THE QUESTION
Why do school leavers not find work here?
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The staff who care most burn out fastest
We lost the workshops in the last building refurbishment
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
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Breakfast decides more of the morning than the lesson plan
Nobody has mapped what the local employers actually need
The one local employer who took students stopped after a bad experience
The good jobs are advertised through people who already work there
The college is in the next town and the last bus is at six
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Employers cannot take a fourteen-year-old for insurance reasons
No teacher here has worked outside a school
Attendance is the problem behind most of the others
Meaning the recurring case, not one incident.
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The bus to the college costs four pounds a day
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.
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Nobody in the family has been to a university open day
A placement week is arranged by whoever knows someone
Success is a pupil who leaves, and everyone knows it
Scope: here specifically, not everywhere.
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A teacher is measured on results, not on what happens after
A pupil who would thrive in a workshop is pushed to university
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A part-time job pays now and a course pays in four years
We prepare pupils for a labour market nobody has described
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
We have no idea where last year's leavers went
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Poverty looks like poor behaviour from the front of a classroom
Parents who were failed by school do not trust it
Everything not examined gets dropped by February
Employers want three years' experience for an entry job
A child who misses Year 9 never catches up in Year 11
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The council's skills plan was written for industries that closed
Observed, not measured — I would want the data too.
The league table rewards the exam, not the life
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
The jobs here do not need what school taught
Half the absence is caring for someone at home
To be precise: this is about the situation, not a person.
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The technical route is described to parents as the fallback
Careers advice is one afternoon in the final year
Nobody in a position to hire ever visits a classroom
Young people leave and do not come back
Narrower than it reads; the wider version is someone else's card.
Nobody teaches how to be interviewed
Writing a CV is taught by someone who has never read one professionally
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The apprenticeship application closes before the exam results
There are eleven apprenticeships in this town and four hundred leavers
I mean this happens weekly, not once in a while.