Isn’t this old news that was already confirmed? Of course this would happen.
Need to evaluate the a levels this and next year to see if that gap persisted to draw conclusions.
Honestly at this point just limit those in private schools who can go onto further education. If you’re in the top 10% of your private school grades, you get to go on. If not? There are alternatives to university
What would be interesting would be to compare the support private schools gave kids during lockdown against what comprehensives were able to.
Not at all to knock comprehensive teachers and staff at all – I know they worked bloody hard doing absolutely everything they could and managed to do a lot of amazing things. But anecdotally from talking conversations with parents it sounds like a lot of private schools were able to get off the ground a lot quicker and were in a position to do more to try to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their pupils.
I’ve got no doubt that comprehensive education could have managed all that too of course – if they were actually given the resources to do so (on top of years of underfunding education) and weren’t being fucked about continually.
There is more pressure from schools and parents to make the kids look better and keep up the appearance that public schools are better than comprehensives or state schools. If teachers did not inflate grades then they would have the senior leadership team and parents on their arse until they changed Tarquin’s grade to an A*, whether they deserve it or not.
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Isn’t this old news that was already confirmed? Of course this would happen.
Need to evaluate the a levels this and next year to see if that gap persisted to draw conclusions.
Honestly at this point just limit those in private schools who can go onto further education. If you’re in the top 10% of your private school grades, you get to go on. If not? There are alternatives to university
What would be interesting would be to compare the support private schools gave kids during lockdown against what comprehensives were able to.
Not at all to knock comprehensive teachers and staff at all – I know they worked bloody hard doing absolutely everything they could and managed to do a lot of amazing things. But anecdotally from talking conversations with parents it sounds like a lot of private schools were able to get off the ground a lot quicker and were in a position to do more to try to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on their pupils.
I’ve got no doubt that comprehensive education could have managed all that too of course – if they were actually given the resources to do so (on top of years of underfunding education) and weren’t being fucked about continually.
There is more pressure from schools and parents to make the kids look better and keep up the appearance that public schools are better than comprehensives or state schools. If teachers did not inflate grades then they would have the senior leadership team and parents on their arse until they changed Tarquin’s grade to an A*, whether they deserve it or not.