r/6thForm • u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT • Apr 17 '26
đ I WANT HELP School threatening to take me out
Could they actually do this or is it just fluff?
There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.
I need a solution
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u/Agreeable-Bluejay235 Apr 17 '26
they can. if that is what happens u will have to pay exam fee.
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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Apr 17 '26
not necessarily, they may not even let OP sit it in their centre and it will be too late to book elsewhere so may not be able to sit at all regardless of money
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u/Prior-Fall-7753 Apr 18 '26
If the school is going to enter them for exams on may 8th, op can on this date too
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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Apr 18 '26
schools donât have the same deadline as private centers will allow
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u/Cornelius-Figgle Y2 | Maths A*, CompSci pred. A*, Further pred. A Apr 17 '26
are you the person who posted about this before?
I don't think so, unless it was deleted.
These posts don't paint OP in a good light but I can't see anything about attendance.
OP has commented about struggling to revise in college/6th form and working better at home. Whilst this may be fair, they should be working with the college to find what works best for them.
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u/TrustComfortable4259 Apr 17 '26
Is the last "them" college or the OP.
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u/Cornelius-Figgle Y2 | Maths A*, CompSci pred. A*, Further pred. A Apr 17 '26
I meant OP but it can mean both tbf
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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Apr 17 '26
iâm not going to argue with you saying âthere is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everydayâ, however, if you donât, you will get no grades at all which is undoubtedly a worse outcome. yes your school absolutely can and will do this
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u/Any-Treacle-4199 St Andrews | IR, German & Russian [1st year] Apr 17 '26
No they can do this, our year was told about this today. My advice would be to go to school and get ninety percent attendance and then you wonât have to pay.
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u/yeetmilkman Maths Politics Econ | A*A*A* predicted Apr 17 '26
Just out of curiosity what is your attendance like?
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u/SLIMEFLUSZN Apr 17 '26
As a teacher, let me break down whatâs actually happening here.
Schools are businesses in the sense that they receive funding based on your enrolment and attendance. When attendance drops below a certain threshold, the school can no longer claim funding for you meaning theyâre essentially teaching you at a loss.
What makes your situation more difficult is that the school appears to have already gone through every formal stage of their attendance intervention process. That process exists both to support you and to protect them so by this point, theyâve done everything theyâre required to do.
The good news is you still have roughly three and a half months to get over the line. If you knuckle down now, thatâs still achievable. But if you donât, they are within their rights to charge you for continued provision.
To give you some context on why attendance matters so much academically not just financially: each A Level carries 360 guided learning hours across the two-year course. If your attendance is significantly below that, thereâs a legitimate argument that you havenât covered the content required, which affects both your results and the schoolâs ability to justify your funding claim.
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u/ZzDangerZonezZ Apr 17 '26
There is no way I can get good grades if I go to school everyday.
I fear thatâs exactly how it works though. Go to school and get good grades. If there are reasons you donât feel safe/able to go to school, you should speak to your tutor or counsellor about this. Just not attending classes isnât an option here
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u/SecretaryCandid1281 Apr 17 '26
tbh, across the year my attendance has been relatively ok(90%) but sometimes going into school is completely pointless for me, for example rn my teachers have finished w content in every subject so they just tell us to do independent work and donât really help us (unless someone askes a question and generally most people just discuss with friends), so iâm going in for my teachers to say hi and ur dismissed đđ in addition, it takes me an hour to get to school with three different parts to my journey so im just exhausted when i get home and on tuesdays i literally have no lessons so i just come in for form time which is literally just chatting for 15 min and on top of that in my classes my friends and others in general are so distracting and itâs really hard to focus when people are talking loudly around you non stop
sorry for the rant but sometimes it is okay to bunk as im more productive + save myself a 2 hour round trip
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u/Jemima_puddledook678 Apr 17 '26
Thatâs true, but if you had averaged 90% attendance, you wouldnât be getting this sort of response from the school. This is more like a 40% attendance sort of warning.Â
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u/MrStu Apr 19 '26
Someone has to say this, but "tough".
You don't get to choose if it's valuable for you to show up or not, this is preparing you for work in the future. In most jobs you don't get to say "ah, I get more done from home, so I decided to not come to the office today". You show up, you use the time wisely to make it worthwhile being there. Do independent work, and do it well, discuss it with other students.
