English had always been my favourite subject at school, but the stifling lack of book choice and boring analysis in the English GSCE has killed it for me
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English was always my favourite subject. Note the past tense in that first line. The days of enjoying an English lesson are a distant memory for most GCSE students, myself included.
Growing up, I knew my route. In year three, it didn’t matter that my abilities of division had much to be desired, because teachers would brush it off, saying it didn’t matter, “because Orli can write stories.” It didn’t matter in year five, when I couldn’t get my head round the fact that there could only be one answer for the equation of photosynthesis. I was used to stories, where there was always another route, another answer, always another means to express my creativity.
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