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d34noj said:
Back when my kids were young, 2 and 4 - I had them both in the bath together, I turned round in the bathroom to have a No.1 and my eldest said 'god dad you've got the biggest Willy in the world!'... All I heard in the bedroom was the wife wetting herself.

Cowbag.
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On a related note, my mates 5 year old, who had obviously just realised that you get taller every year, reckoned I was obviously the oldest man in the world as I'm 6'5"
 
d34noj said:
As does plumbing.

My eldest is in something called 'route zero' where all of his work is invigilated by one of a number of Universities in the country (his is done by Cambridge) and all it seems to have done is cut him off from the rest of the school so he doesn't socialise with the other students - he's in a group of 30 kids in a school of 1000 and the 30 are the only kids he sees.
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Never heard of that scheme. What's he studying?
 

chrismpw said:
Never heard of that scheme. What's he studying?
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He's 15 and did his first lot of GCSE's last year - we were invited to Notts Uni a couple of months ago as they want him there too, he wants to do something to do with science (a forensic sciences course there caught his eye).

The group he's in is called Route Zero, it's supposed to push him and help him academically - for example he wasn't allowed to choose any options he wanted for his GCSE's, no art, no IT studies, no drama etc., only more maths, English or Sciences. All of his afterschool clubs are chosen for him too.
 
d34noj said:
He's 15 and did his first lot of GCSE's last year - we were invited to Notts Uni a couple of months ago as they want him there too, he wants to do something to do with science (a forensic sciences course there caught his eye).

The group he's in is called Route Zero, it's supposed to push him and help him academically - for example he wasn't allowed to choose any options he wanted for his GCSE's, no art, no IT studies, no drama etc., only more maths, English or Sciences. All of his afterschool clubs are chosen for him too.
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Sounds weird. He doesn't seem to have any choices. Keeping them from the rest of the school sounds like something you might do either to your best students if they are being distracted in a horrendous school, or your most distruptive students if you want to stop them distracting others! Hope it works out for him though.
 
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Sounds weird. He doesn't seem to have any choices. Keeping them from the rest of the school sounds like something you might do either to your best students if they are being distracted in a horrendous school, or your most distruptive students if you want to stop them distracting others! Hope it works out for him though.
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me too mate, it's by no means a horrendous school, although I do tell him on a regular basis it's the schools way of segregating geeks for their own safety.
 

d34noj said:
me too mate, it's by no means a horrendous school, although I do tell him on a regular basis it's the schools way of segregating geeks for their own safety.
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Yeah. I can see how it will help focus, keeping distractions away. A great many kids are dragged down by the majority, in some schools, because it's not seen as cool to do well. It's a British disease it seems, which marks a fear of failure.
 

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