Talk Hearts Daily News Thread

[Cheeky Gnando’s]

What big problem did they think was going to happen?  I keep seeing this needed to happen to give credibility to the system (people also valuing the system more than the students it's actually meant to benefit funnily enough) but surely at the very worst it would see a higher percentage going to uni and maybe getting found out a bit in their first year?

I dunno if I'm thinking this is way more important and worse than it is but I just can't believe the blatant shafting kids from worse off schools are getting here and people just seem happy to accept that.  Just feels so Tory, I thought we were better than this

The very idea of poor kids doing better than “normal” after having their chance to prove themselves stripped from them was so anathema that they had to shut it down

It's actually incredible how unable we are as a society to create solutions to problems that aren't “do what we've always done”. A country full of Mikeys

They'll likely hand wave through a huge number of appeals to mitigate for this but massive damage done to the credibility of the system and the government here. Ironic, that

Was it defo impossible for the exams to be sat? Could they not have pushed them back to like June/July (with social distancing of course).

I genuinely thought they'd sit the exams. It could have been done with a bit of will and imagination. Or, you know, just postpone them til July and they could have been sorted by now.