A teacher has been left in a tizzy after her dog munched his way through her students' summer homework. As students prepare for a new school year, one teacher has been desperately trying to piece their half-eaten homework back together to mark it.
Sharing her "disaster" picture on Reddit, the woman wrote: "When you're a teacher and your dog eats everyone's homework...". Finding the funny side to her situation, one user joked she will now have to give everybody an A grade.
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One user said: "Oh how the tables turn."
Another user added: "You should show this picture to your class. They'd enjoy it (as long as you give everyone good marks for it).
A third user said: "But the real question is - do the kids believe you or do they think you're making an excuse because you forgot to grade their homework?"
It comes after the UK's Year 11 students receive their GCSE results after spending almost two years learning from home during the Covid-19 lockdowns.
Last year, the proportion of GCSE entries awarded top grades surged to an all-time high after exams were cancelled for the second year in a row due to Covid-19 and pupils were given results determined by their teachers.
Similar to the pattern with A-level results, published last week, it had been expected that grades would drop below last year, but remain above those from 2019 as students returned to sitting exams for the first time in three years.
Figures published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ) - covering GCSE entries from students predominantly in England, Wales and Northern Ireland - showed top grades of 7/A have fallen from 28.9 per cent in 2021 to 26.3 per cent this year, a drop of 2.6 percentage points.
But this remains higher than the equivalent figure for 2019 of 20.8 per cent.
The proportion of entries receiving a 4/C - considered a pass - dropped from 77.1 per cent in 2021 to 73.2 per cent this year, a fall of 3.9 percentage points, but higher than 67.3 per cent in 2019.
Girls continued their lead over boys this year, with 30 per cent of entries achieving a 7/A, compared with 22.6 per cent for males.
The gap has closed slightly from 2021, when 33.4 per cent of female entries were awarded 7/A or above compared with 24.4 per cent for males, a lead of 9.0 percentage points.
Separate figures, published by exams regulator Ofqual, showed that 2,193 16-year-olds in England got grade 9 in all their subjects - including 13 students who did at least 12 GCSEs.
While traditional A*-G grades are used in Northern Ireland and Wales, in England these have been replaced in with a 9-1 system, where nine is the highest.
A 4 is broadly equivalent to a C grade, and a 7 is broadly equivalent to an A.
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