#gcses 2022

[feathertru]

Now that its getting to exam season, I've kinda started to miss GCSE season 2022. Kino and the scorpion. The dreaded circle question, all of the memes. At points I finished an exam I wasn't so much worried about how I did but for the memes that would be everywhere afterwards.

Now class of GCSE season 2022, many of us have A levels this year. Please, I ask of you:

Can we all bring the memes back for A levels 2024?

[thedivinelights]

When you love An Inspector Calls but you also love A Christmas Carol

CROSSOVER ANYONE???

Also if anyone HASN'T seen it, I highly suggest watching either BBCs 2015 movie of An Inspector Calls and/or the 1954 version with Alastair Sim as Inspector Goole (Poole in that movie, for some reason)

I love the 2015 one SOLELY because the actors are just… AMAZING in that.

(Curse you, copyright laws. Give me AIC public domain NOW instead of having to wait 30 years for it ddi T_T)

Tagged: @rom-e-o @quill-pen @ray-painter @pinkytoothlesso11 @vixx-ari

[lil-tumbles]

Okay it's finally done.

Hello, people of Tumblr! Please, please spread this survey. Send it to your kids, your classmates, your niblings. Help me out here. I need people who did their GCSEs in 2022 in England to do this survey on the impact of COVID on GCSE results. It's for my EPQ. I need 100 respondents. Please, Tumblr... The fate of my grade rests in your hands.

Here is the survey: https://forms.office.com/e/tYkks2UfHe

Also, if you got this far, here's some GIFs from superwholock below the cut.

Also, I know y'all like polls, so here.

Listen: Sam Winchester may not have been able to complete his education, but he'd want someone else to complete theirs and do well, so do this for him:

And for you Lockers? You know your guy Sherlock is smart and autistic, like me. He'd want another smart autistic person to succeed and get into a good uni (did I mention this EPQ is my big grab for a top university?). Then I can become a top detective or whatever idk I didn't watch the show I'm sorry but if you do this survey and tell me you're a Sherlock fan who saw this in the tags then I swear, I'll watch it. For you. And my grade. Please.

Finally, doctor who, my beloved fandom. I love you all so much- well, maybe not all of you, but I appreciate the fandom as a whole for everything you've done for me. The word count of ff I've contributed to this fandom (AO3: z_in_a_blue_box for proof) should tell you all how much I love this show. Here, have gay people, and go do my survey. Please. I'm begging you.

The Doctor would say to always help people when you can. This can be your kind act of the day. "Always try to be nice, never fail to be kind". Please.

Thank you, fandoms of Tumblr. I appreciate you all.

[mariacallous]

Who are the lovely dictators? You might find yourself wondering if generation Z has access to a historical cache of great guys who just didn’t want to waste their people’s ever-enriched time with stuff like democracy. The results of a study commissioned by Channel 4 this week found that 52% of gen Z, who are aged between 13 and 27, thought “the UK would be a better place if a strong leader was in charge who does not have to bother with parliament and elections”.

That feels … not great. And, of course, the reflexive tendency for many older generations is to resort immediately to ridicule of gen Z. You know the sort of thing. Oh, I guess they got bored halfway through the video summary of whichever dictator’s life, and just scrolled to the next thing. Or: this is why they have to put those captions on clips saying, “What happens at the end will blow your mind!!!!!” Short shrift would no doubt also be given to the finding that 33% of gen Z think the UK would be better off “if the army was in charge”. Ooh, the army’s going to need a lot more soldiers, then. Wait till these kids find out the age of the conscripts. You like the army? That’s great – you’re going to be the army!

The study, carried out by the polling company Craft, was based on a sample of 3,000 adults of all ages, which many people will feel is much too small. But the question on the “strong leader” seems to have been near identical to the one asked in 2022 by JL Partners, for UK Onward, in a poll of more than 8,000 adults. That latter poll found that 61% of 18- to 34-year-olds supported running the UK with “a strong leader who doesn’t have to bother with parliament/elections”.

Anyway, now we’ve got the sneering and nitpicking out of the way, perhaps it’s time to park the great British talent for deflection, particularly given today’s children’s commissioner’s report into why children became involved in last summer’s riots. At least 147 children were arrested and 84 charged, with sentences handed down to those as young as 12. Almost all were boys.

Rachel de Souza’s findings make for fairly despairing reading. None of the children she’d spoken to said they were motivated by anti-immigration or far-right beliefs – in fact, some actively disdained those. They did, however, deeply dislike and distrust the police, and felt they had few or no opportunities in life. De Souza’s research suggested they were “impulsive” and searching for a thrill. As she puts it, this raises “some really serious questions about childhood in England and why our children feel so disaffected and disempowered”.