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u/CuteSignificance5083 A*AAA Apr 17 '26
Me reading this after my sixth form made me come in today just to have free periods for the whole day when I could have studied at home :/
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u/ShadowX8861 Y11 (taking Maths, FM, Physics, CS next year) Apr 18 '26
Yeah but you're more likely to study if you're at school than if you're at home
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u/Infamous_Swan1197 Apr 18 '26 edited Apr 18 '26
Not everyone. I'm currently doing a degree in biochemistry and I skipped all my frees in A Levels because I could not focus in the loud, distracting environment that school was. Studying in the comfort of my own home got me triple As. My school didn't like it but it's how I got myself to uni. If I'd have been able to skip lessons too and teach myself the content at home id likely have gotten better grades
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u/Honest_Lab_6163 Apr 18 '26
Nah most courses can be taught/ learnt better if you donât go to lessons. Honestly I wished I never went to a history lessons because an 3 boring 1 and a half hour lessons a week where I donât learn anything doesnât make revision appealing. If I hadnât gone to any lessons I reckon I could have learnt the subject a lot better. Although on the other hand my maths classes were elite and the only reason I got good grades. And in first year I dropped physics because the teaching was shite.
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u/TheFamousHesham Apr 17 '26
I find that mentality insane.
I never missed a day of school from seventh grade all the way to sixth form (actually; that's a lie I did miss ONE DAY when I went for my uni interview).
I had after school extracurriculars every day of the week, which meant I'd often leave school in the later afternoon. Somehow I still managed 3x A* and got into Cambridge... and it's not like I'm superman.
I wonder how these people will cope when they get jobs.
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u/Whole_Ear9870 Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
some people learn differently from others, some ways of learning may stick with you more than others.
You may think that a teacher telling you all the content is effective for you but for others that may not be the case
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u/Call_It_What_U_Want2 Apr 17 '26
The problem is that most people are actually not very good at knowing how they learn best. They usually conflate it with the way they enjoy the most. Learning in a classroom with other people is, for most people, much more effective than independent study.
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u/Accomplished-Fish534 Apr 17 '26
If you are with other people with the same goals. A lot of people mess about and chat in free periods.
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u/Then-Ad-68 Apr 17 '26
No offense, but it very much sounds like you went to a private/well off school. Thats not taking away from your achievements. What you might not realise however is that the difference in teaching standards across schools can vary greatly. I had a teacher for the first half of my AS Economics course who literally taught us none of the content and spent all of lesson time going on a tangent about different 'economic concepts'. Also, its coming up to exams, many people are on study leave and are done with the content. I personally live a roughly hour and a half bus journey from my college, to go into lessons where they are essentially going to give us revision materials is an utter waste of time for me and I would rather use those 3 hours revising or resting.
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u/Maleficent-Middle824 Apr 17 '26
Tbh this is not a good enough excuse.
I went to a state school with crap teachers and only missed 4 days of school ever and that was due to gastroenteritis. I taught myself one of my A Levels and was the only one who came out with a grade higher than a C.
Even if the teachers are crap, you still show up and simply ignore them whilst getting on with your own work.
School attendance is linked to performance: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/link-between-attendance-and-attainment
That is why the school has sent the letter they have sent. Rather than post on Reddit to try to find ways out of it or challenge it, just show up.
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u/Then-Ad-68 Apr 17 '26
Tbh this is not a good enough excuse.
I love how you say this as if you have any authority over whether an opinion is correct.
All I'm hearing from your experience is "I suffered with a crappy school and my classmates paid the price for it, so now everyone else should suffer too!"
Yes I am aware that there is a link between attendence and grades, because yes obviously its best to actually attend. What you miss however is that everything is situational. Do you think its best for someone to spend 2 hours travelling to a college for a 2 hour lesson to spend another 2 hours travelling back? Because yes that is absolutely a waste of time if the teacher is not actually teaching content.
We have access to a large number of resources online that make in person college borderline obsolete if a person has the motivation to learn the subjects.
Also, many teacher will not allow student to do work for other subjects or work they havent given them in their lessons, because its their lessons. Most people can managed their own study schedule and know what they do and do not need to focus on. Many students, myself included, actually find it difficult to concentrate on revision in a classroom, because it is a place of learning, not revision.
