Fault At Wimbledon Championship Due to GCSE Timing
By Alistair Owens www.keen2learn.co.uk
The mother of Laura Robson blamed the timing of the GCSE’s for her daughter’s failure at Wimbledon. The educational needs of a couple of hundred thousand children were at fault. Trying to cope with the pressure of these important exams that Laura has been working towards for the past 10 years were a problem.
A question of timing. The GCSE’s and their previous incarnation GCE’s have been historically held in June each year since the year dot. The educational calendar has cast this in stone. But the Wimbledon games of tennis clash with the dates. Which one is to be moved? Depends if you are a budding tennis star, of which we in Britain have had precious few or a generation of normal kids at school who need the result sot support their next move.
I sincerely hope that Laura excels in tennis as she will be an inspiration to a host of teenagers interested in outdoor games activities. But if she wants to gain her GCSE’s maybe she has to accept the November resists will be the better timing.
