As we move into the fortnight of results for A levels and GCSE's we will once again face the press' desire to find fault with exam quality, public opinion of how things were so much harder when they were at school, parents watching like hawks the school A*-C figures and the mad massaging of figures to make sure every school can squeeze the highest % possible from that cohort before forgetting about them and moving onto the next one.
In all of this we forget about the students...its them who go through the hell of the envelope opening. They know what mean success and failure for them but they lose sight of this because they are focused completely onto what it means to all these other people (parents, teachers, public, press etc...)...do we actually ever take their feelings into consideration.
Success to one maybe that they achieved an E grade or 2 D's, to another that they finished with a line of below C grades...another that they finished school. Yet the focus is always the high fliers.
'They worked so hard for their A*'
'The effort they put in for their 11 A*'s-A's was remarkable'
Yeah so was the effort the child written off by an education system that only focuses on what students can do within a narrow set of tests who achieved his / her 5 D's and E's.
As with creativity, success is individual and should be treated as such. All are successful in someway - lets never forget this.
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