My school is making me pay for my exams!!!

Hey guys,

I'm currently in year 13 ready to take my A2s. I study hard and have always received good grades.

Attendance to my lessons is 100%, however like 90% of people in my year we do not attend form time on a regular basis.

Form time consists of sitting doing nothing for 25mins, a waste of time. Even on the day when I have no lessons I am expected to come into form and then stay at school all day and do nothing, what a joke. I can't even do work at school as the equipment and resources they have are inadequate.

Ok get this, me and a few of other guys have been told because we don't go to form (even though our attendance to lessons is 100% that WE WILL NOW HAVE TO PAY TO BE ENTERED FOR OUR OWN A2s

Basically I just wanted to know if schools are actually allowed to do this and if you think it's right of them?

Thanks in advance, joelyboi xxxx

doesn't everyone have to have to pay for their exams?

Do you go GHS?

We don't even have to pay for resits.

It's not too much really.. Isn't it £12 odd per exam? It might work out to quite abit if you've got lots of exams though. Also, if you're over 19 you have to pay for your exams.

Is it just a new thing thats suddenly come out of the blue having to pay for your exams if you don't go to tutor or has this always been the case? Because if it has always been the case and you knew, surly they have a point by doing this. For example its like we have to have a certain attendance (over 85%) otherwise we don't get entered for the exam. But this has always been the case and we knew about it so I think unless there is a genuine reason then they have the right.

So the most important thing is, has this always been the case or has it come out of the blue with no warning and no information on the fact that this is what they will do? Because if you have known that this will happen then it's your own fault and its part of the schools rules that you have to follow.

Yeah, write to your headteacher. If your on course to be getting good results then they can't afford to lose you if they do make you pay then MAKE THEM PAY ASWELL! :P If I'd been attending class all year and getting good results and they tried to do this, I'd give them a f**king reason to make me pay! start egging the place left, right and centre, toilet paper over the building, or go egyptian riot style and ride a camel through the corridor! Man, that got out of hand fast!