Missed a few days on here but my god A Level results day pisses me off. It's always the absolute thickos posting about how you don't need the grades to be successful. Well yeah, but they fucking help! Successful people with no qualifications are the minority and often get there through sheer dumb luck, dumb being the operative word...
I want to encourage my kids to do their absolute best at school when they go - I don't want to put loads of pressure on them to do well but I definitely don't want to make out like their education isn't important. If they want to go off and do a job that doesn't require qualifications afterwards, that's fine, but at least I've done my bit as a parent by giving them the foundation to make that choice.