Whatever, there's zero point in stressing about it - if you can hit up a useful contact for something fun she'll enjoy, do that. If not, just let the school find her something a bit lame and boring, which is probably a better insight to the world of work than any week doing something exciting and interesting she cares about will ever be.
Work experience for a 14 year old?
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I reckon I will be tempted to leave it entirely up to the child to sort out and not get involved at all (except to answer specific questions)... the "arranging it" side will prob be a far more useful experience than what they actually do during the week. Giving them total ownership over what happens. Then you can't get blamed if it is dull/shit. And also don't have to do anything.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I will be doing this . The guidance as been pretty weak, but I imagine they will be as lost as I am to a large extent. It's not the school who make the kids do it or lay out the guidelines. There also only appears to be one person appointed to handling the whole thing. I assume for budgetary constraints.
I really am a bit lost. My daughter does need to be putting out a couple more feelers first though (She is supposed to be doing this on her own) then I can at least say what she has tried to do, so that I can ask what to do next. Everybody I know works at home or in inappropriate jobs (or both), and I don't want her traveling.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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She is stuck. She has tried a few places. We have been asked to help them where we can. If I wasn't also a bit stuck I wouldn't have started this thread. I'm not sure what to expect her to come up with if I can't easily come up with anything either.
However, having said that, I would like her to take some of the responsibility for at least worrying about it.
equationgirl
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What happens if she doesn't do it, out of interest ATOMIC SUPLEX ?
Gerry1time
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Sort of what I was going to ask. My school wanted proof my work experience (at the end of year 11) was arranged, but as it happened in the last week of term before the summer holidays, they never asked for any proof that it was completed. I used an initial tentative letter of acceptance in principle from a trout fishery as my proof of having something arranged, and then never contacted them again or turned up for it at all. Might not be an option, but just a thought. Personally I'd see being able to blag having done something when you actually haven't done it as an important workplace skill to learn.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I was asked by the school and by my daughter to help. She has made an effort, been rejected and is worried that she's not going to have anything to turn in by the end of January. The worst that can happen as I know it is that I don't help out and leave my daughter alone to figure it out by herself when she is worried and nervous about the outcome. I don't really want to do that, it doesn't seem like a very nice dad thing to do.
In reality I doubt anything more earth shattering will happen to her than a slap on wrist and getting a back up placements arranged by the school (not that they have said they have any) which may be terrible/a long distance/ something I am not happy with her doing during covid. . . .
