Where will you send your children?

[AQ]

ım goıng to send my kıds to tafe..

ı thınk ıts a great ıdea. though my gırlfrıend doesnt want to have kıds wıth me....

[Odette.]

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Not to mention the entrance exams and costs it takes to get any child into those selective-entry schools. I guess people who care about their education will excel, irregardless of which selective or public school they attend.

I don't believe the fees at select entry schools are expensive, after all, they are still state schools.

But the latter is true, people who care about their education do excel. However, I must say that their potential often isn't reached, I know far too many people who would have performed much much better had they been in a more competitive environment.

I totally agree! If I were in a more competitive environment I would have pushed myself a little more... Oh well too late now... although I think now at VU it's not so competitive either, but at uni it's a whole new ball game

[mtwtfss]

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Not to mention the entrance exams and costs it takes to get any child into those selective-entry schools. I guess people who care about their education will excel, irregardless of which selective or public school they attend.

MHS = Free

They do ask for you to pay for fees (around the 2k mark), but they can't force you, it's a public school.

They also receive millions of dollars in donations from old boys which allow them to keep up with and often surpass private school standards.

The whole idea of MHS is that money doesn't and shouldn't buy education, everyone should have access to resources to excel etc.

It's probably a 40-60 split between students who come from public-private educations previously.

Plenty of kids at MHS don't care about VCE, they were good enough to get into the school, and should be allowed to stay as MHS and school is about 'more than just marks', and this view is shared by all people with a link to the school (apart from Asian parents?)

And as Mao said, so many kids don't live up to their potential and some clearly exceed how intelligent they really are with their ENTERs. For example plenty of students at MHS score say 90, if they were at your standard high school they would score say a 80, happens heaps. The environment is such, that it produces high scores consistently.

[Odette.]

I wonder what some of us would have gotten if we went to either MHS or Mac Rob

I have made my decision!

Primary-Public/Catholic school
Secondary- A selective school (Year 7 and 8, possibly send them to a private school, and if for some reason my children don't get into the selective school, I'll let them continue at the private school)

[bubble sunglasses]

most likely send them/him/her to Switzerland and attend  Le Rosey, Château de Rosey in Rolle. google it if you don't know what it is.

 OMG I was just thinking of that particular school

LOL  sadly it's a dream that won't come true. Unless i'm making 10,000,000 a year.

 I'd still envy your children if they went here
  http://www.giggleswickschool.co.uk/

[marbs]

For a guy = Definately Skeves or Xavier

For a girl = Loretto or Lauriston

[Noblesse]

most likely send them/him/her to Switzerland and attend  Le Rosey, Château de Rosey in Rolle. google it if you don't know what it is.

 OMG I was just thinking of that particular school

LOL  sadly it's a dream that won't come true. Unless i'm making 10,000,000 a year.

 I'd still envy your children if they went here
  http://www.giggleswickschool.co.uk/

Giggleswick FTW! That is an awesome name!

[hard]

hrmm i wanna send my boy to maybe cragieburn secondary and my daughter to broadmeadows community centre, then hopefully tell em to drop out and live on the doll so i can buy some VB>

[AppleXY]

I prefer an environment where scoring 67% means your the joke of the class, rather than an environment where scoring 98% means you are the ostracized nerd of the class.

Yup, that really sucks. I got 100% for my first spec SAC (I seriously do not what happened down the track to receive the study score that I got) and ye was portrayed as NERDZ.

But it feels good for some reason being the nerd, lol i dnno.

[brendan]

hrmm i wanna send my boy to maybe cragieburn secondary and my daughter to broadmeadows community centre, then hopefully tell em to drop out and live on the doll so i can buy some VB>

hahaha maybe throw in a few teenage pregnancies too

[hard]

hrmm i wanna send my boy to maybe cragieburn secondary and my daughter to broadmeadows community centre, then hopefully tell em to drop out and live on the doll so i can buy some VB>

hahaha maybe throw in a few teenage pregnancies too

that's a guaranteed part of the package, heck i can buy some crown largar with that money! 1 year money back if they don't get pregnant in their first year of high school.

[CBYS]

Public school all the way. I was always public schooled, both here and in Malaysia, and i have a steadfast belief that the quality of teachers and schools, while important, is secondary to the determination of the student to get what he/she wants out of life.

[wombifat]

to a co-ed school, probably a public school and hopefully nothing religious 

[24lover]

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Not to mention the entrance exams and costs it takes to get any child into those selective-entry schools. I guess people who care about their education will excel, irregardless of which selective or public school they attend.

MHS = Free

They do ask for you to pay for fees (around the 2k mark), but they can't force you, it's a public school.

They also receive millions of dollars in donations from old boys which allow them to keep up with and often surpass private school standards.

The whole idea of MHS is that money doesn't and shouldn't buy education, everyone should have access to resources to excel etc.

It's probably a 40-60 split between students who come from public-private educations previously.

Plenty of kids at MHS don't care about VCE, they were good enough to get into the school, and should be allowed to stay as MHS and school is about 'more than just marks', and this view is shared by all people with a link to the school (apart from Asian parents?)

And as Mao said, so many kids don't live up to their potential and some clearly exceed how intelligent they really are with their ENTERs. For example plenty of students at MHS score say 90, if they were at your standard high school they would score say a 80, happens heaps. The environment is such, that it produces high scores consistently.

i've had very good friends who've went to school at mhs. some who don't bother so much with their studies and some who care a lot - but all found that they liked having a competitive atmosphere around them. I've also heard that quite a few of them find uni a big let down because the environment can be much more laid back (with the exceptions of med and such......lol)

[wombifat]

MHS seems a bit depressing to me.  It seems like a lot of students there struggle with all the pressure put on them.