If only we’d consider those questions with the same urgency that the authorities prosecuted and sentenced children after the riots, despite concerned parties including the NSPCC and the Youth Justice Board urging that children only be criminalised for their involvement as a last resort. Yet many children were arrested under what De Souza highlights as “unusually severe and swift charges”, despite most of them not having been in trouble with the law before.

Children might sometimes do very bad and stupid things, but they are not so stupid that they can’t see they live in a country where the gulf in opportunities is quite staggering. It’s droll to think that two months after the riots, we’d be listening to Keir Starmer’s blithe defence of his decision to take up the freebie loan of an £18m penthouse so his son could study for his GCSEs in peace and quiet. “Any parent would have made the same decision,” explained the prime minister. Any parent, if you please. I do wonder what on earth the parents of the rioting youngsters were doing making the choices they did. I would simply have let my teens spend the afternoon in an £18m penthouse instead. Anyway, speaking of guillotine-beckoning comments, perhaps it isn’t the most enormous surprise that the Channel 4 study found 47% of gen Z agreeing that “the entire way our society is organised must be radically changed through revolution”.

Again, it’s easy to dismiss, but if they believe these things, surely it’s on those of our generations who failed to make the status quo seem remotely appealing? Many of the behaviours of today’s teens and young adults are not simply thick / snowflakey / lazy, but rational responses to a world created by their elders, if not always betters. The childhood experience has deteriorated completely in the past 15 years or so. We have addicted children to – and depressed them with – smartphones, and done next to nothing about this no matter how much evidence of the most toxic harms mounts up. Children in the US are expected to tidy their rooms by generations who also expect them to rehearse active-shooter drills. We require young people to show gratitude for living in an iteration of capitalism in which they have not only no stake, but no obvious hope of getting a stake. It seems to them that there have been better times to be alive.

If overly “woke” politics was hurtled into statute, it was done by people much older than those now being harried for investing too heavily in it all. By the time today’s teens reach an age at which they might hold public office, politicians will be mere front-of-house figures to the real powers: the Silicon Valley titans. Parliaments will be self-driving. We will all be watched over by machines of loving grace.

There’s a good couplet in The Mission, a movie from the mid-cretaceous period (1986) that no one in gen Z will have watched. “Such is the world,” deflects one character. “No,” counters another. “Such have we made it.” The answer to the question “will no one think of the children?” is usually: no, not for a second. We should, though, and urgently. The future quite literally depends on it.

[theonottsbxtch]

i’m here to be a bit of a sap today, and i really don’t know who needs to hear this, but as we step into the new year, i feel like it’s something that needs to be said.

when i was a kid, i loved the idea of taking pictures. i had this cheap little kiddy camera, and i cherished it like it was made of gold. fast forward to 2016, on my birthday, i saved up everything i had and bought my first real camera. from that moment, i photographed everything: people, nature, buildings—everything i could see through the lens. i couldn’t study photography at gcse, but i pursued it for a-levels because it felt like me.

photography became part of my identity. people thought it was weird when i wasn’t carrying my camera, as if something was missing.

but then, i turned 18, and i started doubting myself. i thought maybe it was time to grow up and let it go. maybe i needed to find something more “practical.”

in 2022/23, i hit rock bottom. i worked for someone who bullied me and treated me horribly. it crushed me. i wanted to drop out of uni. i wanted to give up photography entirely.

when 2024 started, i was ready to sell my camera. i had already looked up the best places to sell it. but something deep inside me told me to hold on, so i did.

and that was the best decision i ever made.

last year, i got to live my dream. i travelled the world. i photographed an indycar race, ice hockey games, american football, basketball—you name it. all of that happened because i kept that camera and trusted my gut.

so, what’s the point of all this? here’s what i’m trying to say:

if you love to draw, pick up that pencil. if you love to write, grab that pen. if you love to dance, lace up your shoes and dance your heart out.

don’t let anyone tell you what you or your passions are worth. their opinion doesn’t define you. you do.

2025 is here. make it yours.

[covid-safer-hotties]

Pain emerges as dominant symptom in long Covid, UCL study reveals - Published Aug 28, 2024

Pain may be the most prevalent and severe symptom reported by individuals with long Covid, according to a new study led by UCL (University College London) researchers.

The study, published in JRSM Open, analysed data from over 1,000 people in England and Wales who logged their symptoms on an app between November 2020 and March 2022.

Pain, including headache, joint pain and stomach pain, was the most common symptom, reported by 26.5% of participants.

