Exams are very strange by Naomi Fisher Do we really want our teenagers to spend their adolescence on a conveyor belt of high stakes exams?
What a strange thing we do to our young people in this culture and time.
We make them spend several years learning things that they often have no interest in, that they have not chosen and that they will in many cases never use again. We tell them...
Home education GCSE options when home learning. Thinking about exams?
Planning for exams as a home-educating parent can feel overwhelming at first. The system is confusing, and the pressure can be real. But you don’t need to cram in a stack of GCSEs by age 16, and there’s no rule saying you must follow the school model - or even do them at all.
