Parents MUST go with you to receive your A-level results....

Really interesting points, I agree with a lot of what you said.

Perhaps if you're parents pay for your education they like to think they have more power?

I hope this is an attempt at humour. There are a lot more important things about a child than his A level results. They are absolutely no indicator of a teenager's ability to cope in the big wide world or to be a decent human being.

Edit: And I say that as an exams officer and the parent of 4 children who have taken A levels.

I disagree, A-levels are a very good indicator of a teenager's ability to cope in the big wide world. For example, passing your A-level results shows that you've bothered to turn up to classes, have applied yourself at school and with homework afterwards, whether you've learnt about how to ask for help when you are struggling and most importantly of all developing the discipline to work hard for something with the knowledge that it will pay off months down the line instead of seeking instant short term rewards.

I get that university is not for everyone but that's not what my post was about. It was about not failing an important trial in their lives that will seem trivial a year or two from now.

We need to stop giving awards just for participation and pretending like the end results don't matter when they do in the real world.

How did Richard Branson do at school?
Or Alan Sugar?

#NoWrongPath

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I disagree, A-levels are a very good indicator of a teenager's ability to cope in the big wide world. For example, passing your A-level results shows that you've bothered to turn up to classes, have applied yourself at school and with homework afterwards, whether you've learnt about how to ask for help when you are struggling and most importantly of all developing the discipline to work hard for something with the knowledge that it will pay off months down the line instead of seeking instant short term rewards.

I get that university is not for everyone but that's not what my post was about. It was about not failing an important trial in their lives that will seem trivial a year or two from now.

We need to stop giving awards just for participation and pretending like the end results don't matter when they do in the real world.

I hope my kids aspire to being more than rich.

How would you recommend parents punish their kids if they fail their A Levels?

Personally, I would never let it get to that point. My parents were invested in my education early on and so the routine was already there. A lot of parents fail their children by simply not taking an interest in their children's lives and then wonder why their kids don't do as well as they would have liked.

As for your question, I don't have kids at the moment so I have no idea. This mum's net thread is very insightful and has some good ideas.

If my 'future' kids fail their A-levels I would punish them severely, no failures under my roof.

I disagree, A-levels are a very good indicator of a teenager's ability to cope in the big wide world.

I can see why they'd want your mum to be there. When some of my colleagues bring their dogs into TSR it makes me so happy

I think you're plan sounds like a good one, best of luck

I disagree, A-levels are a very good indicator of a teenager's ability to cope in the big wide world. For example, passing your A-level results shows that you've bothered to turn up to classes, have applied yourself at school and with homework afterwards, whether you've learnt about how to ask for help when you are struggling and most importantly of all developing the discipline to work hard for something with the knowledge that it will pay off months down the line instead of seeking instant short term rewards.

I get that university is not for everyone but that's not what my post was about. It was about not failing an important trial in their lives that will seem trivial a year or two from now.

We need to stop giving awards just for participation and pretending like the end results don't matter when they do in the real world.

My experience of my own kids and the 2000 or so I've seen go through A levels suggest this isn't necessarily the case. Some people aren't very motivated to work for their own benefit but will work very hard when they can see others depend on them. I can think of a student who dropped out after bad ASs in Y12 and who has a house and a business at 23 and another who achieved great A levels, went to Cambridge and at 25 has never had a job. My own children's A levels range from A* to Cs but I don't think there's much correlation between their results and their intelligence, usefulness in society or prospects.

The sound of backpedaling is deafening.




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I had no idea that text in TSR posts made sound. I guess I'm not running the most up-to-date version of the TSR app!

Pray tell where I backpedaled. Why do you have such a hard on for me?

Come back when you are a parent.

You don't have to be a parent to participate in this discussion or share an opinion on the importance of education - we are on a student forum lest you forget!

Plus I don't know if I ever will be a parent because as the years go by antinatalism makes more and more sense.

No I mean your opinion will, I hope, have matured somewhat in that time.

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Do you think Theresa May is not mature or even fit to run the country because she's not a parent?
No?
Didn't think so.

If my 'future' kids fail their A-levels I would punish them severely, no failures under my roof.