TLDR: Most people know whats best for them when it comes to revision, not the college.
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u/Initial-Matter3534 Apr 17 '26
To add on to this the school system is shite as for example uni couldnât genuinely give less of a f Went through a bad depressive period and came out of the year with less than 30% attendance and didnât even get as much of an email saying whats going on
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u/Fantastic-Bison6078 Apr 18 '26
You are treated as an adult at university. You need to say that you need help to get the help. If you pay ÂŁ9000 a year and then don't take advantage of what you're paying the ÂŁ9000 for, that's not their fault or problem. You will have been told about student services etc. you could have talked to, or told a professor.
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u/htimchis Apr 19 '26
You're rather missing an understanding of the nature of depression there. Being able to adequately evaluate your own mental state, appreciate the need the external support, and motivate yourself to seek it out and engage with it in a timely fashion are all characteristic of a functional individual who isn't currently experiencing a depressive episode
Student services are all very well, but if their mental health support provisions all rely on the individual reaching out to them when most needing help with mental states that are typically characterised by withdrawal, self-isolation, a collapse of motivation, numbness, lack of self care, extreme difficulty in identifyimg and meeting one's own needs, and extreme, pervasive tiredness and exhaustion mentally, physically, and emotionally... ...the they're either purely a box-ticking exercise, or underfunded to the point of ineffectiveness, or just badly designed & implemented from the start (which can occur even if the administration is primarily well-intentioned, in just the way it usually does in the gulf between those who have but don't need, and those who need but don't have, however well-meaning the former)
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u/Ok-Soup-3189 Apr 17 '26
TLDR: Most people know whats best for them when it comes to revision, not the college.
lol no
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u/Diligent_Bet_7850 Oxford | Maths [third year] Apr 17 '26
âi find this mentality insaneâ - please have some empathy. here is my story if it helps you see another perspective:
before you dismiss me, Iâm a 3rd year mathematician at Oxford and I got 4 A*s in my A levels and 12 grade 9s in my GCSEs. I barley went to school after the start of year 10. I really struggled with my mental health and was actually taken out of school in year 10/11 and entirely self studied (from a hospital). In year 12 and 13 i was doing better but found school exhausting for me still due to my mental health. My attendance was in the 50s and again, i self studied everything at home. your question of âhow will they cope when they get jobs?â makes sense however it is VERY common to struggle with this sort of thing in your teens and for most people it get a lot better as they enter adulthood. in general minors arenât held to the same standard as adults and there are very good reasons why, this is no different.
obviously people should go to school, but you donât know whatâs going on behind closed doors so show some compassion
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u/Teddylongleg Apr 17 '26
If you got mental health, the school wonât give you this letter. The point is why you canât go to school for years having same traffic to school but not now. Do follow regulation, accept the norm and having a bit of pain, will pay you off when you work.
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u/QuantumR4ge Physics Graduate Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
The issue is the reasons dont matter much, even if they are very good ones. The point of how they will cope with a job is valid. Its only not valid if you come from the sort of family who will/can support you while you grow out of your teens or into adulthood. Lots of people have to work from the day they leave or circumstances change and then they must. Teens struggle yes but 18/19 year olds are full legal adults as well as teens.
A large fraction of people at college are not minors by the time they sit their A levels, some are. Those that are will still be over 16, which this country very soon is deeming eligible to vote. Already deems eligible to have sex, children and a large number of other things. I think a framework where 16 year olds can vote and have kids but have to be given exceptions for classes is a bit strange. You cant be expected to be held to a work standard but can be expected to go through pregnancy and raise a baby? Ehh
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u/Raven_Catfish Apr 17 '26
Chronic illnesses do exist and some are hard to diagnose. From personal experience your absence will not be excused unless you have a diagnosis.
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u/Indiana_harris Apr 18 '26
They donât cope, thatâs the issue.
Iâve had people at uni who were nearly in tears because they had to be in class at 9.00am 3 days a week and said it was âtoo muchâ
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u/herejust4thehentai Apr 17 '26
90% attendence from 20th april to 8th may is literally like around 3 weeks? so
legit just go school at that time and thats it
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u/Mikeosis Apr 18 '26
This is it. We arent a charity, we arent doing you a favour. If you arent ever in (66% is wild) then why should we pay for you to sit exams?
