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was at my eldest’s options night last night. Its bad enough that this is a hard and difficult time in choosing these, but he is also having to move schools, as the lovely council are closing his school as it is “undersubscribed”… :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Anyway, thats a completely other story/thread. :wink:
So… we were looking through what his subjects would be including and for English Lit there were Of Mice and Men, and An Inspector Calls.
Brilliant stories, and plays, both of them. But I did them for my GCSE’s! In 1989!
Is it right that for a subject that is not history, still has on the syllabus things that you yourself did at school? Shouldnt they have moved on a bit?
If you used that line of thought, Shakespeare, Milton, Johnson, Keats, Wordsworth etc wouldnt be studied today
I get your point about the books you studied but it must be a coincidence…they can’t have kept the same syllabus for almost 20 years
I know, I just thought that it was wierd that out of the four I did two (I cant remember the names of the other two) were still on the syllabus.
Its great for us as I can help with what I can remember, and also what Ive learnt since about them, Ive learnt more about them in the last 10 years than I ever learnt at school ie, the characters and the writers, so (if he picks it) its one subject that wont go over my head lol!!
Not sure about the rest though :oops:
bunk off school
ignore it’s nonsensities
go to a library
read even more
work on a building sitethat way he’ll have muscles, a character, and women
@toybulldog wrote:
bunk off school
ignore it’s nonsensities
go to a library
read even more
work on a building sitethat way he’ll have muscles, a character, and women
he wants to be a copper though :wink: at least that will get him off the internet lol
Options evening! Urgh! My mum never bothered to even come with me, did yours? Infact I can’t remember there being one.
My son took his options the other week, he has to go to college 2 days a week and 3 days in school, how mad is that?????!
The schools can’t provide the options he want due to under staffing :evil:
@*Sian wrote:
Options evening! Urgh! My mum never bothered to even come with me, did yours? Infact I can’t remember there being one.
My son took his options the other week, he has to go to college 2 days a week and 3 days in school, how mad is that?????!
The schools can’t provide the options he want due to under staffing :evil:
No we never had an evening either, we just took a slip home to choose them.
we never even had a “slip” !! ya basically started 3rd year and THEY decided what you would be good at !
@rubyred wrote:
we never even had a “slip” !! ya basically started 3rd year and THEY decided what you would be good at !
same here but it dant matter to me i was expeled at 14 :oops: Working at 16 in a facory and aint looked back to be honest
i earn more than me sisteringlaw who has o levels and stuff when she was at collage and she is just a office worker
But iv drummed it into my kids and thankfully they have listend ones going to uni to be a nurse hopefully midwife and the other wants to be a zoo worker :roll:
aye it was easier to get jobs back then sunny..I fear for kids nowadays.
It set me in good stead like NOT having a choice :)
plenty english
arithmatic
modern studies
A.P.H
cookery !!
P.E !!
and accounts !!!!! lol..
so i grew up to be a trapeze swinging,number cruncher..but boy, my scones were a delight :)
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