The other most common symptoms were neuropsychological issues such as anxiety and depression (18.4%), fatigue (14.3%), and dyspnoea (shortness of breath) (7.4%). The analysis found that the intensity of symptoms, particularly pain, increased by 3.3% on average each month since initial registration.

The study also examined the impact of demographic factors on the severity of symptoms, revealing significant disparities among different groups. Older individuals were found to experience much higher symptom intensity, with those aged 68-77 reporting 32.8% more severe symptoms, and those aged 78-87 experiencing an 86% increase in symptom intensity compared to the 18-27 age group.

Gender differences were also pronounced, with women reporting 9.2% more intense symptoms, including pain, than men. Ethnicity further influenced symptom severity, as non-white individuals with long Covid reported 23.5% more intense symptoms, including pain, compared to white individuals.

The study also explored the relationship between education levels and symptom severity. Individuals with higher education qualifications (NVQ level 3, 4, and 5 – equivalent to A-levels or higher education) experienced significantly less severe symptoms, including pain, with reductions of 27.7%, 62.8%, and 44.7% for NVQ levels 3, 4 and 5 respectively, compared to those with lower education levels (NVQ level 1-2 – equivalent to GCSEs).

Socioeconomic status, as measured by the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), also influenced symptom intensity. Participants from less deprived areas reported less intense symptoms than those from the most deprived areas. However, the number of symptoms did not significantly vary with socioeconomic status, suggesting that while deprivation may exacerbate symptom intensity, it does not necessarily lead to a broader range of symptoms.

Our study highlights pain as a predominant self-reported symptom in long Covid, but it also shows how demographic factors appear to play a significant role in symptom severity.

With ongoing occurrences of Covid-19 (e.g., LB.1, or D-FLiRT variants), the potential for more long Covid cases remains a pressing concern. Our findings can help shape targeted interventions and support strategies for those most at risk."

-Dr. David Sunkersing, Lead Author, UCL Institute of Health Informatics

In the paper, the researchers called for sustained support for long Covid clinics and the development of treatment strategies that prioritize pain management, alongside other prevalent symptoms like neuropsychological issues and fatigue.

Given the significant impact of demographic factors on symptom severity, the study underscored the need for healthcare policies that addressed these disparities, ensuring equitable care for all individuals affected by long Covid, the researchers said.

Study limitations included a lack of information on other health conditions participants may have had and a lack of information about health history. The researchers cautioned that the study may have excluded individuals with very severe Covid and those facing technological or socioeconomic barriers in accessing a smartphone app.

The study was led by the UCL Institute of Health Informatics and the Department of Primary Care and Population Health at UCL in collaboration with the software developer, Living With Ltd.

Source: University College London

Journal reference: Sunkersing, D., et al. (2024) Long COVID symptoms and demographic associations: A retrospective case series study using healthcare application data. Materials Today. doi.org/10.1177/20542704241274292. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20542704241274292

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HELLO EDDHEADS!!!!!!!

Took a little trip down memory lane and rewatched all the eddsworld and asdf episodes tonight, since it was a BIG obsession of mine on 2 separate occasions, but I stopped watching back in September of 2022 I think.

First time I've drawn these lovely lads in 2 years, I would've done some better drawings but I only had 1 page free in my sketchbook sadly so I had to make do with these ones since I had no space to do anything else!

All of my gcse folders had little eddsworld/asdf images on the label lol ((the asdf guy looks so bad omg) all of them look a bit wonky BUT I WAS A WEE BAIRN WHEN DRAWING THOSE SO ITS OK)

My favourite one was probably Tord...or Tom...or Matt...well IT CHANGED ALOT. They are all my favourites teehee

Eddsworld was actually the first fandom that I've ever bought merch of too!! Now THAT was a good day. I got a t-shirt of Tom, but I'm always too scared to wear it incase I ruin it lol

Now that is peak clothing.

It was actually such a fun fandom to be in, especially since one of my besties was in it so we got to exchange art about it teehee

Also here's some drawings of the chappies from back in 2022 that I quite liked

I have a Pinterest folder with over 2000 images of eddsworld stuff. I think I may of liked that show...just a touch

[beardedmrbean]

A woman who sexually assaulted a teenage boy while drunk and threatened a man with a knife on a separate occasion has been given a suspended sentence.

Delyth Davies, 36, from Maes Meurig, Gwalchmai, on Anglesey, had a 21 month sentence suspended for two years at Caernarfon Crown Court.

Judge Nicola Saffman decided to give her a chance to "stop the cycle of drunken offending".

