She could enrol today to get more GCSE's if she wanted, she could have done resits in college a year after 'failing' hers. She chose not to. She's too lazy.
She could enrol today to get more GCSE's if she wanted, she could have done resits in college a year after 'failing' hers. She chose not to. She's too lazy.If you fail your GCSEs you can still go to college. Some students do much better there. I’m sure I remember some people doing GCSEs alongside A Levels.
There are other paths to doing degrees etc as well and other qualifications . Or is this another backhanded complaint about her parents not letting her stay on.
That's where the 4.5 comes from, she sat seven exams, probably the basic core subjects (English, maths etc) but only passed 4 and and a half of them.Is it also that she doesn’t count her non A-C grades as GCSEs? I went through a shit time age 15-16 and got pretty awful GCSEs. I’ve definitely been told before that I only have 3 GCSEs and all my D-Fs don’t count
Yep, I did this and I’m the same age as Jack. They let me do A levels in English and Film/Media as I passed my English GCSEs and I had to resit maths GCSE. Most places you could study A levels you can also resit the core GCSE subjects. In theory just getting crap GCSEs shouldn’t have been a barrier to her going to college.If you fail your GCSEs you can still go to college. Some students do much better there. I’m sure I remember some people doing GCSEs alongside A Levels.
There are other paths to doing degrees etc as well and other qualifications . Or is this another backhanded complaint about her parents not letting her stay on.
Send cashos, I work 500 hour weeks on top of literally holding up the world like Atlas. I'm exhausted, let me breath, burp and fart in peace.Just ordered this! Thanks for all you do, HuvvyT
Yeah exactly, I don’t think she actually only sat 4.5. Probably sat the whole requirement, just didn’t get the results.That's where the 4.5 comes from, she sat seven exams, probably the basic core subjects (English, maths etc) but only passed 4 and and a half of them.
Really informative post, thank you for putting it together. It makes sense once you see the dates altogether. I honestly thought she would be deploying Laurie mate several times a day but it appears the novelty has worn off. Cooper has been missing for a while in pics unless that is him under the dog.For those who think the dog isn't hers due to timing of photos - she has had the dog a month, and posted photos/videos on the following days:
21/6 (Tue)
22/6 (Wed)
23/6 (Thu)
30/6 (Thu)
3/7 (Sun)
5/7 (Tue)
14/7 (Thu)
17/7 (Sun)
21/7 (Thu)
There has been a grand total of ONE video involving both SB and the dog, the ball-throwing on the very first day. There have been no photos of the two together.
In the "Jack bought a dog" column, we have:
* Jack's longterm habit of irresponsibility in acquiring pets at inappropriate times (eg two kittens mid-Poverty, the disabled kitten while in the throes of a post-LJC breakdown)
* Jack's longterm habit of ignoring pets once they are part of her household
* Jack's track record of acquiring pets that are purely Jack's, and have little/nothing to do with SB (most notably the disabled kitten)
* photo of a very young puppy on public transport, indicative of a) incredible irresponsibility and b) lack of car - Jack fits both criteria
* dog's stupid name, unlikely to have been chosen by a child or indeed anyone normal
* Spaniel Friend, who knows Jack IRL, leaving comments that indicate Jack is the dog's owner
* Jack constantly sharing dog tag phone number on Twitter. If the phone number belonged to another person, they would be furious
* SB's father is known to breed cats, suggesting that it's less likely he would buy a large puppy
To add, for anyone who believes Jack bought the dog for SB, remember Jack's renowned selfishness - does anyone honestly think a woman who gives her son a pre-nibbled biscuit as a treat would buy him a puppy?
As far as I can see, any belief that the dog doesn't belong to Jack is purely wishful thinking with nothing to back it up. This is a woman who left her rabbit in a shed and locked an extremely sick kitten in the bathroom at night, do people honestly think she'd hesitate before shutting the dog in a confined space and heading out to get her hair braided?
Clearly the school's decision was the right one, seeing as seven were too much for her.You could well be right. The original claim of 7 GCSEs appeared in Xanthe Clay's 2013 piece: https://web.archive.org/web/2013030...773/My-49p-lunch-with-a-girl-called-Jack.html Although admittedly not a direct quote.
In Potatoes, one of her lengthy asides aimed at Tattle claimed:
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TBH I can see that this is the kind of lie that would spiral. Initially she said she had 7 GCSEs, which is unremarkable, but back in 2013, she was presenting herself as a middle class woman fallen on hard times. Later, when she was claiming to be from a lifelong working class background, the number of GCSEs dropped...
She has had a lot of media and awards appearances and probably taken quadruple the amount of selfies. She's also got some balls to lie in public on TV in newspapers etc, knowing these lies can be exposed. That is not the behaviour of a shy person.
This reminds me of a Bill Bailey show Bewilderness where he says ' Jean Michel Jarre is a fraud' in a synth voice. I would pay good money to see him say 'Jack Monroe is a fraud' in a synth voice with an angelic choir in the background.
Frankly my dear ninny, that is entirely possible. Don't ask me how I know.Has anyone ever walked into a doctors and said they couldn’t cope with T-junctions.
She forgot to add ‘I literally can’t lie’ to that list.
Whilst it pains me terribly to defend JM in any way whatsoever, the girls selective schools around here are actually called Southend/Chelmsford/Colchester High School for Girls and usually referred to as 'the High School' to differentiate from the boys grammars.6) High school? She went to a grammar school for secondary, no one calls grammar schools high schools because they’re not.
I’ve always taken it to be that the reason Jack had a not very close relationship with her parents (which I also genuinely believe has been the case) is entirely because of her and her attitude. Her parents sound like they could have tried, and pushed for a relationship but Jack was the type to create a rift of her own making and push them away, all the while feeling sorry for herself. To me this explains the seeming inconsistencies around that relationship. All the people that ask why didn’t she ask her parents for help, to me it adds up. She would stubbornly not tell them a thing and rather be the main character in her poverty drama. But of course, as per the Pulp song, it was never really that bad for her as she could call her dad and get bailed out anytimeI would add that I do believe Jack has had a poor relationship with her parents for a very long time (hence not moving back home during the Poverty, or going to them for support). The underlying causes will probably never be totally clear, but the way she writes about her teenage years - being "thrust into the cold world of minimum wage employment" - is strange.
It would have been extremely unusual for someone from Jack's background to leave home at 16, especially with no compelling reason (her reason was, er, going to work in a chip shop. Minimum wage for 16 yr olds at the time was 3£ an hour. How the fuck was she supporting herself?).
Given that her parents are foster carers, with experience with troubled children, it seems even less likely that they told her, "tough shit, failure! No second chances for you!"
This is ESPECIALLY true when you consider that Jack claims her parents knew about her alleged ED and would force brandy into her for breakfast.
There's probably a lot more to this chapter of Jack's life, hidden in the background. For whatever reason, she chose to give up on education and leave home, when in reality she surely had plenty of other options open.
(What I wouldn't give for an AMA with Jack's older brother...)
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