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Roland Perry · October 4th 10, 01:55 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message , at 12:24:48 on Mon, 4 Oct
2010, d remarked:

Round here, most of the 6th Form Colleges get better A-Level results
than the schools.

I'd call a kid who goes to 6th form college a pupil, not a student.

Then you are out of step with much of society. Like the NUS, who sign up
6th-formers these days.

The NUS are and always have been a joke. Only the people running it who all
seem to believe they're a future prime minister in waiting don't realise that.

The NUS card is quite handy, and 6th formers can get one.

If I hadn't spent a "gappy kind of year" doing my Cambridge scholarship
exams, I could easily have gone to university aged 17 and a quarter.

I took a gap year and got a job to earn money to go to university. Unlike the
trustafarians who bum around foreign climbs with daddies gold card patronising
the locals.

I didn't have any money, which is why I spent the second and third terms
that year still at school, as (mainly) a form of volunteer technology
teacher.
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Roland Perry