Davies had pleaded guilty at earlier hearings to a charge of sexual assault and one of possessing a knife and threatening behaviour, with the offending happening in October 2022.

The court heard that Davies kissed a 15-year-old boy in a sexualised way and asked him if he wanted to have sex on 7 March 2022 in Llangefni.

The teenager, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, suffered from anxiety because of the attack and the incident had affected his GCSE school work, the judge was told.

In a separate incident in October 2022, Davies had become involved in a large group confrontation, after drinking heavily, and threatened one of the group with a knife.

Defence barrister Elen Owen said her client was ashamed of her actions and that the two incidents, as well as a string of previous convictions "all speak of problems with alcohol".

The judge warned Davies that failure to comply with the conditions of her suspended sentence could lead to her being brought back to court and the prison sentencing being applied.

For the charge of sexual assault, Davies was given a nine month sentence, and for threatening a man with a knife, 12 months.

The sentences run consecutively, but were suspended for 24 months.

She must complete a rehabilitation order, will be tagged and is placed under a curfew for six months.

[tartrat]

Tried out the two 2025 songs, and i guess i review songs now. That’s all this blog is now, Just Dance fanart and weird reviews of the songs that get added. I need to do fanart for other series

Calabria 2007: Sore on the arms and the song is longer than it needs to be. I like long songs but this just felt like it went on forever, and since the song is repetitive, it affects the dance. It’s fun but not one I’d do often. I’ve seen people who wanted this song in the game, and i just don’t see what they see in this song. At least it’s not Say my name (i need to stop slandering that map). Idk it’s the type of song that’s obviously meant to be played in the club or at a party.I wonder if this UnicornLover was also form our world. If not then i headcanon that Pandafan and Deerstan are her dads. Am i still a bit salty about the showdown season winner, maybe, but surprisingly Estrella wasn’t the first to return and I visited for Give that wolf a banana on accident so who’s laughing now.

Basket Case: Really fun, i like how it all seems to take place in Lumen’s imagination, with the way he draws the other two dancers into existence. Fast as well. The late 90’s early 00’s rock songs, and by extension rock bands from that era and songs inspired by them, have been really fun to do, like Bring me to life, Numb, I am my Own Muse, tainted love, and now Basket case, all so good and i don’t listen to rock bands or most bands for that matter (you seem to have to know all the lore about them). I wonder if Lumen is friends with Scotty, they seem like they’d get on well. Like Lumen seems to have this crazy imagination and Scotty has surrealist nightmares. Lumen would love one of those 64 packs of crayola crayons with the sharpener on them. The demon does look like a combination of Deadpool and the British spider man. The names for this song weren’t added at the time I’m writing this so all we have is the twitter post that tells us Lumen’s name so I’m just gonna call the diver and demon purple and red until they tell us their names.

On a weird side note, i have an oc that i made for a story i was making and their original name was Lumen, but then I realised that that’s the name for part of a blood vessel, because i was doing my biology gcse at the time, and eventually just changed their name to Elle. Weird how I’m seeing that name again.

I’m fully expecting My Chemical Romance to be in Just Dance 2026 at this point, even though i don’t care for their music. Now how do we get them to do a duet between Blake and Liv to My Immortal by Evanescence (that’s the only other evanescence song i know)

TLDR: I love Basket Case and Calabria 2007 is definitely a song that was produced in the 2000s

Here are my scores with the camera scoring, there seems to be a bit of a server issue that won’t save them but will probably be fixed within the next hour. I’ve gotten way too used to using the joycon so the camera feels weird now even though that’s all i used up until 2022. Fuck you Microsoft this is somehow your fault, should’ve just kept Kinect support but nooo, people thought they were seeing ghosts and you got scared that you’d confirm evidence of the supernatural when it was just the technology of 2007.

[mcl39]

okay so I saw you talking about cognitive functions in the tags of a lando post and I am SO HERE FOR IT if you feel like sharing your F1 MBTI thoughts... two separate interests coming together 👀

(even people who talk about MBTI are usually wrong/boring because they're going off of the test letters and not the functions! tell me about Lando's Ti!?)

hi!! your ask finds me at a perfect time bc i recently fell back into the mbti rabbithole and spent a feverish late night a couple days ago writing a document on lando's type....

