Aren't kids brilliant...!!!

[Halifaxmum]

Halifax son brought home his Year 10 report today - his For Funks Sake (Government) predicted GCSE grades gave him As, Bs and Cs (due to, according to him, the fact that I'm a single mum on minimum wage, living in a not-great neighbourhood)

His school's teacher-predicted grades are 11 A and A*s at GCSE. He has already achieved a B in Maths and an A in Science.

All this and he has had 6 weeks off this term with glandular fever. He is the shining light in my life. I really don't want to show off, but I'm so proud of him, he's not had it easy, he really is a star! Aren't kids just brilliant!

[Bobbisox]

who's swearing, mind you I get easily confused now a days :-(

[sunny-dave]

@Sgt - read my lips

"She didn't post any pseudo swear words"

- it was a mis-translation by the automatic AB censor software of a perfectly legitimate Government scheme acronym

[Sgt.Rock]

But follwed up in the first reply by the "word" fook (which I hate).

[Halifaxmum]

Thanks again to all you lovely AB peeps (I do hope that word doesn't annoy anyone!)

You really do help me and give me comfort x

[Kassee]

If I remember correctly the predicted grades on based on such questions as your is your parents job and what was the highest education your parents did - NVQ 2/3/4 GCSE, A level, Degree, Doctorate etc etc. At the time I felt quite cross about this as I was a single parent and a childminder, but my son's best friend had two parents, one a deputy head and the other a physiotherapist. Which presumably predicted his grades higher than my son.

Anyway when my own son went off to Uni it didn't really matter. (It might be the predicted grades for A levels tho - not GCSE - cant remember

[boxtops]

I understand that predicted grades are based on your efforts so far in school, surely - you might have parents in professional jobs but not be academic yourself. If they base them on the parents, that really isn't relevant at all.

[ummmm]

I also thought they predicted it on work to date.

[Kassee]

Nope - they definately took into account background