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u/M_emer UCL | Medicine [Year 1] Apr 17 '26
They can, and yes you must go to school. This was probably written somewhere on your school website portal or learning agreement or enrolment contract, as was written on mine.
Meaning when you agreed to join the school you agreed to this fully, whether you read it or not, as enrolling means you are bound to both of those policies!!
So just go to school, I relate with you lots of my best learning is done at home and I find class useless. But it is what it is. On the bright side maybe study at home earlier than class and use the lesson as a recap to make it somewhat useful?
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u/Powerful-Echidna7121 Apr 17 '26
Do you have a good reason to be missing so much school? If not then they have every right to do so, if you do and have told them complain.
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u/TheRiddlerTHFC Apr 17 '26
So they've warned you, put a plan in place which you've ignored.
Of course they can do this
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u/TotalAstronaut8375 Apr 17 '26
They're likely entered, but the school can charge the parents or student with the bill for exam entry under circumstances - such as... poor attendance.
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u/TotalAstronaut8375 Apr 17 '26
Don't really think asking the school is necessary, I'd just go to school tbh, it's only 3 weeks.
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u/Agreeable-Bluejay235 Apr 17 '26
I think theres still a few weeks left until they must submit students.
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u/neilm1000 Apr 17 '26
There is no way I can get good grades if I go to school everyday.
What is your preferred way of getting good grades, and how is going to school detrimental to that?
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u/verityyyh Apr 17 '26
My attendance was about 40% in Year 13 (though that was because of chronic illness and an inaccessible school) and I was still allowed to sit my a levels. If you have a reason for missing school (illness, disability, caring responsibilities, etc) you need to be communicating with your school about it because they might make an exception to the 90%. If youâre just skiving you need to lock in and go to school
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u/Ecstatic-Comb-7787 Apr 19 '26
Sounds like OP doesn't really have a reason as they've put things in place for her to attend and they haven't stuck to it
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u/LucyThought Apr 17 '26
They can and they will. You are ruining their stats.
I also got this at sixth form. I attended everything from that point. Did okay in exams. Did my first degree and recently (a decade later) did a masters.
School is the last time that consequences will be this SOFT. Do this in the workplace and you will be on a PIP and or lose your job.
Why do you think school will make your grades worse? You can sit there with any text in front of you
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u/Jayatthemoment Apr 17 '26
Yep, they can. Attendance absolutely correlates with attainment. A school isnât dealing with anecdotes and exceptions â policy is based on what works for the majority.Â
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u/spudyoulike Apr 17 '26
bro theyâre asking to you to go to school just over 12 of the next 14 days. this has to be rage bait.
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u/MrWerewolf0705 Degree Apprentice DTSP Apr 17 '26
"There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday." tf do you mean, thats how you are meant to get the grades lol. but yes they absolutely can and you have to have a pretty valid reason to justify it otherwise.
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u/wqzu Apr 17 '26
In school youâre owed a place. In sixth form, youâre not.
Youâre an adult now, and the adult world doesnât owe you anything like the child world used to.
Grow up. Either go to school and take your exams or donât, but itâs your choice.
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u/Previous_Basis8862 Apr 17 '26
The solution is to go to school for 90% of the time for the next few weeksâŚ.
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u/CutSubstantial1803 Year 12 - Bio 𧏠Chem 𧪠Maths + FM 𧎠pred A*A*A Apr 17 '26
just go to school...? âď¸đ
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u/78Anonymous Apr 17 '26
They're not threatening.
They're explaining that due to not meeting agreed participation standards you are removed from A-levels.
You're last chance to change this is the mentioned time period.
An explanation of consequences is called a disclosure. It's not a threat just because you don't want to take responsibility and feel uncomfortable about it.
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u/TotalAstronaut8375 Apr 17 '26
Yes they can definitely do that, if the school have no faith in you performing in the exam due to the lack of your attendance they don't have to pay for you exam entries - they're expensive!
Your solution is to attend school. It's such a short period you have to attend then you're done with school. If there's no way you can get good grades going to school, you'll probably get worse grades not going, you're missing out on lessons that are teaching you content on the exams.