i'm not sure exactly which post u saw bc i think i mentioned Ti on multiple? but essentially i've been documenting lando's dom Ti for years now bc he was actually v hard to type so it was v satisfactory to finally figure it out & see it demonstrated again and again

i think it's pretty clear if you're going by the functions that lando is an ixxp - his independence, his deep desire to be understood for who he actually is, insistence on honesty at the expense of everything else, outspokenness (or as i call it, foot-in-mouth syndrome), contrarian streak, etc., all point to the fact that he leads with an introverted judging function. but it was actually difficult at first to figure out which one, out of Fi and Ti. i guess lando just vibes like an Fi user, which is why pdb (useless evil website) universally types him as an Fi user (they actually type him as an enfp which is. silly silly). but over time it's become more and more obvious to me that he's actually a Ti dom

i think nowadays it makes a lot more sense than when i started typing him back in 2020-2021, because he's made his doggedly-realist / argumentative / pedantic nature a lot more visible than when he was put in the silly goofy clown-rookie-baby box back then. u can generally spot his Ti (if you're looking for it) in pretty much all his answers to interview questions. whenever he rambles or elaborates on anything it's very rarely about his personal feelings on a situation, and very often overexplaining and overclarifying logical processes / his own reasonings / his understanding of why something happened. when he's asked when he first decided he wanted to go into f1, he doesn't elaborate at all on any strong 'feeling' that he had to do it, or self-belief (of which he says he didn't have much), or anything of the sort; instead, he explains why at 13-14, because you're moving into single seaters, and getting into gcse age at school, and have to commit to missing a lot more time from school, the combination of factors makes it the obvious age to make a proper decision about whether to actually stick to the f1 goal. it was actually so obvious in the little post-race summaries on the mclaren app when he used to be paired with daniel, because daniel would inevitably open with his own feelings on the race / sessions / country they were in, while lando kept it mostly factual all the way through

anyways. short list of Ti things lando does that make me smile: 1. pedantic correcting of questions / spotting hidden premises behind questions / specifying and clarifying questions; i think maybe the post you saw me reblog was the one where he answers google autocomplete questions, and he's asked if he can sing, to which he replies "i mean i can sing, anyone can sing, but can i sing well? no". another recent interview where he does it a lot is this 'hot or not' interview he did a couple weeks ago, where he clarifies almost every single prompt and points out so many caveats that even the ppl in the comments notice. this is not broad strokes 'efficiency and usefulness' Te. it's the endlessly detailed and exception-riddled labyrinths of Ti logic

2. being a general menace because he refuses to compromise on what he sees as the 'truth', even if it's not appropriate / polite. like when he insisted in multiple interviews that he had no sympathy for daniel, or the fantastically pessimistic early 2022 interviews ("well, the only way is up, lando" "no it’s - no. the only way is not up, for us it can also be down")

3. gaming the system on so many mclaren games / challenges because he figures out how to cheat the game instead of actually using any general knowledge (he does this in the estrella galicia quiz with carlos where he figures out multiple questions based exclusively on the game itself rather than actually knowing the answers) (also does this in the naomi schiff gulf quiz, where he clocks that he just needs to be closer to the real number than naomi, so he only goes one up or down) (also does this in any true or false game ever, especially truth or phish with daniel)

4. driving max fewtrell up the wall by engaging in stupid arguments that involve building a jenga tower of logic based off a single premise (like when he used 'you're only as good as your last game' to argue that he is a better golfer than max based on a single game where he won) (or insisted that a hot choc mix can't expire because it's a powder). he's wrong in both of these arguments, and he knows he's wrong - he's doing it to rile max up, because he knows max (who i believe is an Fi/Te user) cannot stand it. his comfortability manipulating logic / being able to trace the logical steps from a premise to a conclusion / focusing on the building blocks on logic rather than the accuracy of its result matches (my understanding of) high Ti

anyways, the dom Ti becomes extremely obvious once u identify his Fe, which is soooo much easier to spot. the way i generally identify the fourth function is by trying to see what function the person has anxiety about / wants to be better at / has identified as an area of growth especially as an adult. and eeeevery time lando talks about wanting to improve (not in the context of racing), it's about social impact. it's either speaking out about mental health, or trying to be a more collaborative teammate, or learning to communicate more clearly so his mum won't see headlines that paint him as a bad guy, or even just calling his friends more often. his relationship w the team is a source of constant anxiety but also fulfilment for him, where he wants so desperately to make them proud & speaks often abt how uncomfortable he feels that he has so many people relying on him. he says having to speak to the entire factory (1000+ people) brings him more anxiety than race day

anyways i personally type lando as an istp, which sounds kind of unrealistic if i don't motivate it bc the istp stereotype is so far removed from lando's personality - lando isn't quiet, or stoic, or unemotional, or particularly macho (compared to his racing peers). but as i am also a Ti dom who also happens to be very social / enjoy partying / cry easily, i feel like it's a bit easier for me to spot the real Ti through the fog

[soxendanso]

Old GCSE work from 2022 - Alan Lee studies from his book 'Faeries'

Back in GCSE we had the prompt 'All Creatures Great and Small' which I loathed. However, my art teacher said that we could enter as much extra work as we wanted, so I made a second sketchbook on things I actually enjoyed and was therefore much better quality than the actual official sketchbook. Somehow managed to get a 9 and honestly I think it was my second sketchbook which carried me. Posting GCSE stuff because I can't post my A-Level work (yet) and I'm tired and have nothing of substance to post.

