A Level Results

[superheavyrhun]

I've been saying this every time someone else in the family gets better results for their A levels than me!

[Gandalf]

It's all bollocks, kids are clearly worse than ever and yet somehow the results are getting better every year. It couldn't possibly be that the exams are just too predictable and that teachers pretty much know what is going to be in the test.

[Master]

Stop pissing on their parade, be happy for them, especially you Miles, i keeps you lot in a job.

[Gandalf]

Stop pissing on their parade, be happy for them, especially you Miles, i keeps you lot in a job.

It doesn't hurt to tell the truth though. Clearly you need to do a bit of work to get an A, but it's absurd to say that standards are rising when in reality all they are doing is manipulating things. It isn't good for anyone to see 'standards falling' and so every year we are dished out the same old mantra. British schools are a mess and these yearly propaganda reports are just pointless. It's like the Soviet 5 year plans. The economy always seems to be improving, but life always seems to suck.

[Master]

The cost of going to Uni is a lot and if I was around i would not have been able to afford it without the grant I was given. The system is set for the privileged now.

[Gandalf]

The cost of going to Uni is a lot and if I was around i would not have been able to afford it without the grant I was given. The system is set for the privileged now.

I was arguing this earlier with a friend and I agree. I am very angry about the idea that fees are 9 grand a year. Then you need to factor in lodgings and food etc. You could do it, but it means bank loans for the rest of your life. It seems like in every way the system is rigged for the banks to do well and for poor people to remain permanently poor or never given a chance. I would have balked if this was potentially my first year of university too.

And yet youth unemployment is well above 20%. You aren't even going to get a job if you have a degree. The whole thing is a sham and needs pulling apart. One big hoodlum fix going on.

[Master]

Agreed a lot of the students that graduate have big debt and have to do jobs they do not want like being teachers because the government were short of them, now they end up knocking on peoples doors selling sky or gas/electric.