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What would your dream school be if, money wasn't a problem, you lived wherever you wanted, and had the intelligence to get into any selective school?
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TAFE but my Asian parents would cut my dick off, feed it to our neighbour's dog, cut the dog's dick off and after marinating it in honey soy sauce, make me eat it if I wanted to go to TAFE instead of university.
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Probs geelong grammar and live on campus.
Went there once and it looked amazing and not to far out from all the good beaches down there :)
What about you friedbacon?
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Scotch College or Geelong Grammar - went on a footy camp @ grammar and the facilities were amazing
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Scotch College or Geelong Grammar - went on a footy camp @ grammar and the facilities were amazing
Aye you went to my school!!!!
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I'm not sure. If I was to make a decision it would most likely be based on misconceptions.
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Narre Warren South P-12 College.
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Aye you went to my school!!!
Yes, the god did
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Probs geelong grammar and live on campus.
Went there once and it looked amazing and not to far out from all the good beaches down there :)
What about you friedbacon?
Boys school: Scotch college or Melbourne High
Co-Ed: Wesley or one of the Geelong Private Schools
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Scotch College or Geelong Grammar - went on a footy camp @ grammar and the facilities were amazing
They do have great fields and a great new pool and gym. However I'd personally rather go to scotch purely due to location
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Boys school: Scotch college or Melbourne High
Co-Ed: Wesley, Carey or one of the Geelong Private Schools(boarding)
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They do have great fields and a great new pool and gym. However I'd personally rather go to scotch purely due to location
Yeah, that makes sense. I live 5 minutes away from Grammar so if it's in a pretty ideal location
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MHS.
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Yeah, that makes sense. I live 5 minutes away from Grammar so if it's in a pretty ideal location
yeah, and Geelong get average VCE marks... However they Offer IB (it is generally considered that the smarter kids do IB, which weakens VCE cohorts)
Medians:
Scotch:36
GGS:32
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yeah, and Geelong get average VCE marks... However they Offer IB (it is generally considered that the smarter kids do IB, which weakens VCE cohorts)
Medians:
Scotch:36
GGS:32
Even if i could go to scoth i would still go to geelong, would have loved to do IB
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yeah, and Geelong get average VCE marks... However they Offer IB (it is generally considered that the smarter kids do IB, which weakens VCE cohorts)
Medians:
Scotch:36
GGS:32
Then there's my school... 27 l0l
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Then there's my school... 27 l0l
hahah :)
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Even if i could go to scoth i would still go to geelong, would have loved to do IB
Personally I think IB is stupid, only really useful if you want to get into Oxford, Harvard or any top tier Universities.
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Then there's my school... 27 l0l
Mine was 24 least year, and 22 the year before ;)
But I don't mind... I don't actually think I'd change schools if give the chance. I'd like to think that going to my school has built up some resilience haha
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Mine was 24 least year, and 22 the year before ;)
But I don't mind... I don't actually think I'd change schools if give the chance. I'd like to think that going to my school has built up some resilience haha
I find my school's also on the up :p
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Dream School?
Melbourne High Co-ed
Quite a upgrade from Elwood. I like the idea though, and in fact Melbourne High started off Co-Ed. (random fact)
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MHS. MHS co education seems interesting.
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I'd like to think that going to my school has built up some resilience haha
The reason I wouldn't change my school. If I went to MHS from 2009, I can say with near-certainty I would have scored much higher. I also would be a ridiculously different person and not know my girlfriend or best friend.
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Scotch :D
Or any school that offers IB.
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I wouldn't change my current school. But I think doing IB would've been neat.
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I would of much preferred the opportunity to do IB rather than VCE, wouldn't really care which school.
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Any private school.
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i think choosing high schools depends alot on "fit" not just how awesome the campus is
when my old school got into financial trouble and was going to shut down and my parents seriously looked at geelong grammar but the students/teachers there didnt suit, idk, i didnt want to go boarding school, in the end i picked schs over mhs because i wanted to do chinese but decided to stay rather than leave/go for year 10 entry to mhs because i like the atmosphere here, the pretty chilled but serious attitude, but professional teachers, and soooooooooo many extra curricular activites and days off (LOL), and because its the foundation cohort we have so much freedom to start any clubs or anything we want and the academic freedom
tbh couldnt think of a better place (i do miss doing the IB MYP program though, IB is awesome)
just my 2 cents
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My dream school would definitely be SCOTCH, if I was a guy that is :P
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I think the title of this thread should be changed to "Dream School in Victoria", perhaps? Because Geelong isn't technically in Melbourne. Or maybe even "Dream School in Australia"?