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[fanganfessions]

i started writing an instaronpa back in...2022? and then went on hiatus after the first chapter in 2023 to do my gcses and then just. never returned to it. i have the draft notes for a reboot and every few months i cant stop thinking about the reboot but i never do anything with it. i still haven't deleted the sprites or the images off my ipad. its just sitting there. haunting me.

maybe once my big longass fanfic im writing is over i'll return to it. i want to finish it so bad. but its ghost still continues to haunt me.

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[ukrfeminism]

Violet felt misunderstood and invisible when she was at school, as though teachers did not care or believe in her. She was permanently excluded aged 16, just before her GCSEs. 

Racial injustice could have been to blame. New research from the charity Agenda Alliance has revealed that girls from a Black Caribbean background are excluded from school at double the rate of white girls.

A freedom of information request to the Department for Education found that in the 2021/2022 academic year, white girls were excluded at a rate of 0.06. That equates to six exclusions for every 10,000 pupils.

Black Caribbean girls were excluded at a rate of 0.12, while it was even higher for girls of a mixed white and Black Caribbean background at 0.14.

“Things were bad at school and sometimes things were bad at home but nobody ever gave me support,” Violet says. “When I was permanently excluded – just before my GCSEs – I didn’t know who I was going to be or what I’d do.

“I think there’s stigma around Black British girls. We’re treated differently with perceptions about us. We’re often punished just for being different. We get told off for the way uniforms look on our bodies, but they’re just not made for our body types and don’t fit us in the same way as white girls. 

“Also, sometimes Black girls just have an opinion and it’s then taken as aggressive, or we’re just labelled ‘rude’. I could do the same thing as a white girl and I would get in 10 times more trouble.”

Research from charity Voyage Youth, which tackles racial imbalance in London, has found that around 70% of students had never been consulted on policies that affect them in school.

School rules can be “overly oppressive of self-expression”, with beauty products and hair styling often come up as valid reasons for punishing young people. Voyage Youth has seen that exclusions are often fuelled by “huge misunderstandings and misconceptions about young people of colour”. 

Paul Anderson, the charity’s founder, explains that one of the key issues is ‘adultification’. He says: “Young people are mistreated as they are seen as mature, aggressive and more physical so their behaviours and actions are seen as intentional and not accidental.

“Many young people express they are not understood and valued by some teachers as many working in inner cities have no understanding of young peoples lived experiences, cultures, races and religions. This creates a disassociation and distance and can lead to teachers making recommendation to exclude due to a lack of understanding about diverse lives.”

Family background also plays a role – if parents are not present at school events, teachers might be able to “exploit this gap” and young people feel particularly targeted.

Anderson adds: “We are also concerned about new covert policies schools are also adopting such as managed moves. This is when one school partners with another to swap young people that are on the peripheries of exclusion. This helps them overcome being exposed as excludees.”

The situation is even worse for girls from Gypsy, Roma and Irish traveller girls, who are excluded at triple the rate of their white peers. 

Pauline Anderson, the chair of trustees at the Traveller Movement, says: “Schools are legally required to have behaviour policies in place that address race-based bullying, yet these educational institutions are continuing to fail to protect our children. 

“We need to see a zero-tolerance policy for racist bullying in schools from both pupils and staff. For our young girls, the combined discrimination of racism and ableism as well as sexism has a detrimental impact on them.”

Agenda Alliance is calling for schools to adopt improved behavioural policies, addressing how gender and racial stereotypes are disproportionately impacting girls. 

The charity wants all specialist staff working with children at risk of exclusion to have better training that is aware of how culture, gender, age and experiences of trauma might impact behaviour. 

Agenda Alliance also warns thatresponses to high rates of absenteeism “must avoid unnecessarily punitive approaches”, and instead work to address the root causes of girls’ absence from school alongside girls and specialist organisations that support them.

I ndy Cross, Chief Executive of Agenda Alliance, says: “These are extremely worrying findings. We are calling for zero tolerance to harmful behaviour policies which blight girls’ futures. We know schools do a tough job and that teachers are hard pressed. But by the government’s own measure, girls at the sharpest end of disadvantage are being set up to fail.

