Report- English children may fail exams deliberately due to gang culture.

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Gang culture in the north east of England means teenagers deliberately fail exams to stay cool, a study says..

Any truth in this? Does it happen all over uk or other countries?

School Tribes:

charvers - fake designer gear, school is uncool
radgys - aggressive, liable to be excluded
divvies - hangers-on to charvers
goths - wear dark clothes
freaks - hard-working, considered normal by school

― Teach me, Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I know there's teachers on ILX so i'd love to read their opinions on this.

Also why do the media concentrate on youth 'tribes' so much? Read an awful lot about this in the past few years since a goth schoolgirl killed herself after being bullied. And other stories about school bullies. Is this a bigger problem now than in the mods vs rockers days or punk?

― Teach me, Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Stereotypes are a bad thing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 18 September 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

John McWhorter to thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 18 September 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there has been an element of this in schools for a long time. Kids who thought like this were definitely in the minority at my school, but they were there. I think the difference is that it is now being reported in the press as news - I can't imagine that there would be a list of slang terms like that in the papers when I was growing up in the eighties.

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

There were only two distinguishable groups at my school - those who listened to indie/metal/rock/whatever and those who listened to trance/jungle/rnb/pop/whatever.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Which failed more exams?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)

No-one who didn't define their life by their taste in music then? Or did you just not notice them?

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― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, invisible.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 September 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

did you act as the bridge between the two groups?

― MarkH (MarkH), Sunday, 19 September 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

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