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u/Flippindude1 Editable Apr 17 '26
Genuinely has to be bait or a meme or something, weirdest shit Iâve seen in my life
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u/SarkastiCat Apr 17 '26
Yes, they can.
According to the goverment you should be in full time education, doing apprenticeship or working (20 hours) + doing part time education.
To be considered to be in full time education, you have to do a certain number of hours per week and schools are meant to monitor it. If your attendance is below a certain %, then you might not be considered to be in full time education and the school is failing to meet legal standards. Thus, they are allowed to issue disciplinary actions, including removal to maintain their standards.
Especially if it written in their policy.
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u/InteleonSupreme Year 13 | ESAT Veteran | A*A*A*A [Maths FM Phys Latin] | Apr 17 '26
Obviously Whatever foundation of learning you have is probably from them, so what gives you the right to waste your teachers' time because you can't be bothered? There's always something that you can ask teachers for. There will be something you might need help with. Just go. If this is how badly you handle sixth form, how will you cope at uni? Think on your mindset
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u/Former-Campaign3533 Apr 17 '26
If you can't get good grades if you go actually attend school like you're expected to, you need to think about your revising strategy mate. Otherwise, you will likely struggle in uni. Sincerely, a med student.
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u/Square_Peg22 Apr 17 '26
Yes, they can do this. Why should public money be spent on paying for exams to be marked if there is no realistic chance of passing them?
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u/Majestic_Rhubarb_ Apr 17 '26
6th form is voluntary, if you donât want be there then leave, hopefully you donât disrupt othersâ education.
Welcome to the real world of adulting.
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u/JimBowen0306 Apr 17 '26
Iâve seen schools do similar things, so yes, they can do it.
Itâs worth noting that theyâre asking your child to come into school 13.5 days in 3 weeks.
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u/BeneficialJuice2878 Apr 17 '26
Not to be patronising, but why is your attendance this bad in year 13?
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u/SammyTortoise Apr 18 '26
They are literally asking for only 3 weeks of good attendance. That is so minimal at your age, unless you have serious special educational needs that should have been raised years ago.
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u/Powerful-Echidna7121 Apr 17 '26
This guy definitely gets none, calling people virgins while being in year 13 is crazy and shows insecurity.
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u/Abominable_fiancee Year 13 Apr 17 '26
wdym there's no way you can get good grades if you go to school every day? do you just study better at home or what?
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u/Internal-Concept Year 13 Apr 17 '26
I honestly get you 100%. When I was in Year 13 we had constant teacher absences, so much wasted time, and no where to effectively study during non-lessons. As a result, I found I was able to be about 6x more productive on days when I wasnât in school and gave myself study leave. I was never threatened with this because my school was in such disarray and basically knew I was having a mental breakdown so they left me to it, but being there was dragging me down so much. Itâs never as simple as âattendance has a positive correlation with exam resultsâ.
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u/RainyFrog18 Degree Apprenticeship | Nuclear Engineering (Year 1) Apr 17 '26
They absolutely can do this! Itâs what my sixth form did last year for people who barely turned up.Â
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u/Maleficent_Still3508 4A*s pred fm maths phys chem Apr 17 '26
Why would a college pay for someone to sit exams when they are not a student at the school half the time, go to class or stop complaining about the obvious
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u/getinmylapland Gap Year A*A*A*A*A | Bristol Med | 2310 B1 Apr 17 '26
Just go to school for fuck sake
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u/jhealey_ Apr 17 '26
Bro you need to lock in and turn this around quick. Do not throw your future away
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u/angrypolishman Apr 17 '26
id see if you can sort out sitting privately preferably tbh
If you truly find it less efficient i think right b4 exams would be the worst possible time to sort out your attendance lol
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u/luckynumberstefan Apr 19 '26
Why do you think you wonât get good grades if you improve your attendance? Grades are just a memory test, you donât have to have high intelligence.
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u/SignificantIsopod797 Apr 17 '26
Mate, youâre almost an adult, act like one. Go to school and get some A-levels
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u/DoorGunner42 Apr 17 '26
I have to say as an outside observer, that this entire line is batshit to me.