“Racial and gender stereotypes have no place in today’s education for young women. Enough is enough. No more excuses that poverty also inevitably jeopardises education. We can – and must – do better than this.”

Alba Kapoor, Head of Policy at the Runnymede Trust adds: “These disturbing statistics reflect the racism that continues to pervade every aspect of our school system. That girls from Black and minority ethnic backgrounds are being disproportionately punished and marginalised as a result, is something that needs to urgently be addressed.” 

“That’s why we are calling on schools to implement a temporary halt on school exclusions, and to instead prioritise non-punitive, proactive approaches which actually address harm. This would of course need meaningful investment in education from the government.

“It will take whole-school approaches to root out racism, and embed anti-racism throughout school cultures, policies and curricula. This means improving racial literacy amongst teachers, broadening the curriculum to help students learn about race, migration and Empire, and doing away with discriminatory policies which disproportionately target Black and minority ethnic children.”

Fatima Ahmed, helpline coordinator at Southall Black Sisters, says: “In my experience, young black girls who have approached our services often struggle to remain focused or remain in schools at all due to their multi-faceted and consistent experiences of racial injustice. For example, those who experience violence at home or in any other setting are less likely to directly approach their schools for support, which is why they may approach a local domestic abuse agency to advocate on their behalf. 

“There is no one proven way to challenge racial injustice in schools as, often, it depends on the school’s geographical location and willingness of institutions to prioritize the experiences of young black girls subject to racial injustice. One suggestion would be to take a synergistic approach by bringing together teachers, counsellors, and safeguarding professionals to create tools to tackle structural racism and embed racial injustice awareness into every subject possible.”

Violet was referred to the charity Milk Honey Bees who offered support and empowered her to be herself. The charity supports Black girls who have been excluded and those who are at risk of exclusion and sees stories like Violet’s far too often. 

Ebinehita Iyere, founder and managing director of Milk Honey Bees, says: “In my experience as a practitioner, racial biases are applied resulting in harsher punishment for things such as uniform or lateness. 

“As an organisation, we are calling for support from policymakers, schools, funders and our wider community to understand and foster positive relationships between teachers and Black girls to stop them being marginalised by the education system. 

“Only a joined up therapeutic approach will work. Creating safe spaces for Black girls to heal from their traumatic schooling experiences must be a priority, in order to prevent further risk of exclusion.”

With the right support, Violet found hope for her future. She says: “I got referred to Milk Honey Bees who worked with me and reassured me that it’s okay to be myself, without judging me from stuff on my form but going off my relationship with them. Now I see there’s a lot more I can offer in the world but, at school when I was excluded, I felt like if my school has given up on me, why should I believe in myself?”

[medusaoddball]

during my gcses in 2022 i was having a mental breakdown continuously and couldn’t stop making images like this

[wereoz]

YAY when i saw u tagged me my mouth literally dropped open THANKS @belleandsaintsebastian

last song: dancing barefoot!! was so obsessed with that song around… 2022? and about every other time i encounter it

currently watching: twd & the mentalist!! love twd sm i love long series and how they become homey and i love thinking abt constant underlying messages which twd is RIFE with. i am watching this season quite infrequently tho just cuz i don’t enjoy it as much as the others and i have been angry ranting abt it tbh………

the mentalist is quite frankly…… bad. 😭😭 WELL actually idk…… like it has strong points and obviously something abt it hooks me cuz hello i’m on s4 but in s1 & 2 i was like thats so cliched and annoying and that’s literally just police brutality so….. but in s3 i was enjoying parts & building little fantasy worlds abt it in my head & oh my god im obsessed w teresa lisbon & i LOVED the finale because it had DRAMA!!!! but then all the drama surrounding one plot avenue is just SUCKED OUT (imo) in the beginning if s4 so??? and one plot thread was just left so like thats annoying….. and the main guy at the last few minutes of an episode was literally told. i’ve diagnosed u with aspd (well. he said ‘psycopath’ i think but then when he lightheartedly asked a coworker he used the term ‘anti social personality’ so) and its like…. a joke basically so…… thank u very cool. literally that one house autism GOTCHA moment i had flashbacks

currently reading: love and marriage by monica ali, i got it from my english teacher cuz she brought in her favs. it was funny cuz last minute she was like oh no i forgot!!!! theres a lot of sex!!!!ask if u have questions i’m ur pshe teacher!!! very earnest & giggly shes great. i like it so far and the style of writing, im VERY interested in where its going, so glad i’ve found a book i enjoy sm

