I'm not going to quote that post as it's a bit long, but I'd just like to pick up on the point regarding the girls disrupting your lessons...

I have friends who are my age that are (or were) in mainstream education opposed to private education. In the lower years of our school life, they couldn't understand why I had so much work to do for school and why I didn't have time to go out with them on an evening or weekend. The teachers at my school put students under a lot of pressure to do well, and it wasn't long before I realised that I had to put in a lot of effort to my school work in exchange for good grades at the end of the process. Sadly, as mainstream education doesn't have the same direct teacher to pupil communication as private education does, some of my friends took quite a long time to realise that, if you want to go somewhere decent in life, there's a good chance you're going to need good grades, and to get those good grades, you need to put the effort in.

At GCSE level, I'd suggest that most begin to realise that what they achieve in school stands a good chance of impacting on their whole life. My friends in mainstream education started to knuckle down in Year 10 and get some work done. They were learning things in Year 10 that I covered and understood at the start of Year 9, meaning that I was at an instant advantage over them. I had spare time in Year 10, but they didn't, as they had too much work to do if they wanted to cover the entire syllabus in time for their exams at the end of Year 11.

A lot of my friends didn't do as well as they had hoped originally, and they had to face the disappointment on Results Day after the exams in August. Some of my friends did very well indeed - some received a few more A*s than I did! The ones who did well are the ones who put the effort in. If the girls in your year group care for what their future prospects are in life, they'll knuckle down next year. Failing, or getting low grades in exams, is not a good feeling. There's only one way you can do your best to avoid that happening. It's just a waiting game until next year, I'm afraid, Marcus. Just remember that if you keep working as best as you can, you'll be at an advantage over them when it comes to GCSEs, and you could be driving a great car in a couple of years time while they're waiting in the dole queue with their three kids.