my 16 year old son wants a career in sport, but got bad gcse results (2c's 6d,s) what are his options?

Question

not thick just lazy loves all sports

Answer 1

A minimum of 4 GCSEs gradesD/E (or equivalent) are the usual academic entry requirements to BTEC First Diploma in Sport (1 year full time).
I suggest you contact your local college to find out if they offer this course and what their precise requirements are.
Anyone wanting a career in sport will need academic qualifications - unless of course they are vastly talented in a particular sport.
You and your son should find out what sort of job oportunities there are (especially locally) with the qualifications he could realistically achieve. He might not be so keen.

Answer 2

Point out that career success in sports is as rare as being struck by lightening. The playing life of an athlete is short and then a 2nd career is necessary. Many sport figures have backgrounds in business, communications, or law so that they have a back-up plan for when they are retired or injured. Hard to believe, but we don't stay young and healthy forever—at some point we have to rely more on our minds and education.

Answer 3

He has a couple of options from how I see it. He could apply to a local sports centre as a volunteer and then when he has the experience he could do a course specific to what he wants to do. You don't need GCSE's to be a footballer/rugby player so if he is talented that way, bring him to the attention of the local team and see how he gets on but he'd have to stop being lazy as their schedules are not for the faint hearted!

Answer 4

I would tell him to ask his girlfriend to get circumcised, and see what her response would be. These females who have a prejudice about the normal and natural penis are parroting phrases they heard from their mothers and grandmothers about the supposed "benefits" and the idiotic propaganda about circumcision. Enlightened and educated people know that circumcision is mutilation, whether done to males or females. Most of the males in the world are not circumcised, and they function very well, and aren't dropping from the dreaded diseases supposedly prevented by circumcision. Have your son look at a video or two of infant circumcisions on the internet (there are a lot of them), and also the site CIRCUMSTITIONS to learn about the adverse effects and complications that result from male genital mutilation. But if he's still determined, well it's his penis, not yours. At least you left him intact to make the choice for himself. If he decides to get circumcised, then it's his problem. You did the right thing by leaving him intact so that he could decide for himself. You're blameless in the matter. He will learn the hard way, if he gets circumcised, that natural and normal and whole is better than partial, mutilated and scarred. Circumcision is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on the male sex. A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright. ERIC

Answer 5

He has a number of options.
Personally I would resit my G.C.S.Es at college, it only takes a year. Sports will include other subjects than P.E, such as Biology. So I would improve my grade in that.
He could also take a foundation course in physical education or sports at college. It will probably be the same sort of stuff as in G.C.S.E.
He's going to have to motivate himself, a lot of my friends are doing sports in college and uni and it's not just playing sports all the time, you have to do bits of biology and things to as well as coursework.

Answer 6

His problem is his parent(s). They want to be his best friend(s), not his parent(s). He could not have gotten to the point of laziness and lack of interest in learning were it not for the parents. He is a victim of poor educational parenting. You can start by apologizing and then telling your lazy kid that he cannot "play" until he gets priorities straight. Almost no kid gets a career in sports and those that do screw it up because they didn't give a rats tail about education. And, neither did their parents. The parents see $$$ and they actually watch as Jr. self destructs. The parents - usually the father - failed to get that big contract with the Eagles and so he is living his life through his poor son.
I am struck that a parent could say their kid is "lazy" with such ease as you do above. Do you not understand that being lazy is being slothful, one of the ten deadly sins? If the kid is lazy, the parents are lazier. Geeez

Answer 7

Some of the Local College's do Courses that are Sports related, and I think they include the Option of retaking some GCSEs and doing additional GCSEs.

Speak to the nearest college to you, and see what they can offer.

Answer 8

you should convince him to study. really 2c's and 6d's is terrible!

seriously though get him a tutor or something and get him to
re-sit the exams, and if he does well he could sign up for a professional course in the sport of his choice.

Answer 9

He should re-take them and spend another year in school. His results were horrible and show a complete lack of effort on his part. My only D was in French, and I did not do a single bit of study. Your son needs to understand that if he wants any kind of career in anything he is going to need to get at least 5 C or better.

Answer 10

get on a college course to do with sports most colleges do them, you should be fine. Teachers tell students these days that if you get bad grades its the end of the world, i know people tht have got into uni with grades that didnt meet the criteria. Pick up a college brochure, go through it with your son and then phone up the college and find out!