‘how far we’ve come’, for a competition…… ough i need to pick that up again before time runs out.

fever wake, very interesting to read, especially cuz i always read it before bed , all hazy and tired lmao

lesbians guide to catholic school, just for the mandatory 10 mins reading at my school in english. don’t really like the writing style, but i find the main character, yamilet’s, unique relationship w her family SO interesting. being the second favourite just bc shes a girl, how she reconciles her love for her brother with how frustrating that is, homophobia from beloved family members, and her dad being deported all interest me a lot

current favourites: …..always hot chocolate & whipped cream, my binder!!!!! oat biscuits, pasta, painting in acrylics & just working in my gcse sketchbook in general, collaging, imagining scenarios & fic scenes in my head especially w music, listening to music to and from school, when i make people laugh, that i’ve become more social and less afraid to talk to people,

no pressure tags <3 : @gayfilmbro @preordainedplace (again!! no pressure esp for u!! cuz ik were not mutuals but i love ur blog & art <3 and with it being so hard to find anyone posting abt one deranged movie released 13 years ago it feels like were locked in the same cage already lmao) @1985houndsoflove @thelastdaysofrocknroll @thepunkmuppet @doctorgregoryhouse @pnt03prcnt

[steelycunt]

ten books 2 know me!

thank for you the tag @pancakehouse @fruity-individual @serethereal @rollercoasterwords !

-> skulduggery pleasant, derek landy.

starting with this one because this WAS my childhood i was. i never read percy jackson never read twilight read [redacted] and it wasnt even good but my dad thought id like these so he bought me the first skulduggery pleasant one day...oh man oh boy...these were. i was eight queuing up outside a whsmith with a schoolbag full of books for the author's booksigning...also he was so nice ta derek x

-> giovanni's room, james baldwin.

cannot get into this too much before i start wailing and biting and stuff but well. giovanni's room is my favourite book of all time i read most of it. last year in june laying on brighton beach while the sun was going down and i have never recovered from and will you bring me home again / yes. i'll bring you home again since and fear i never will. also! first james baldwin book i read who has come to be an author whose writing style i adore and carry in my mind whenever i try to write something myself.

-> young mungo, douglas stuart.

not the first book i ever cried at but. first book i ever experienced disgusting full body sobs while reading and fierce competitor also for. my favourite book. had to reread so much of those final pages because i couldnt concentrate with all the crying and after that i am so excited to never have to experience the physical chest-aching worry that i did for the duration of reading this. also i think the very quiet way love is written here through. very trivial small things is something i loved very much and that has stayed with me!

-> wuthering heights, emily bronte.

read this when i was about eleven, and then again a few weeks ago with my mum (whose favourite book it is) and it was still so. absolutely sickening i just think its excellent xx and without it we wouldn't have kate bush's 1978 single wuthering heights so xx think on that xx

-> the autobiography of malcom x, alex haley.

when i was a child my younger sister joined a sunday league football team and my dad used to give her a tenner every time she scored a goal. to even things out since i refused to get up at the arsecrack of dawn to contract hypothermia on a frozen football pitch, he started giving me books exclusively on malcolm x to read and would give me a tenner every time i finished one. this one was the first i read and was indeed the first book that ever made me cry at the end xx

-> my brilliant friend, elena ferrante.

so many of these are recent reads because it was only jan 2022 that i made a genuine effort to get back into reading for leisure and mbf is no different but well. the way friendship is written here is just unhinged and incredible and the series in general so far has been. there is nothing like it i fear

-> the raven boys, maggie steifvater.

gansey unfortunately.

-> macbeth, william shakespeare.

okay i know i know but. when you are studying it in englit class for your gcse it might as well be a book innit. anyway of all the texts i did for english both at gcse + a level macbeth is still my favourite and probably the most effort i ever put into an english essay. special shoutout to frankenstein which i can enjoy in hindsight but unfortunately it fucked me on the exam so out of bitterness it doesnt get a place here x

-> the secret history, donna tartt.

i did inhale this book but also it gets a place purely for being my first exposure to donna tartt's writing and style in general which is so very distinctive and has. undoubtedly had an effect on me for better or for worse we shall one day see but for now. who can say!

-> foster, claire keegan.

it is a little pamphlet of a book at eighty six pages but. i read it just over a month ago and havent properly stopped thinking about it since it was just everything quiet + mundane + understated that makes my brain start sparking and whirring and. im bringing it on holiday in the summer so i can read it again in the appropriate season xx

tagging. but no pressure. @gaewaren @dykefever @emerqldv @fastasyoucan1999 @forlorngarden @writteninverses @boyjoan !!