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UK schools don't hold students back

posted 10 years ago by lettyatuni
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How the hell has Grayson been 'held back five years' when no school in the UK does that? There's no such thing as twenty-odd year olds running around schools as students (not legally anyway.)

I know the show has never been realistic, but it's been hard enough to except that ''special K'' never have any other lesson than History and apparently no other teacher, without having to accept this now as well.

Plus, if Grayson is an adult then why is no one bothered about him making out with a 15/16 year old Michael in the Christmas Special? And why has no one referenced the fact that Grayson came out of the closet- why is this series all about Alfie and his boring girlfriend (again)?

[–] PrickWithAFork 10 years ago

I think you need to watch it again, this time armed with the knowledge that it is a comedy.

UK schools DO hold kids back, usually only for a year but, again, it's a comedy. An adult in a kids' class - funny, see?

I'm a Prick With a Fork.

[–] lettyatuni 10 years ago

Thank you for patronising me, but by that logic I could make up any old nonsense about any normal, factual part of reality and say, 'but durrrr stoopid, it's a comedy, see?'

[–] workingwithmeat 10 years ago

I was with you lettyatuni until about a year ago when I first met a now good friend of mine. I always thought that in the UK you couldn't get held back but this friend told me it happened to him in Year 7 and he re-did Year 7 at another school so was always one year older than his classmates.

I thought it very odd that Grayson's coming out was not referenced at all until the last episode.

[–] Bhoooop_Daahuut 10 years ago

It's only a show. It doesn't really matter, I don't think.

[–] connor23695 8 years ago

Can't they do it in primary schools?