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Absolute f**king bell end. "I f**ked up despite the silver spoon I was given. Taught me how to bullshit my way through life instead of contributing something tangible."
It's an impossible task and they've got a lot right, but also a number wrong, exactly what you'd expect. It's an impossible situation. I think the weighting for independent schools is questionable, but actually when you compare the rest it overly doesn't look too outrageous.The big problem is how do you treat the outliers in schools. My school was a failing school with really low grades. I'd have been screwed in this situation. What they need to do is apply a sensible appeals process and quickly for those examples. On a whole the numbers look fine, but not analysing each case is wrong in my view.
It's not just an English scandal this though is it? The calculation of results in Scotland (SNP administration) also produced outcomes which benefitted those from more affluent areas. They have obviously now u-turned and gone with the teachers' estimates, which has produced a significantly inflated set of results compared to previous years.I'm not sure which is worse, although the latter is more politically beneficial to the Scottish govt in the short term. And similar to England, 40% of Welsh students have also had their results downgraded under the Labour administration, although there doesn't yet appear to be any figures on whether this benefits schools in more affluent areas.It just seems obvious that there is no fair way of producing a legitimate set of exam results without the actual exams taking place.
Quote from: Pliskin on August 14, 2020, 01:24:40 pmIt's not just an English scandal this though is it? The calculation of results in Scotland (SNP administration) also produced outcomes which benefitted those from more affluent areas. They have obviously now u-turned and gone with the teachers' estimates, which has produced a significantly inflated set of results compared to previous years.I'm not sure which is worse, although the latter is more politically beneficial to the Scottish govt in the short term. And similar to England, 40% of Welsh students have also had their results downgraded under the Labour administration, although there doesn't yet appear to be any figures on whether this benefits schools in more affluent areas.It just seems obvious that there is no fair way of producing a legitimate set of exam results without the actual exams taking place. Inflation against previous or future years is irrelevant. The certificates will always have "2020" stamped on them and future employers will be stupid not to take that into consideration.What is FAR more important is fairness across THIS year cohort, in terms of University access. The Govt had had 5 months to get that right and they have totally f**ked up.
I agree that this was a tough one to get perfectly right.But you could have put good money on the outcome being one that systematically favoured independent schools, couldn't you?
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on August 14, 2020, 01:41:01 pmI agree that this was a tough one to get perfectly right.But you could have put good money on the outcome being one that systematically favoured independent schools, couldn't you?But isn’t that always the outcome? (I haven’t got the statistics to back this up, just an educated guess)
Belton.By a long,long way, the most important aspect of A-Levels is their role in allocating university places in a given year. Everything else is a long, long way secondary to that. We have set up a system that has demonstrably advantaged independent school kids over state school kids on that issue. There will be thousands of independent school kids who win university places (and all that means for future life prospects) ahead of state school kids who should have won those places.The role of A-Levels in securing jobs in far distant future years (when you think employers might have forgotten about COVID - I disagree by the way, I'd be amazed if this year isn't seared onto our memories) is a tiny issue by comparison.