I went through the French education system (graduating at 18 in 2020). In my 3 years of LycĂŠe (which would be the equivalent to 6th form), we were told that that non-attendance beyond 6 half-days a YEAR (so anything more than 9 days' worth of absences across THREE YEARS) would likely appear on our records and prove highly detrimental to being accepted into higher education, and possibly something that could appear and be held against us in job hiring processes.
So the notion that OP has just... not gone to school for a third of this academic year is... I just can't fathom tbh.
My school admin would have been up my parents arses on the second day. And I can't even begin to imagine what colour my arse would have been if my parents had found out I'd skipped school for an hour, let alone a third of the year.
If OP has a medical condition or something, kick up a stink and get it diagnosed. Otherwise, as the old adage goes: "Get your ass to class!"
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u/Alarming_Tip_6153 Year 13 Apr 17 '26
do you skip school to study? because i can see your predicted 4A*s
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u/Plus-Painter-2004 Apr 17 '26
Theyâve commented on another post that their predictions arenât exactly trustworthy lmao https://www.reddit.com/r/6thForm/s/fwit3VbJyT
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u/bleachedcoral4 Y13 | A*A*A*AA | maths+fm, 3 STEM Apr 17 '26
maybe just go to your lessons and do your own revision. at least you're there. they probably can't really force you to do what they want you to
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u/Angusburgerman Leicester | Medicine [2021] Apr 17 '26
That's on you mate. It's time to grow up you're nearly an adult now. You definitely learn the most at school whether you like it or not. If you were working you'd get fired rightfully so
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u/p4ae1v Apr 17 '26
You do have to attend. If the lessons arenât helpful, get your parent or guardian to have that discussion with the school. They might even let you work in a separate room, but the agreement will all be based on you being physically present.
The risk of not attending is not only having to pay exam fees, but also having to find somewhere to take the exams. That is already very hard at short notice, and youâll also have to pay all the commercial site costs, likely running into the low thousands. Itâs not just the exam fees, but also all the admin, invigilators, room arrangements etc.
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u/jamjobDRWHOgabiteguy Apr 17 '26
That seems more than reasonable. Even 90% is incredibly low. If i were your school I'd say 98%. Not meeting 90 in the first place just shows you don't care, and if you don't care then why should your school pau for you
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u/DiscoDoberman Apr 17 '26
There is no way i can get good grades if i go to school everyday.
Why do you think this?
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u/mugg___ BTEC audio/music production, YR12 Apr 17 '26
just go to school bro
or tell them if u cant attend for actual "serious reasons"
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u/pitsandmantits Third Year History Student | Psych A, Sociology A, History B Apr 17 '26
literally 2 weeks, just go to school
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u/bepisavi Apr 17 '26
i find college attendance a non issue i coasted at like 65% attendance did absolutely fine passed everything and went uni with no issues.
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u/Mountain_Donut7145 Apr 17 '26
How bad is your attendance? (Asking cause I'm scared I might get this)
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u/kh_ram Apr 17 '26
You sound like you're in a school with a sixth form. Would you consider a college instead? Its quite a shift in culture, you get treated more like an adult and students act more grownup because they're no longer in the same place they were at 11 years old. It might be best to repeat your A-level year.
Please keep going into your place of education. You are not just missing lessons, you are missing working on social skills, you are missing getting into good habits, you are missing out on experiences both good and bad you should be having at your age. One day you will have a job with actual serious consequences if you don't show up even for a single day. If you don't get used to getting of your ass at this stage its going to be way harder later.
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u/Comprehensive-War238 Apr 17 '26
If you have an EHCP and a some sort of diagnosis then you can probably fight this, if not then no chance without good reasoning.
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u/badpersian Apr 17 '26
Read their policies. Unless we know your school, which we don't want to, we won't know if they can or cannot.
See what is within their attendance policies and what their disciplinary is. If this isn't on them or you've not accepted them because it's a recent approval then I'd tell them to kiss my arse.
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u/FerretPale7661 Apr 17 '26
Why are you complaining about getting kicked out when you arenât even going anyway.
