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Did you pass your children’s O’ levels/GCSE’s or did they?

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Hetty58 Thu 04-Mar-21 09:07:00

I've heard of it - but I'm sure it's not common. Yes, it's cheating and doesn't help learning.

When I was teaching teenagers, I found that kids of horrid, pushy parents were quite often negative and turned off learning.

After all, they didn't really own their work - so couldn't take pride in their achievements.

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Calendargirl Thu 04-Mar-21 09:04:51

My children did their GCSE’s 30 odd years ago, when it was more about the actual exams.

Of course what you are describing is wrong, but I suspect a lot of it goes on.

But one day ‘they’ (the children) will have to manage on their own, which is why so many struggle when older, when Mum and Dad are still having to sort everything out for them, at an age when they shouldn’t need to.

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Missfoodlove Thu 04-Mar-21 08:59:43

A comment on another thread reminded me of a girls night out I had when two of my children were still at school.
One of my friends said she has emailed her daughters French GCSE course work to her sister, an English teacher who lived in France.
Her sister would correct and return.

I was amazed and said naively that I felt that was cheating.
The other two friends defended the action and admitted that they and their spouses did a lot of their children’s course work.

They then turned on me saying that every parent did it and I would be a liar if I said we had not.

I had never done any course work for my children.
We provided them with the tools they needed but that was as far as it went.

Thoughts please.

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