an recall what ever the clowns in charge see fit.

 

we started home schooling my eldest a while back, an fir all we all enjoyed it he felt he was missing out socially so we sent him back but decided to also homeschool for a little hour or so a day, don’t involve sitting at a table am writing, but usually summat problem solving or practical, an my kids are not only streets ahead of the kids in there classes, they usually a street or 2 ahead of the kids in years above em, coincidence? I think not.

 

school is about as much use now as tits On fish, if it wasn’t for the needed paperwork I’d blatantly let my kids choose to go to school or go fishing

on the money; my kids spend all their free time doing real life stuff and you can see the difference between 'tackle box and xbox kids' for certain. the xbox kids cant think for themselves and are afraid to take 'risks'

another example is my mates kid, he doesnt go to school through a few problems but spends his spare time around adults and working in the shop. hes 12/13 and apart from the innevitable shit kids that age will do he acts like an adult and has no issue with english or maths but come 17/18 he's going to have to work for his dad because on paper he'll have nothing

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2 minutes ago, W. Katchum said:

Aye it that paper that will make all the diff, an trying to get that through to my kids is harder than it sounds They all think now that cos they are quite practical an thinkers that school is not important, an I was same as soon as I got a whiff of a wage at 14 I was off, I knew best, but now I just about got a driving licence

 

One best things I done was done recently an done for me eldest lads sake an yet it’s had an effect on them all, I started a little business, with hardly nowt but a few traps, showed me lad it’s possible to work your way up an do what ever you want. Like is at they have all seen it’s possible an all thinks it’s great an it’s got them all thinking for themselves, an now we have an extra income as it took off better than we hoped, keep kids busy an thinking, it’s not rocket science but many don’t get it. The future says they will all need every certificate they ever got from infant school all way through of they are to stand a chance in your average jobs 

that sounds like my misses baking mate; we spent several hundreds and she spent 2 years of her life retraining as a TA with certificates to deal with every form of problem going, no jobs about as everyone was at home. she started her little baking business and within a few months is making more than she would as a TA with all the time needed for the kids.  All goes back to the thinking for yourself thing that school cant teach dont it

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