Advice needed on teachers error.

[dbgtz]

I just finished my GCSEs and failed one subject as expected which was ICT Dida. Now, I failed the first unit because my teacher said that he would check the standard of the work, but then decides to send it off. To back up how out of it he is, after half a year of teaching me he thought I was new and made me do irrelevant things for lesson.

Anyway so after failing that, it turns out I was a couple of marks from passing. So the head of ICT goes and says that I can just do the next unit and if I do well enough, it will make up for the previous unit giving me the full 2 GCSE equivalents I should have got. Firstly, I thought that I could resubmit it. So I go and email the exam board saying if I could and they said I had until december for it to be submitted but, despite the evidence, my teacher says no I can not submit unit 1, so I just don't bother arguing as he wouldn't budge.

Then far too late due to personal issues involving an operation, I realise that the whole thing didn't make sense so email the exam board again, and they backed up my suspicions and say the first unit is compulsory and can not be "made up" and to be quite honest I felt stupid with going along with it for the few months I was at school before the issues. I did show the head of ICT but I can't quite remember what he said, it was something about his friend sayingit was possible. This was then not an issue for a while because of personal issues (I showed him this before the operation).

So when getting back, I was trying to do both the compulsory unit and the other unit at the same time but realised I was far too tired and there was too little time considering I had other coursework which I know I would do well in and I had to teach myself a lot of science aswell, in addition to basic revision. So I just continue with unit 3, essentially giving up with the course but just done it for fun as I was on the website creation bit which I didn't mind and I saw it as practice.

Anyway, after errors with the site due to compatibility, it took a while to submit and I didn't have a lesson after I submitted the fully functional version. So on the last day, me and my friend go after school to see him as a joke (as no one liked him and went to see him for the fun of it as things he said was ridiculous). Anyway I mention the coursework, seeing if he got it and, as you may of guessed, he said no he didn't look and by that time he had already submitted it and then had to cheek to blame him not submitting my coursework because of my time off school and that it's very hard to manage work when having long periods like that off, even though I actually completed it.

tl;dr the head of ICT doesn't allow me to resubmit my 1st unit, and then gets me to do the wrong unit of which my teacher doesn't submit.

I would also like to add something about my ICT teacher, when I returned he did not know my name and I had to tell him about 5 times that I was off from my operation when he was questioning me.

The point of this post is to rant a little, but also to ask a couple of things:
1) Is it worth my complaining to the school about? I mean, I got more then enough c+ grades for college so would it be a waste of my time? I mean it has annoyed me greatly and I still could have got the qualification out of it which still could be what gets me hired in a job or not.
2) If I did take action, what could happen to both of the people?
3) If I decide to take action, who should I contact?

Also sorry if the post has any spelling errors, I typed it fast as I knew it would be lengthy and thanks in advance to any help.

[scottish]

http://www.gtce.org.uk/parents/code/complaints/ I think

[beth]

i think you will hit a snag with yr first point, though yr teacher said they would "check" the standard of work before they personally submitted, the exam board will say you should've submitted work to the best of yr ability initially. i only say this because we had an art teacher who told all her students she would personally look through all sketchbooks before submitting them and then got ill, and couldn't. students tried to complain to the exam board and the exam board told them they should've submitted work to the best of their ability initially.

[Accipiter]

To work to the best of your ability is to also gain feedback, it's education.

If you don't ask for it you will merely do poor, so in the exams board mistake, they've got the whole education thing really ****** up if they believe feedback ruins your "ability".

[dbgtz]

i think you will hit a snag with yr first point, though yr teacher said they would "check" the standard of work before they personally submitted, the exam board will say you should've submitted work to the best of yr ability initially. i only say this because we had an art teacher who told all her students she would personally look through all sketchbooks before submitting them and then got ill, and couldn't. students tried to complain to the exam board and the exam board told them they should've submitted work to the best of their ability initially.

That bit was really only included for a background to it, and he's left now anyway.

To work to the best of your ability is to also gain feedback, it's education.

If you don't ask for it you will merely do poor, so in the exams board mistake, they've got the whole education thing really ****** up if they believe feedback ruins your "ability".

Wait... what? This is about the head of IT getting me to do the wrong unit therefore ultimately making me fail and then my teacher not submitting said unit. Nothing to do with my ability...

[Accipiter]

Mine was more at the above post about the exam board saying working to your best of your ability means not getting feedback.

Yours needs looking into if the teacher is being that gormless.