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From a purely objective view, somewhere like Scotch, because of facilities and opportunity and whatnot.
To be honest, though, personally I find more and more that my dream school is the one I went to. If I had gone elsewhere, I wouldn't have met most of my friends, wouldn't have done the same kinds of things as I did, wouldn't have been exposed to the same social justice and cultural awareness programs that I participated in, and actually, I think I might not have scored as highly, even if I had gone to Scotch. I was really lucky to be at a school where I had a set of really great teachers who I could actually connect with, and I'm not certain that it would have been the same at another school like Scotch.
Also, there are already so many super smart people at Scotch and MHS, I would be pretty intimidated. :P
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From a purely objective view, somewhere like Scotch, because of facilities and opportunity and whatnot.
To be honest, though, personally I find more and more that my dream school is the one I went to. If I had gone elsewhere, I wouldn't have met most of my friends, wouldn't have done the same kinds of things as I did, wouldn't have been exposed to the same social justice and cultural awareness programs that I participated in, and actually, I think I might not have scored as highly, even if I had gone to Scotch. I was really lucky to be at a school where I had a set of really great teachers who I could actually connect with, and I'm not certain that it would have been the same at another school like Scotch.
Also, there are already so many super smart people at Scotch and MHS, I would be pretty intimidated. :P
haha St kevs is across the river from Scotch.. must be a bit of beef hehe
Scotch is weird though, the kids that I know go there are a weird mix, some smart kids, some disadvantaged kids, some 'lads', some sporty kids, I even know kids that have dropped out from there or are 'off the rails' and still attend.
Overall great school and environment, but it is slightly overrated from what I've heard from actual Scotch students.
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I think the title of this thread should be changed to "Dream School in Victoria", perhaps? Because Geelong isn't technically in Melbourne. Or maybe even "Dream School in Australia"?
I can change it, I didn't expect people to suggest Geelong schools.
Should we make it Australia or Victoria?
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Scotch :D
Or any school that offers IB.
Werribee Secondary College then? haha they offer IB, how unusual of a public school.
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Wangaratta high school. :p
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By the law of supply and demand, list schools in descending order of cost, and start reading from the top down.
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I don't think the education market is competitive with respect to supply and demand
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To be honest, my school :D couldn't honestly imagine being anywhere else. I am not ashamed to say I love school!
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If I could stand single-sex education, I would be honoured to go to either MHS, Scotch or Haileybury. The problem is that I'm enough of a socially awkward guy as it is, so if I went to a single-sex education school, I would end up incredibly shy and have no confidence whatsoever.
So I'm going to go with JMSS because it is in a great location (right next to a Go8 university), it has high standards and the teachers and students there seem really nice and friendly. Plus, I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I think I would've scored a lot higher at a top school like that, as opposed to the school I went to.
edit: Arrgh sorry! I hardly got any sleep last night and I accidentally wrote "co-ed" when I meant to say "single-sex education". Fixed now.
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Multiple people have said MHS is coed, did I miss a memo or something?
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If I could stand co-ed, I would be honoured to go to either MHS, Scotch or Haileybury. The problem is that I'm enough of a socially awkward guy as it is, so if I went to a co-ed school, I would end up incredibly shy and have no confidence whatsoever.
So I'm going to go with JMSS because it is in a great location (right next to a Go8 university), it has high standards and the teachers and students there seem really nice and friendly. Plus, I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I think I would've scored a lot higher at a top school like that, as opposed to the school I went to.
JMSS is coed :)
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If I could stand single-sex education, I would be honoured to go to either MHS, Scotch or Haileybury. The problem is that I'm enough of a socially awkward guy as it is, so if I went to a single-sex education school, I would end up incredibly shy and have no confidence whatsoever.
So I'm going to go with JMSS because it is in a great location (right next to a Go8 university), it has high standards and the teachers and students there seem really nice and friendly. Plus, I don't want to sound arrogant or anything, but I think I would've scored a lot higher at a top school like that, as opposed to the school I went to.
edit: Arrgh sorry! I hardly got any sleep last night and I accidentally wrote "co-ed" when I meant to say "single-sex education". Fixed now.
