They make you leave if they think you are thick...

[SueEllen]

Can't really see a problem with it - I scraped into Sixth Form despite relatively poor results. After 12 months I did my AS exams and in light of the results I was promptly invited to seek opportunities elsewhere - all entirely my own fault, though it was a bit of a shock to have well and truly "failed" for the first ever time.

Anyway, it was always made very clear to us that coming back to the Sixth Form was a privilege to be earned, not an automatic right.

With all that said, I suppose the politics of it are different now that kids HAVE to stay in education.

According to the Education Secretary - one of the other Johnsons - it is illegal to chuck out kids for non-disciplinary reasons.

[Fred Bloggs]

Can't really see a problem with it - I scraped into Sixth Form despite relatively poor results. After 12 months I did my AS exams and in light of the results I was promptly invited to seek opportunities elsewhere - all entirely my own fault, though it was a bit of a shock to have well and truly "failed" for the first ever time.

Anyway, it was always made very clear to us that coming back to the Sixth Form was a privilege to be earned, not an automatic right.

With all that said, I suppose the politics of it are different now that kids HAVE to stay in education.

You mustn't overlook the fact that nobody is a failure in today's PC world.

[vwdan]

Can't really see a problem with it - I scraped into Sixth Form despite relatively poor results. After 12 months I did my AS exams and in light of the results I was promptly invited to seek opportunities elsewhere - all entirely my own fault, though it was a bit of a shock to have well and truly "failed" for the first ever time.

Anyway, it was always made very clear to us that coming back to the Sixth Form was a privilege to be earned, not an automatic right.

With all that said, I suppose the politics of it are different now that kids HAVE to stay in education.

[woohoo]

Any other musings about how life has changed for the worse since the '50s?

Has it got worse? I remember growing up in the 70s and poor was poor then. How did you find it growing up in the 50s?

[Fred Bloggs]

As I understand it, this has always happened at selective schools in the private sector. It's nothing new at all. These schools only get very high A level passes because the only kids who get to take the A levels there are certain to get a minimum of an A grade. Even at Mrs Blogg's state sixth form college they don't allow thick kids to take A levels and if they can avoid admitting them in the first place, they do so.

[bobspud]

Seems like a proactive step to make. What's the point of letting a 17 year old coast along for an F in their subject if they are neither showing aptitude or effort?

Of course it's down to the schools to make it damn well obvious from the beginning that the path for the course will include a brake point to eject them if they are not trying hard enough to succeed...

[SueEllen]

sas will be gutted!!

[shaunbhoy]

Perhaps we can try it on CUK?

sas will be gutted!!

[SueEllen]

Perhaps we can try it on CUK?

But how would we show we aren't bigots?

Apparently some of the selection goes on before A levels and even GCSE results due to the perceived background of the pupil.

[SueEllen]

Any other musings about how life has changed for the worse since the '50s?

I'm not a baby boomer and my relations who told me this are Millennials.

[mudskipper]

Perhaps we can try it on CUK?

[northernladyuk]

There is a whole lot of bother about some school in Bromley kicking out students after year one of A levels if they don't make the grade.

linky

However in this case instead of going quietly because it is a selective school the parents have decided they are going to sue -



However when I was at a non-selective A level college many years ago they basically told students who didn't get certain grades in certain subjects that they should consider doing another course or going elsewhere depending on how thick they decided the student was. The grades you had to get varied per course as they had done some statistical analysis on the many previous years students.

Other relations who are younger than me also had this at their schools and colleges. Some selective and others not.

In other words it ain't new. If the school or college thinks you are going to feck up their A level results they make you leave as they want funding for the government for future years.

Any other musings about how life has changed for the worse since the '50s?

[SueEllen]

There is a whole lot of bother about some school in Bromley kicking out students after year one of A levels if they don't make the grade.

linky

However in this case instead of going quietly because it is a selective school the parents have decided they are going to sue -

Parents of pupils from St Olave's, in the London borough of Bromley, say that removing pupils between Year 12 and 13 - the lower and upper sixth - is a form of exclusion.

Lawyers representing the parents claim that such an exclusion is unlawful and are seeking a judicial review.

The school has not commented so far.

However when I was at a non-selective A level college many years ago they basically told students who didn't get certain grades in certain subjects that they should consider doing another course or going elsewhere depending on how thick they decided the student was. The grades you had to get varied per course as they had done some statistical analysis on the many previous years students.

Other relations who are younger than me also had this at their schools and colleges. Some selective and others not.

In other words it ain't new. If the school or college thinks you are going to feck up their A level results they make you leave as they want funding for the government for future years.