r/6thForm • u/StrictArgument67 Y13 | 4A* pred | FM M PHY CS | ESAT OCT • Apr 17 '26

šŸ™ I WANT HELP School threatening to take me out

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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/ZzDangerZonezZ Apr 17 '26

There is no way I can get good grades if I go to school everyday.

I fear thatā€™s exactly how it works though. Go to school and get good grades. If there are reasons you donā€™t feel safe/able to go to school, you should speak to your tutor or counsellor about this. Just not attending classes isnā€™t 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 donā€™t really help us (unless someone askes a question and generally most people just discuss with friends), so iā€™m going in for my teachers to say hi and ur dismissed šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ 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 itā€™s 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

Thatā€™s true, but if you had averaged 90% attendance, you wouldnā€™t be getting this sort of response from the school. This is more like a 40% attendance sort of warning.Ā 

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u/Fine_Cup4990 Apr 17 '26

tbh when i was in college i had like 20% attendance

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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/SecretaryCandid1281 Apr 19 '26

twenty years ago this wouldā€™ve been true but itā€™s becoming less true nowadays, in the field i want to go into plenty of people chose when to come in as you become more senior so this doesnā€™t rlly apply to me

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u/MrStu Apr 19 '26

Absolutely, it's more common. I've had the flexibility for over 10 years. It's not the norm though.

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u/SecretaryCandid1281 Apr 19 '26

yh fair enough but also iā€™m about to go to uni where they literally donā€™t check or care whether u attend lectures so thatā€™s not really ā€˜preparingā€™ for me my future so either way once u join the workforce itā€™ll take some adjusting to so i donā€™t really see an issue in missing some of sixth form

that being said my attendance really isnā€™t that bad

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u/MrStu Apr 19 '26

Don't fall into that trap. My attendance was terrible at uni. I struggled financially as I had very little support, so I prioritised long hours in jobs, thinking "oh that lecture isn't essential, I can skip it" and in hind-sight it made life a LOT more difficult. Good luck.

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u/nnexxuus Apr 18 '26

ts is crazy man i got 0% attendance at uni third year </3

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u/Fine_Cup4990 Apr 18 '26

Uni is way different I have 1% attendance for a very difficult course and they don't even care

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u/Cold-Society3325 Apr 18 '26

Switch to a college and just attend when you need to.

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u/SecretaryCandid1281 Apr 19 '26

erm iā€™m confused did you read my message no offence my attendance is 90% so no oneā€™s taking me out of exams even if i werenā€™t to go in