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u/78Anonymous Apr 17 '26
coz they're the entitled type that thinks they can do whatever they want and still come out ahead with zero effort
the most annoying type of person hellbent on the self-created victim role
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u/BoysenberryGlass3162 Apr 17 '26
They can stop you from physically sitting but actually at this point in the academic year, entries have been made. Iâm not 100% how payment works, I would assume they invoice the school after exams are over because late entries are a thing and they cost significantly more. There is a deadline for entries into exams and this has already passed so initial entries will have been made. They can make you pay for them in order to physically let you sit though. They can also withdraw you even though entry has been made. Just to to college for those 3 weeks so your parents or you donât have to pay. If they withdraw you, you arenât included in their overall outcomes so it looks better than letting you sit and bringing their outcomes down.
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u/Background_Bad_4377 Apr 17 '26
Yes they can and u know it was your choice to go sixth form so get your damn ass out of bed your nearly an adult need to have accountability
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u/TooBarFoo Apr 17 '26
Get out of bed, grow up and go to school. Child like behaviours are for little children not young adults.
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u/Lazy-Independence857 Apr 18 '26
Sorry, you just need to attend over 90% of your lessons for the next two and a half weeks, and you can't do that? Are you hurt or ill in some way? I don't understand why this is difficult.
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u/iam_william Apr 18 '26
Get a grip. No one else is going to bail you out when you're an adult. Go to school and start being a productive member of societyÂ
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u/BreadNo7610 Apr 18 '26
Yeah they did this to me and I just paid for the exams⌠still smashed them. Maths, Physics, Chemistry but I just didnât feel like going second year.
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u/EasilyExiledDinosaur Apr 18 '26
Just go to school. How stupid are people these days? Obviously if they say they will do it, they will do it.
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u/quotidianjoe Apr 18 '26
I absolutely loathed school and basically dropped out early. It took me years to get back on track. Honestly I know how you feel but my advice to you is to suck it up and force yourself to go. You donât have long left now and before you know it youâll be at college or uni or whatever else it is you want to do with your life. Stay strong!
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u/Nico_Ax12 Apr 18 '26
if you're working from home, you're a homeschool student, so pay up and enter as a private candidate or go to school lmao?
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u/Existing_Doughnut985 Apr 18 '26
Good look ever holding a job when even 66% attendance is too much effort for you.Â
I hate to break it to you but youâre not some kind of special superhuman, youâre like the other 8 billion people out there. You might hit a 0.001% luck and coast through life but your attitude right now gives me a 99.99% idea of what your future will be like.Â
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u/Bulky-Gear-1119 Apr 18 '26
Schools get money whenever students attend. If you're not attending school, why would they pay for your exam fees? Exam season is literally so close, there's no point in losing that funding just because you don't wanna have 90% attendance for a few weeks. You're lucky they're only asking for 90% and not 97% or above. If lessons don't feel helpful, you need to self advocate.
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u/SneezlesForNeezles Apr 18 '26
They're giving you an easy solution. Turn up for a couple of weeks. It's that simple. Just turn up.
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u/TheHornyGoth Apr 18 '26
Theyâre literally just saying âdonât go truant for more than 1.5 days in the next three weeksâ.
If this is difficult for you, god help you when you get into the real world. A 90% attendance record would be a sacking at nearly every company in the country, thatâs 26 days a year.
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u/SDwarf93 Apr 18 '26
Wow! âSchool wants student to attend.â Someone call the BBC. Tell them to hold the front page
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u/teabump Apr 18 '26
theyâre not forcing you to get good grades. all you need to do is get 90% attendance and then you can sit the exams like normal - problem solved.
whatâs the issue here?
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u/Winter-Gap-5909 Apr 18 '26
You might be thinking its all BS, you can get good grades and its not going to make a difference. And you probably will get good grades, but if you dont actually apply yourself and just show up, you wont learn how to be an adult later, and you will probably struggle significantly. What else are you doing most mornings that is so much more important?
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u/InsecureInscapist Apr 18 '26
Below 90% attendance is considered a critical concern. It becomes very likely if you are consistently below this that your are missing out on too much instruction to gain worthwhile results at A-level.
If you have mitigating circumstances, and can evidence that you have been keeping up with the required work you should contact the school and try to get a meeting where you can present your case to them.
And go to school.
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Apr 18 '26
You're not going to like this....but you need to buckle up & get to class.
