Sometimes, people tell me random things and then stories happen. Like that time a friend told me to write a Doctor Who stapler monster. Stuff like that
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Re: Evidently Deviltown, Arc2, Part 1wendymrJuly 25 2011, 03:19:30 UTC
I'm finding this a quite fascinating AU, and I have no idea where it's going. Keep it up! :)
I do have to say, though, that Rose (if you're following canon in this respect, anyway), is not a 'drop-out'. She left school with GCSEs. which is officially the school-leaving qualification, though kids can leave school in the April after their 16th birthday whether or not they've taken state exams. A-levels, generally taken at 18, are not mandatory - and in fact they're not even a suitable qualification for many young people. They're academically-oriented, designed mostly for people who intend to go to university.
Many kids leave school with GCSEs and at that point they get a job, or they go to further education college for vocational training (apprenticeships or other qualifications). Personally, I wish more young people in the UK would stay in full-time education of any type past sixteen, but the education system as it is allows for people to leave at 16 and do whatever they want. 'High school drop-out' is very much US terminology and a US concept.
While I'm here, I have vaguely worked out, through hearing it mentioned in commercials, what a 'bucket list' is, but it's not an expression I had ever heard in the UK, so I doubt Mickey would know it. The best equivalent I can think of is probably 'wish list'.
Re: Evidently Deviltown, Arc2, Part 1bendingsignpostJuly 25 2011, 03:31:07 UTC
*headdesk* Evidently a year of study abroad was not enough to teach me that. I'm still crazy confused at the British educational system, which was not a fun feeling to have while in it.
Consider the wish list bit deleted and the above exchange edited to:
“The job in the shop’s the best I got,” she says.
“Why?”
She goes quiet. Shrugs, her shoulders up against his leg. “Not qualified for much else.”
Re: Evidently Deviltown, Arc2, Part 1wendymrJuly 25 2011, 04:29:02 UTC
That works :)
And, believe me, the English (not British, as the Scottish system is entirely different again) education system does take some understanding. It took me years, after I moved to England to work in the university system to get my head around it!
I do have to say, though, that Rose (if you're following canon in this respect, anyway), is not a 'drop-out'. She left school with GCSEs. which is officially the school-leaving qualification, though kids can leave school in the April after their 16th birthday whether or not they've taken state exams. A-levels, generally taken at 18, are not mandatory - and in fact they're not even a suitable qualification for many young people. They're academically-oriented, designed mostly for people who intend to go to university.
Many kids leave school with GCSEs and at that point they get a job, or they go to further education college for vocational training (apprenticeships or other qualifications). Personally, I wish more young people in the UK would stay in full-time education of any type past sixteen, but the education system as it is allows for people to leave at 16 and do whatever they want. 'High school drop-out' is very much US terminology and a US concept.
While I'm here, I have vaguely worked out, through hearing it mentioned in commercials, what a 'bucket list' is, but it's not an expression I had ever heard in the UK, so I doubt Mickey would know it. The best equivalent I can think of is probably 'wish list'.
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Consider the wish list bit deleted and the above exchange edited to:
“The job in the shop’s the best I got,” she says.
“Why?”
She goes quiet. Shrugs, her shoulders up against his leg. “Not qualified for much else.”
He types on.
“Was there something you were getting at?”
“Well, what do you want?” he asks.
“What?”
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And, believe me, the English (not British, as the Scottish system is entirely different again) education system does take some understanding. It took me years, after I moved to England to work in the university system to get my head around it!
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