Expensive private schools

[appianway]

Not at all. I was just really inquisitive, and liked to read about a variety of concepts. Unfortunately the aforementioned teacher almost destroyed my fascination in science.

And the general consensus among all of the students was that the English teacher was terrible. She was quite hypocritical - our class would churn through pages of grammar exercises, but her emails would be riddled with non-standard punctuation, orthography and sytax, to put it nicely...

You were allowed to do Quantum Physics in year 7, EZ? I'm. So. Envious.

[EvangelionZeta]

Not at all. I was just really inquisitive, and liked to read about a variety of concepts. Unfortunately the aforementioned teacher almost destroyed my fascination in science.

And the general consensus among all of the students was that the English teacher was terrible. She was quite hypocritical - our class would churn through pages of grammar exercises, but her emails would be riddled with non-standard punctuation, orthography and sytax, to put it nicely...

You were allowed to do Quantum Physics in year 7, EZ? I'm. So. Envious.

Ah.  Therein lies the problem - you can't really attack a certain type of institution based on one bad teacher; no matter where you go you'll always find ones who just don't "click" with you, I think.

And to be fair, I never bothered with it beyond the introductory lesson - real science has never been of much interest to me, only the stuff found in fiction.  I know more about the difference between Minovsky Fission and Nuclear Fusion drives in Gundams than whatever in Biology.  :p

[appianway]

The two mentioned teachers mirrored the ethos of the school, although I should probably mention that I had a better teacher for year 8 science.

But different schools ultimately suit different people. My sister goes to my old school, and refused to sit for Mac.Rob in year 8.

[qshyrn]

It would be rather amusing if you were Peter Collins, but I'm inclined to think you're not. 

Heh that it would

What was your part in Summer Heights High EvangelionZeta? I'm gonna watch it now lol only asian I can remember is the kid who goes "he rang me up and copied my entire essay and handed it in to the teacher the next day", was that you?

Yeah, that's me.  The nasally tone in my voice and Asian tones have improved remarkably since.  (:

which episode were u in?

[ice_blockie]

Slightly off the topic flow but my cousin went to a private school that charged around $15000. It doesn't have much of a reputation but ranks in the top 15 private schools every year. Anyway joke was that $10000 of everyone's school fees went to the photocopier room. They had 3 or 4? industrial photocopiers that were each the size of a small car and the Xerox truck would come every 2 weeks or so and deliver probably a forest of paper boxes. For VCE exam prep, the school (unlike stingy MHS) printed off practice exams full size so every kid had one of the xerox boxes to take home happily.

[EvangelionZeta]

@ qshryn, episode 1.  I'd prefer it if the SHH questions were pm'd hereon so as not to disrupt the topic's flow.

[shinny]

Slightly off the topic flow but my cousin went to a private school that charged around $15000. It doesn't have much of a reputation but ranks in the top 15 private schools every year. Anyway joke was that $10000 of everyone's school fees went to the photocopier room. They had 3 or 4? industrial photocopiers that were each the size of a small car and the Xerox truck would come every 2 weeks or so and deliver probably a forest of paper boxes. For VCE exam prep, the school (unlike stingy MHS) printed off practice exams full size so every kid had one of the xerox boxes to take home happily.

I know other private schools just don't photocopy to begin with; my friend at Xavier got a folder of like 20 real copy exams straight from the companies.

[GerrySly]

I know other private schools just don't photocopy to begin with; my friend at Xavier got a folder of like 20 real copy exams straight from the companies.

That's what we got, though we only got 4 exams. Much better than photocopied exams to be honest, feel soooo much better

[kendraaaaa]

For chem the only thing I got in hardcopy was the 08 vcaa exam =.=

[appianway]

We have so many photocopies for English Language. Although they're not past papers as such, but rather, notes.

[IntoTheNewWorld]

wtf MHS even tried to charge to access Chem exams on the intranet. Needless to say, that didn't last long. But even now, I think some exams aren't photocopied for you when you pay for the chem pack (thank you VN), you just get access to them in the library (these themselves are photocopies) and have to photocopy them yourself.

Stingy bastards.

[ninwa]

My school gave us CDs with tonnes of practice exams on them and told us to "print them ourselves at home to save paper."

Yes because the paper we have at home doesn't come from trees, they come from magic mountain fairies ...

[Trent]

I myself go to a private school and can honestly say it is worth the money. The students that have come from public schools say the environment for learning is far superior, as suceeding at school is not seen as 'nerdy', whereas at their old school it was. Despite the better facilities, extra-cirricula activies and all that, I think this is one of the main things, you are actively encouraged to reach your full potential, whereas, from what I have heard, in public schools this is not always the case. To add to this point, a friend of mine goes to a public school and got given 1 practice psychology paper from their school, whereas my school gave us 16. I am speaking purely from what former public school students have told me, as I have never attended a public school. This is just what I hear.

[ngRISING]

To add to this point, a friend of mine goes to a public school and got given 1 practice psychology paper from their school, whereas my school gave us 16. I am speaking purely from what former public school students have told me, as I have never attended a public school. This is just what I hear.

right, i go to a public school and i have been given 10psychology practice exams, and we are starting full revision practice exams this week meaning more to come. point still proven? what you hear is different from what you experience, thus don't use what you hear as a point.

[kendraaaaa]

I wish I had gone to a private school, if the only thing we are discussing here is the quality of education. I go to revision lectures and the majority of lecturers are from elite schools, the quality of information that is delivered at (most) of these lectures is far ahead of what I get in class. Kids with access to teachers of such a high calibre, I believe, have a much higher chance of succeeding in their exams.