HOPE
Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:22 am
I know a lot of you on here are really worried about the future of your children regarding education, and each step seems fraught with problems so I want to give all you good (enough) parents some hope.
I went to CH and then on to University, met my husband there, he had come from a working class family and went to grammar school and thence to University.
Our son was a clever/lazy student and failed his 11+ so went to an Upper School, we are in a grammar area so not even a comprehensive.
Then he had appendicitis/peritonitis at 13 and was very ill for two weeks, this resulted in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for most of his teens and meant he didn't get much of an education.
At 19 he started to feel better and at 21 did evening classes to get his English and Maths GCSEs and this year age 24 he is doing an Access Higher Education course.
Yesterday he was offered a place at his first choice university, (Kent) he already had offers at two others, and was turned down by two.
I'll let you know when he gets his First
I went to CH and then on to University, met my husband there, he had come from a working class family and went to grammar school and thence to University.
Our son was a clever/lazy student and failed his 11+ so went to an Upper School, we are in a grammar area so not even a comprehensive.
Then he had appendicitis/peritonitis at 13 and was very ill for two weeks, this resulted in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for most of his teens and meant he didn't get much of an education.
At 19 he started to feel better and at 21 did evening classes to get his English and Maths GCSEs and this year age 24 he is doing an Access Higher Education course.
Yesterday he was offered a place at his first choice university, (Kent) he already had offers at two others, and was turned down by two.
I'll let you know when he gets his First