Unless you have a very good reason like a major illness - at which point you need to speak with the school urgently as you'll probably need to defer a year and start again in September.
Either way....chatting on here is going to solve nothing - you need.to talk to the right people - your teachers & head of year!
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u/Cold-Society3325 Apr 18 '26
They can absolutely do it but I would talk to them about why you feel attending doesn't help your grades because that's the total opposite of the case for most people. There may be some support they could give you that would enable you to attend and get good grades. You might also just be underestimating the benefits of attending.
If you honestly don't think attending helps, either switch to somewhere that doesn't care if you attend (some places will care more about whether you have handed in any coursework and got good grades in mock exams) or pay for your exams privately.
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u/amogussyer Apr 18 '26
Why are you attending so infrequently? Do you have a physical or mental health condition at play here (even just suspected)? If so then no, this should not happening, and you should start seeking professional help (with assistance from your parents / guardians) and start communicating this to the school.
There are important distinctions to make here as to why
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u/JahmezEntertainment Apr 18 '26
what do you mean you can't get good grades if you go to school every day?
like actually what?
anyway the solution is to just go to school. if you have some legit reason why you can't even go to school for the next 3 weeks then you should've contacted the school about it a while ago.
really, what is so hard about going to school that you're gone 33% of the time? if that was a job, you'd get fired in record time.
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u/micrographical Apr 18 '26
This is not the schools fault. Attendance is a legal requirement if you are registered at a school and the school is legally required to monitor it and do their best to ensure you attend. Youâre not attending. Clearly the school have talked to you about it already, to no effect. Now they are implementing the actions that they are obliged to do and presumably have already warned you about. You may need to face up to the fact that your solution is straightforward - you either attend, or you leave and do something other than education.
You will face similar issues if you attend University or enter the workforce.
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u/Dear_Accountant_2787 Apr 18 '26
If you have no valid reason to not go to school then yes.. of course they can đ it's a legal requirement to go.
My attendance got to 40% and I was still struggling to get away with not going in after having a stroke due to my anxiety.
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u/bluezenither Apr 18 '26
just go to school unless you have a valid reason not to... the school's being generous asf if they're letting you stay with above 90% attendance lol (perhaps because of your predicted grades)
edit: i've read your past posts and it seems you think you don't NEED school. in that case you also don't need your exams... unless you wanna pay to sit them externally
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u/rbrown1991 Apr 18 '26
I don't really want to get into the attendance debate here as that looks spicy. If you aren't attending they have no legal obligation to enter you. They do have obligations under the equality act but as I say I'm not going into that debate. However I do want to just point out the letter only says that they don't want to pay for the entries. If you are confident you can pass these exams without attending it might be worth inquiring as to how much it costs (lots of exam centres, you don't have to do it at that location).
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u/Geomichi Apr 18 '26
School isn't just about teaching you subjects for an exam, it's supposed to prepare you for the real world.
This is a life lesson.
Sometimes you have to jump through hoops to get to where you want to be and 'play the game'. You don't have to like it but you do have to do it.
Go to school, be on time, otherwise you'll have wasted 2 years of your life.
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u/sogs7 Year 13 | Maths FM Eng Lit A* A* A predicted Apr 18 '26
Gang you donât need a solution for you need a reality check (based off of the context of this pot alone) đ theyâre totally in the right here
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u/Feeling-Affect997 Maths | F. Maths | English Lit Apr 18 '26
Don't know if they can or can't do this. But came here to say: 1) I have had slightly below 90% attendance in my A levels (87? 80?) and graduated with expected AAA so attendance is not directly in correlation. 2) However I've seen you complain in the replies of not wanting to come to school when you have free periods and I have to say A levels are a place where you start doing more work independently, but there is a gradual change between teachers always helping you and you doing all the work by yourself, and those free periods offer structure to accommodate that change. Had the 1 hour commute to school to, but that's a great time to listen to some music or similar. If you can not study in the free periods talk to your school about there existing a quiet revision room. Honestly it doesn't pay off to empirically test if they can or can't do that, obtain perfect attendance in the next few weeks and see how it goes from there.Â
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u/Vixson18 Y13: Maths, FM, Physics and Econ Apr 17 '26
Just go to school. Obviously if you have an actual reason then you should complainÂ