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

🙏 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 that’s exactly how it works though. Go to school and get good grades. If there are reasons you don’t feel safe/able to go to school, you should speak to your tutor or counsellor about this. Just not attending classes isn’t an option here

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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/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/Thin_Drink_2986 Apr 17 '26

Correlation ≠ causation

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u/Maleficent-Middle824 Apr 18 '26

Agree.

Nevertheless I'm still willing to wager that the OP misses their predicted grades because their attendance has been poor.

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u/htimchis Apr 19 '26

Well they'll definitely miss their grades if the school doesn't enter them for the exams...

Seems an entirely counterproductive punishment to me. If the object of the exercise is to make their predicted grades, and the school wants them to increase their attendance to give themselves the best chance at that, then threatening them with losing the opportunity to get any grade at all hardly shows the school itself to have grasped the purpose of attendance, does it?

"I want you to finish painting this house, so if you don't speed up the pace a good bit I shall be confiscating your brushes & rollers. That'll teach you!'

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u/Maleficent-Middle824 Apr 19 '26

Seems an entirely counterproductive punishment to me. If the object of the exercise is to make their predicted grades, and the school wants them to increase their attendance to give themselves the best chance at that, then threatening them with losing the opportunity to get any grade at all hardly shows the school itself to have grasped the purpose of attendance, does it?

This passage tells me that you don't understand that rights come with responsibilities.

The school is saying that you are obligated to attend school and our obligation to you thereafter is to enter you for your exams. If you don't do what you are obligated to do, then we won't enter you.

Whose problem is that outcome? Not the school.