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What Type of School do you Go to?

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Ionic Doc:
I go to a  Catholic School, where school uniform and religion is taken more seriously than our grades  :P


Edit: One of the best things about my school is student-teacher ratio. In particular this year I have fairly small methods and English class which is great!
This is also one of the reasons I chose to reject my offer from EBS, as I found that there is 1 teacher and about 80~ students in one lecture hall at EBS, where as at my school I have around 12 ~ 15 students in one class.

aziz:
some public school in the northern suburbs
pretty sure its ranked around 470~ out of 500 victorian schools that do vce
i think median ss is 22

Nexica:
A public government school.

Geoo:
Same with milander, I have had experience in three types of schools.

Government:
This was where I got most of my education from prep to year 9. As said above, the academic environment is quite lack luster and wasn't very great.... I struggled as I was a high achiever, so I was made fun of alot for that along with people getting frustrated at me when they didn't get a higher mark. Really weird.. I also found it harder in class because of all the noise and disruption! Many kids were rude to the teacher, very loud, doing stuff that could damage property or hurt students. So for the 70 minute periods, the only teaching that went on happened for about 15 minutes with the rest of the time waiting for the class to settle down. This was in the inner eastern suburbs.

Christian
I was only there for a semester but it was generally a great school. Not only did they accept that I'm an atheist, but they also made many accommodations for me. The teachers were great, and the facilities were really nice and up to date. The only downside was some of the kids. They could be quite rude and flat out ignore you. Not all of course, with some people being really nice and friendly, but there were just some that could be really mean. I found that there was less disruption in the classroom so it made it an easier environment to learn in. This did not mean that it was really that high achieving, but it was just a better environment for learning if you wanted it. They had more extracurricular and alot of interesting excursions that the government schools just didn't have.

DECV
I have a love hate relationship with distance ed. Sometimes it was really good other times, not so much. You are really held accountable for yourself to make sure you have your work in on time, and that you actively seek out help if you want it, otherwise you are not going to get any. No matter what kind of teacher you have this is always the case. Some teachers are really helpful when you seek them out, others don't respond for weeks or barely give you any help. Same goes with feedback, it is a very mixed bag depending on the teachers. Physics, methods and food studies had barely ANY feedback what so ever, where as chemistry, biology and english had great feedback. There is also a matter of how it is taught. Sometimes the courses are awful (like physics), with unhelpful videos, confusing descriptions of theories, and formulas given with no explanation for their use. Other times the courses are really in depth and have great graphics and worded content to explain stuff. This makes it kind of unreliable..  DECV really isn't academic as well, most people in the classes are either, an athlete, model, actress/dance, have a medical problem, are too rural so they can't access a school, mental health issue, or like most people on the forms doing a subject not offered at their normal school. However, it suits me very well in terms of my circumstances, and it allows me ALOT of flexibility.

Private > DECV > Public


--- Quote ---This year I did 1/2 specialist maths and 1/2 physics through DECV (as my school offers neither) and did not have the best experience.
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I did 1/2  physics this year as well via distance, and I would have to agree that it was one of the worse experiences I have ever had....

ashmi:

--- Quote from: Nexica on December 15, 2019, 11:15:44 pm ---A public government school.

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Same over here!
Pretty much have gone to a public government school my whole life (I'm at an all-girls school which has a completely different feel in terms of learning).

In my classes, they are very calm and we all sort of work together as a team to do our best. Most of the people in my classes want to bring out the best in themselves so our class-time goes down pretty efficiently. It is rare for a commotion to occur in class and if there is one, it would last about 5 min max. (Has only happened a few times out of all my classes this year. There is a lot of funny random events every once in a while though)
We all help each other out and sort of work like gears in a machine if that makes sense? (Especially my Physics class)
We have 75 minute periods and for pretty much the whole period (except the question of the day when we get our roll marked to become more familiar with our classmates) we work for the full 65-70 minutes ;D

Pretty much we all really want the high marks and are quite behaved during school. :D

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