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Quote from: Uncle Mort on January 31, 2012, 06:17:21 PMAnyway...My sprogs are deep in to their GCSEs at the moment. We attended a parent's evening recently to see how they're doing. Every teacher had a table covered in spreadsheets, tables and lists. Everything was target driven. My son's been getting Bs and all his his teachers were pleased with his "progress". A bit of delving and it seems that at some point he was graded as a "C" student. So getting Bs was seen as a sucess. The thing is that he's capable of better, he coasts along happy getting Bs without having to try. The message he gets is positive and the teachers get kudos for getting him a grade "better" than expected.One telling point, The GCSE teachers were busy, parents queuing up to talk to them, the vocational teachers were sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Their pupils and parents hadn't bothered to turn up.I expect Bm got a lot of Bs comments too.........
Anyway...My sprogs are deep in to their GCSEs at the moment. We attended a parent's evening recently to see how they're doing. Every teacher had a table covered in spreadsheets, tables and lists. Everything was target driven. My son's been getting Bs and all his his teachers were pleased with his "progress". A bit of delving and it seems that at some point he was graded as a "C" student. So getting Bs was seen as a sucess. The thing is that he's capable of better, he coasts along happy getting Bs without having to try. The message he gets is positive and the teachers get kudos for getting him a grade "better" than expected.One telling point, The GCSE teachers were busy, parents queuing up to talk to them, the vocational teachers were sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Their pupils and parents hadn't bothered to turn up.
Es then??
Quote from: apc2010 on January 31, 2012, 06:23:09 PMQuote from: Uncle Mort on January 31, 2012, 06:17:21 PMAnyway...My sprogs are deep in to their GCSEs at the moment. We attended a parent's evening recently to see how they're doing. Every teacher had a table covered in spreadsheets, tables and lists. Everything was target driven. My son's been getting Bs and all his his teachers were pleased with his "progress". A bit of delving and it seems that at some point he was graded as a "C" student. So getting Bs was seen as a sucess. The thing is that he's capable of better, he coasts along happy getting Bs without having to try. The message he gets is positive and the teachers get kudos for getting him a grade "better" than expected.One telling point, The GCSE teachers were busy, parents queuing up to talk to them, the vocational teachers were sitting there twiddling their thumbs. Their pupils and parents hadn't bothered to turn up.I expect Bm got a lot of Bs comments too......... I dreamed of getting Bs....
Go on then, Nick - I'd be interested to read it.
