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Fresh on the back of "The highly biased Annual Cycle Survey Thread" I present to you.... Govt GCSE & A level Consultation and the direct link to the survey: OFQAL Survey.
As a middle class parent of two exam takers this summer I am not only concerned about them, but am much more concerned at the implications for less privileged children who didn’t/don’t have the same access to online lessons, realtively decent schooling and parental support that mine have had.
I am sure every GCSE and A level parent would want to complete this and present to those interested an unnecessarily obtuse and confusingly designed survey. I have decided not to comment on the potential Machiavellian motivations for designing it this way others are far better placed to do that than me!
but am much more concerned at the implications for less privileged children who didn’t/don’t have the same access to online lessons, realtively decent schooling and parental support that mine have had.
I'm very much in this camp - luckily only one doing A levels this year, but he's had pretty the majority of his A level period disrupted, more so than last years students, and we saw how well that went.
Even kids with good parental support etc are struggling right now, dread to think how hard it is for those without our advantages.
martinhutch +1
agree, some of my kids mates are from pretty tough backgrounds and they are never on the zoom/teams lessons & not in school either
It's the usual manipulate the response up front by the way you set up the questions approach. Same as they did last year...
Oh, and OP this survey is only England now, as NI, Scotland and Wales have devolved education.
Seems they are trying to sneak exams in by the back door via mini exams marked by teachers. Seems the worst of all scenarios. Don't know what the answer this time is though, kids can't repeat 2 years, sitting exams given the disruption would be meaningless and teacher assessment is all over the place (hence why we normally have controlled exams, not a dig at teachers, there's bound to a lot of variation with so many people involved) and then we'll have all the politics rolled out again.
Luckily one of mine went through GCSEs last year and came out with what I think she should have got, bit better than mocks having had a bit of a wake up call, but not massively so), other one is year 8 so might have a chance to catch up.