My education is messed up
In January 2014 me and my parents were called into my secondary school to have a ‘meeting’ with some of my teachers. Basically they all said I was doomed to fail my exams and I should “seek an easier option than A-levels” . Heartbroken, all thoughts of ever attending the Post 16 Centre were desolated and I chose to do a Carpentry & Joinery course at the college in my town. I came to terms with this and and just got on with life. Exams came. I found all of them strangely easy but thinking I’d fail them all anyway I just did my best. Results day came. I had managed a C or higher in everything with the exception of GCSE maths, but I had even achieved a high D grade in that. Although this was one of the best things ever and I’d proved the teachers wrong, I instantly felt really depressed. I was stuck on a year long course that I really didn’t want to do, with no ability to swap because I’d already started the coursework for it and the college refused to let me move. In October 2014 I’d really had enough, so applied to the Post 16 Centre. By January 2015 they’d managed to set up a meeting where I was told the exact same that I was a year previous. I still applied to do A-levels. In February 2015 college Post 16 had sent me a letter, telling me I’d be doing A-levels at my college. And this is where I am now, stuck doing Joinery, Level 2 (which I have to do in order for the first year to count), two days a week and the other three plus weekends and weeknights either at home or in a small room alone doing 4 A-levels. Wonderful, with no social life or friends. All because the teachers has no faith in me whatsoever.
