He gave you his answer. You need to relax. Let the man be.
I don’t know why it was scrapped to be honest. If you are preparing children for university, it makes sense to have it because most universities have continuous assessments in their degrees.
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get used to it, you must conform you scumbag.
by the way, I have no idea what you are on about here, I liked @fenwaypark post as someone who has direct experience about the things that have gone on and are going on but everyone else thinks they know better. Same with @Lazarus and the pubs. I’d take more credence to people who know what they are talking about at the coalface
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Head shot. If you need a day off let me know il come in and teach your classes for you kid 
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We’re in agreement so.
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Say 5 kids in a class got an A when normally only one would. Now that’s obviously off the bell curve, so you’ve to Mark 4 down. How do you pick which 4 though. What if there were two genuinely exceptional students this year and both would easily have gotten A’s?
It works as a wide ranging measure in general most will get what they deserve. But there’ll be people royally screwed over as well. Not great when it’s life altering
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Bring “Economics for Dummies” with you.
I think people are over reacting a little. We were worried when it was restaurants, hairdressers etc etc and there hasn’t been a spike. I don’t see any reason why it’ll be different for schools.
You haven’t been around groups of 7-13 year olds
I know it’s outdoors but given sports are back a few weeks for them they’ve got some idea of social distancing and I think 7 to 13 year olds would surely be more scared in a pandemic than most. Well I’d imagine they’d be more obedient than other generations anyway.
I’d rather herd kittens than a hape of 7-13 year olds, especially on a wet day when you have to keep them in the classroom from 9.30 to 3pm.
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Surely the sensible play here for the LC is to over-inflate the grades, so everyone gets what they expect or better.
They’ll be delighted with themselves until they suddenly realise the grade inflation flow throughs to the CAO points and therefore the entry level of college courses and they’re back where they started in terms of what courses they can get into but have far less reason to whine and ring up Joe.
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With the added bonus of coming on here telling us what they got in the leaving …
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The CAO is some crock of shit. You get really tough 3rd level courses that aren’t always in demand so the points drop significantly, you get lads that aren’t suited academically for it in the least getting into it and then dropping after a semester
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Very true or you could lose out in say a science based course because your shite at Irish or French. It’s very unfair. The subjects should be weighted towards a course. Maths and science subjects are worth 1.5 points for certain courses etc.
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Doesn’t matter what they do as long as everyone is treated the same. On the mainland, there is a bizarre system where schools compete for pupils based on previous exam results. It can skew everything. House prices near a good state school are on average 25% higher than comparable houses beside an average one. Teachers get paid better, etc etc , so there is local pressure.
“You can appeal the result of your grades”
Is repeating the year much of a thing in England?