How strict is your School?

[Empired]

Sorry if I'm going a bit off topic here, but just out of curiosity... what does sixth form mean? I'm Canadian so I don't quite understand the lingo. Cheers

It's further education for 16 - 18 year olds

[UnrealGoffEmo]

It's further education for 16 - 18 year olds

True and optional to boot (well at least Coll wise) :Content:

[Drewar]

It's further education for 16 - 18 year olds

True and optional to boot (well at least Coll wise) :Content:

So you're only obligated to go to school until you're 16? So "high school" is over at 16? And then you have the choice to go to your Sixth Form from 16-18?

Do you specialize in Sixth Form like a college? Or is it like a continuation of high school?

[Empired]

So you're only obligated to go to school until you're 16? So "high school" is over at 16? And then you have the choice to go to your Sixth Form from 16-18?

Do you specialize in Sixth Form like a college? Or is it like a continuation of high school?

I am the last year that was able to leave education at sixteen. The year below me is required to stay in some form of education until they are 18. That can be a sixth form, a college, an apprenticeship, or a work placement with the correct training.

At secondary school, you get to choose four GCSE subjects from the list your school offers you (normally things like history, geography, a language of some form, RE, extra sport, art, media, music, dance, etc.) at the end of Year 9. You then take those four subjects plus english language, english literature, double or triple science, maths and basic PE throughout Years 10 and 11.

Idk much about anything else but at sixth form, it's normal for someone to take four AS Levels (that's in Year 12) and then drop one for A2 (Year 13). But some ppl do 3 or 5 AS Levels, just up to them. You specialise a lot more in those 3 - 5 subjects than you would do at GCSE but not as much as at University.

[Chippiewill]

Oh, and if you were late for a class by even one minute, you had to go to the cafeteria for the "late program", where you had to sit in solitude in the cafeteria and you weren't allowed to talk to anyone. So basically they forced you to miss out on your education if you were only a minute late (due to school bus running late, or any other reason).

It's like those schools where they punish missing school with suspensions. Sound logic right there.

[UnrealGoffEmo]

It's like those schools where they punish missing school with suspensions. Sound logic right there.

Agreed yeah