Why all this media fixation with students educational achievements?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-day-exam-passes.html

While it must be a time of rejoicing for the individual students and their families, do the rest of the nation wish to see students (mostly girls) jumping up and down, squealing and waving their result papers in the air?

[Ankou]

well its the daily mail. i'm surprised they aren't in bikinis as well.

[dave50]

Because it is nice to see attractive young ladies jumping up and down.

[Old_Geezer]

I wish.

[sandyRoe]

That little girl, Deborah Thorpe, deserves a special "Well done". I'm sure you'd agree, AOG.

[tamborine]

We gotta promote our education

[Sqad]

AOG.....I would "jump up and down squealing and waving my exam paper" if I was as thick as "two short planks"and still managed to pass an examination.

I am just sorry that the exams have been devalued due to a Political and idealistic philosophy that all students need to pass an exam and the real hard workers are "lumped " into this quagmire of false achievement.

[sandyRoe]

I believe Sqad hides his light under a bushel. Nobody comes from a squalid northern town and gets to medical school without talent.
Well done to all who passed their exams and got the results today.

[Old_Geezer]

It is a problem when the system isn't sorting the cream, from the good, from the average.

I often wonder why many folk have to make ridiculous displays of over the top emotion anyway. Is there a competition I'was never told of ?

[bibblebub]

i'm sure the tv companies save some money by just showing the same bit of video each year

[tamborine]

lack of edikashun aint a quagmire sqad, look at Richard Branson who was dyslexic

[Ankou]

"I often wonder why many folk have to make ridiculous displays of over the top emotion anyway."

you aint never watched a big brother challenge then old g ?!

[cazzz1975]

they have always made a news story of GCSE results, it then gives them the opportunity to talk about university places and tuition fee's, pass statistics and unemployment figures for young people.

[anotheoldgit]

/// you aint never watched a big brother challenge then old g ?!///

Never Ankou, except of course that well known clip of George Galloway dressed as a cat, that was enough for me.

This hysteria seems to be on the increase, the yelling, whooping and the squealing on such shows as The 'X Factor' and 'Britain Got Talent'

Why??? can't the audiences just clap these days?

Then there is the increase in flower laying at some spot of an accident or murder etc.

Why???? some who lay them do not even know the deceased.

[dave50]

Well said AOG. Over the top screaming and shouting on TV shows is so annoying. What's wrong with people, cant they control themselves? A polite applause is all that's needed. Also the rampant mourning and crying for someone they dont even know. Putting flowers on lamposts should be made illegal.

[Pinkypie]

It should be put in the limelight. It might be what we need to help restore a bit of faith in the young, now that its tainted with rioting scum bags!

[Ankou]

quite aog.

http://img.dailymail....meron0305_468x409.jpg

[jake-the-peg]

It's simply because a lot of their readership have kids in school and they're very concerned about the grades they will get so they're interested in exam trends.

This year is special for A level students because it's the last year you can get into University at the old cheaper rates - that's made the competition spectacularly intense so it's particularly newsworty this year.

Next year there will be a lot of interest in whether the applications are down

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

Regarding your first paragraph, I cannot see why the readership having kids at school should make any difference, as the readership and viewers have always had kids at school, surely?

Agree though with your second paragraph regarding this year being a special case, due to the reasons you mentioned.

Next year we will have to see, but what is certain there will still be an increased number showing their emotions for all to see once again.

[Canary42]

Oh dear oh dear, having to watch people being happy, must be such an imposition (mind you, there is the OFF switch).