Isn't Haileybury co-ed?
edit: apparently not.
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Isn't Haileybury co-ed?
edit: apparently not.
The school overall is Co-ed, except in certain year levels such as year 11 and 12 classes are split into single sex classes.
IB is an exception, all IB classes are Co-Ed
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MHS for me, it really was more than just a school for many of us. The cohort was amazing, and the opportunities at MHS definitely aren't found in many schools across the whole of Australia. I think the school succeeds in not just academics, but also in shaping the moral values, leadership, and general "well-roundedness" of its students.
Multiple people have said MHS is coed, did I miss a memo or something?
They're saying it would be their dream school if it was co-ed. I kinda liked it being single-sex to be honest, having gone to a co-educational school before. You can talk to girls outside of school times anyway (staring at all the unicorns who wait for their girlfriends outside Mac.Rob), and there are heaps of social events where girls are invited (i.e MHS Socials, and the Year 12 formal).
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Definitely my school, Yavneh. It has a reputation for being a bit crap facilities-wise, but it is very high-achieving and has a really great, familial atmosphere. Also, co-ed! I probably wouldn't want to go to a single-sex school, regardless of how prestigious it is.
I attended my (former, now :( ) school for 15 years, Junior Kinder all the way through; I loved it, and I wouldn't have it any differently. There's just so much incredible tradition and history associated with Yavneh and the values it holds - plus it was the only school I've known to play the ceremonial, hallowed games of gravel-based Backboard Footy.
<3 Yavneh, I'd send my kids there in a heartbeat.
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Melbourne High ;D
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I want to pose a similar question to everyone, where would you send your hypothetical kids?
Personally for me: A local Public primary school, then the Local Public Highschool for years 7-8, then send them off to a APS school.
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I want to pose a similar question to everyone, where would you send your hypothetical kids?
Personally for me: A local Public primary school, then the Local Public Highschool for years 7-8, then send them off to a APS school.
As above, to my school from the start.
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I want to pose a similar question to everyone, where would you send your hypothetical kids?
Just like me: public primary school -> accelerated program for yr7-8 -> selective school (MHS and Mac.Rob preferably)
That's if they were academically inclined etc etc
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I would have been fine with public schooling all the way through. But it also depends on what my partner would want to do as well. I'm open to anything as long as its what's best for the child. I'm also not too familiar with Melbourne schools.
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Heh, was just discussing this today! I think that at some point though - probably year 9, or even year 7 - there comes a point at which I'd like my child to be able to make that decision for themselves. Of course, I'll advise and help them with anything, but I'd still want them to make (or at least have the opportunity to make) that decision for themselves.
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I agree with Polonius. I'd send them to the school closest to the house (maybe second closest, if the one closest to the house was horribly shit and there was another in the area with a 30+ median), and let them decide if they want to go to a selective school. Wouldn't send them to a private school.
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If I had a son, I'd really want him to go to Scotch (like me) - unless he doesn't want to. School culture is absolutely amazing; I'd argue it is partly what shaped who I am today, and it has been an amazing school with a brilliant teaching program and pastoral care.
If I had a daughter, probably PLC or another private school.
I'd get them to try out for scholarships (without taking away their childhood!) but even if they don't get them I'd send them there anyway.
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Haha - it's interesting, a lot of people in this thread want for their kids what they have had for themselves. Perhaps we're scared of our kids missing out on the experiences that have shaped us as people -- I noted to myself the other day a sort of demented thought I had about not minding if my kid got bullied because it taught me so many things etc. And then I was like "what the fuck, Brenden?"
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Haha - it's interesting, a lot of people in this thread want for their kids what they have had for themselves. Perhaps we're scared of our kids missing out on the experiences that have shaped us as people
I wouldn't necessarily agree with that. I would probably send them to whichever school is closest initially (public), and then to a selective school later on (provided they get in). Probably going to tangent off here a little bit, but I'd probably also make them try and work for what they want (not just saying school here), instead of just straight out giving it to them, so that they learn the value of hard work, not to say that I wouldn't help them along the way. Regarding tutors, I rather not get tutors for them unless they were really struggling, so that they become better independent learners.