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Soapbox: one point gained, two more squandered
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Pete Sixsmith is clearly dreaming already of the handy cheque he gets each summer for marking a mountain of exam papers; it helps feed his Sunderland and Durham County Cricket Club habits. No problems at the Riverside – our Riverside, not the home of Boro – but he still cannot say in which division will he be getting his SAFC fix next season …
At this time of year, secondary schools are full of 16-year-olds realising that they had better get some work done as their final exams loom.
Most of them have good intentions and want to succeed and at the end of the day they will get the passes they need to embark on that sticky and uncomfortable period that we call adult life. Some will not, and will have to start all over again
