GCSE sailing assesment

Cheers waverider, one of the few to give me a useful response and not bicker about the education system....
i think jeffers is refering to the maths exam- have a look at some of the past papers- see how many questions you can answer....

Originally posted by Ross I left school because I hated it. I'm not going to uni because I'm not going to like that either and now I'm in the sh*t, no job and no hope of getting a good one anytime soon. So many of my friends are going to uni and going to come out 20K in debt with some worthless degree to show for it. If you don't go to school you’re in trouble and now if you stay in school you're not in a much better position (and a world of debt). The worst thing about it all is that at 16 you do you GCSE's, these get you into A levels, at 18 you do you A levels and go to uni then you leave uni at 21ish and your dropped strait in the deep end. Penniless and in debt, nowhere to live, and somehow you have to find a job with no work experiance. You've just been writing learning for 18 years solid and havn't got a clue what to do. You'll start paying the debt off when you start earning 15K a year, and that’s going to take a while (paying off the debt). Then you have to buy/rent a house/flat and that’s more money gushing out of your bank account. Mission, and I don't want deal with any of it. Now for all you people saying that they're giving away A's, you're wrong. Anyone who gets an A works bloody hard for it, fact. I passed all my exams but didn't get A's because I just didn't enjoy any of it so I didn't work hard enough. I don't care, I never enjoyed academic things and probably never will. So I will find something that isn't academic to pursue as a career. For now my solution is go to New Zealand and forget about it all for a while, work, have fun, go sailing and if I enjoy it never come back!   GCSE P.E, sailing? Go for it! At least you’ll have fun doing it rather than wasting your time in RE or something like that.

You just have to work hard, I did appallingly at my A levels and didn't go to uni, I have a nice job and comfortable life. Uni isn't the be all and end all, personally I think that a degree isn't really worth much anymore. Do a job you enjoy, I would rather earn less doing a job I loved than getting paid lots to do something I hated. Just my 2p's worth.

I agree with bert to.

James were you part of the Durham team who got shot at with air rifles when you came to visit us at Salford ?

Those were the days heh!

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a high school about the 11 things they will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

 

1 – Life is not fair – get used to it.

 

2 – The world does not care about your self esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

 

3 – You will not make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You wont be vice president with a car phone until you earn both.

 

4 – If you think your teacher is tough wait till you get a boss.

 

5 – Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grand parents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.

 

6 – If you mess up its not your parents fault, so do not whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

 

7 – Your parents were not this boring before you were born. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you think you are. So before you save the rainforest from the parasites of your parents generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

 

8 – Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they will give you as many chances as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bare the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

 

9 – Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that in your own time.

 

10 – Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

 

11 – Be nice to nerds. Chances are you will be working for one.

 

Having money means you can say what you want when you want. Am I right or what!?

Edited by getafix

I think anything that encourages kids and schools into sport has to be a good thing.  Too many schools no longer do matches etc after school hours, the hours spent doing PE of any kind have been cut, and too many have sold off their playing fields in a desperate bid to keep afloat financially.

At the same time we see an increase in childhood obesity. 

Not rocket science, is it?

(I crashed through my O levels (yes, I know!) and A levels but got a university place because of 'extenuating circumstances'.  I got a spectacularly good degree then did two Masters degrees.   I am now unemployed.....but I have a lot of time to go sailing....)