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March 29, 2009 at 2:04 pm

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DaftFader

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TEK Tonic;316335 wrote:

Like Boothy says – one size does not fit all… but they are working on it! Despite how it often seems, the government really do try to make things work in schools, they just aren’t that good at it :you_crazy

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March 29, 2009 at 4:20 pm

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Shpongled

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TEK Tonic;316335 wrote:

Like Boothy says – one size does not fit all… but they are working on it! Despite how it often seems, the government really do try to make things work in schools, they just aren’t that good at it :you_crazy

I may be very wrong, but isn’t the only active thing they are doing to ‘improve’ schools is by turning them into academies?
March 29, 2009 at 6:51 pm

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GrassChopper

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Yeah paint a new name and hope it improves the school… Isn’t working me thinks :you_crazy
March 29, 2009 at 8:50 pm

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joshd96320

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to be honest, theres some awesome teachers at my school (deben). and theres some shit… im in all top sets and do try if im interested, and i dont have a hate for the teacher. i do well in physics, coz i like it, and our teacher gets us engaged! whereas biology, i cant stand. our teacher is too rigid and we do fuck all. I just like to get on through it as quick as i can. i aint gunna rebel coz its a waste of time for me.. not much time left. Id rather focus my time on things like improving the public image on freeparties =):bounce_fl

General Lighting;316315 wrote:

there is, particularly with todays stronger varieties of weed. They divert your attention span and desire to conform to social norms, which of course makes it difficult to accept the institutional régime you find in a high school.

looking back on my 6th form (yrs 12/13) days its a wonder I didn’t get excluded – I managed to scrape through my A-levels and just about get into uni, where I discovered class As and only stayed there 2 years (although to be fair I never wanted to be there in the first place).

however today there are hopefully better and wider options for young people and from what yourself and josh have said there appears to be a new generation of young people finally learning from others mistakes who are well set to show society that lifestyles such as raving aren’t as potentially destructive as people fear…

I agree with you there, i think there are more options available. And i also think that there is the same balance of people who have learned from others mistakes ie me, and people who are careless, as there has always been. I just hope those of my generation can have a bigger impact, make the peace/love and clean-up-after-yourself contagious, and then bam, the scene is already looking kinder!

/waffle
March 29, 2009 at 11:23 pm

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MisterDuck

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joshd96320;316429 wrote:

to be honest, theres some awesome teachers at my school (deben). and theres some shit… im in all top sets and do try if im interested, and i dont have a hate for the teacher. i do well in physics, coz i like it, and our teacher gets us engaged! whereas biology, i cant stand. our teacher is too rigid and we do fuck all. I just like to get on through it as quick as i can. i aint gunna rebel coz its a waste of time for me.. not much time left. Id rather focus my time on things like improving the public image on freeparties =):bounce_fl

i always had a huge problem with the reason WHY i should sit there and do something that i had no desire to do and often couldn’t do. i’ll credit myself as good at art/social sciences which is what i loved, but science/maths i genuinely couldnt comprehend and hated and i didnt like wasting my time and being told to do them – not because i hated learning, but beacuase i’d rather be double an extra lesson of history/english/media instead.

of course people say its better than places where theres no education, obviously it is! you could compare things in answer to everyone in this countries’ problems. but its relative to the society we live in, hence things like relative social exclusion.
March 29, 2009 at 11:53 pm

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General Lighting

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joshd96320;316429 wrote:

to be honest, theres some awesome teachers at my school (deben). and theres some shit… im in all top sets and do try if im interested, and i dont have a hate for the teacher. i do well in physics, coz i like it, and our teacher gets us engaged! whereas biology, i cant stand. our teacher is too rigid and we do fuck all. I just like to get on through it as quick as i can. i aint gunna rebel coz its a waste of time for me.. not much time left. Id rather focus my time on things like improving the public image on freeparties =):bounce_fl

had a look out of curiosity and compared to my own high school days (21 years ago :crazy_diz) there has been some improvement but not all that much – I see its a “performing arts specialist school” which I suppose is good for resources but the realities are that there aren’t many lasting careers in the arts – even the end of the pier shows are run on a shoestring these days…

where I work there are girls in their early 20s who did all the dance/performing at school and wanted to do it professionally but when it comes to the employment there is really no commercial demand for it – other than the dancers what get their kit off in curve bar and are paid a pittance for doing so but they are mostly foreign anyway…

also a lot of people want to work in the TV / broadcast industry but the jobs are being slashed rather than growing – so I can see how the educators are torn between boosting young peoples hopes and aspirations and the realities of the market..
March 29, 2009 at 11:57 pm

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Shpongled

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boothy;316478 wrote:

i always had a huge problem with the reason WHY i should sit there and do something that i had no desire to do and often couldn’t do. i’ll credit myself as good at art/social sciences which is what i loved, but science/maths i genuinely couldnt comprehend and hated and i didnt like wasting my time and being told to do them – not because i hated learning, but beacuase i’d rather be double an extra lesson of history/english/media instead.

I know exactly what you mean man. What I worry about though, is that if I don’t bother in certain lessons (R.E :wink:) then I won’t be able to do things I want to do at a higher level.

I really would love to do pharmacology at a higher level, but the idea of doing sciences at A level doesn’t inspire me. I think I’ll go into mental health, as psychology (even though I can’t study it at GCSE) is so amazing interesting :sign0076:
March 30, 2009 at 12:06 am

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General Lighting

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if you want to study anything healthcare related buy don’t want to go the Uni route immediately I think you might be able to get training via the NHS Foundation Trusts but it means (after basic training) going straight onto the frontline at a NHS hospital….
March 30, 2009 at 12:22 am

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Shpongled

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General Lighting;316497 wrote:

if you want to study anything healthcare related buy don’t want to go the Uni route immediately I think you might be able to get training via the NHS Foundation Trusts but it means (after basic training) going straight onto the frontline at a NHS hospital….

I don’t mind going to university, but I with have a look at that, thank you! 🙂
March 30, 2009 at 1:02 am

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MisterDuck

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General Lighting;316497 wrote:

if you want to study anything healthcare related buy don’t want to go the Uni route immediately I think you might be able to get training via the NHS Foundation Trusts but it means (after basic training) going straight onto the frontline at a NHS hospital….

one of the excellent things is that there are alternative routes into careers these days, im hopefully gonna be doing a ba honours and i havent got any a-levels at all!

one of my good friends is doing something like what GL has said, he didnt have sufficient a-levels to go to the direct uni courses but has trained hands-on for a year, now he gets access to a uni degree but its work-based, arguably this is better – from what ive found with my youth work course and my friend has found with his healthcare route, a balance of experience doing the job and formal training is ideal, rather than just one or the other.
March 30, 2009 at 3:44 pm

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joshd96320

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General Lighting;316491 wrote:

had a look out of curiosity and compared to my own high school days (21 years ago :crazy_diz) there has been some improvement but not all that much – I see its a “performing arts specialist school” which I suppose is good for resources but the realities are that there aren’t many lasting careers in the arts – even the end of the pier shows are run on a shoestring these days…

where I work there are girls in their early 20s who did all the dance/performing at school and wanted to do it professionally but when it comes to the employment there is really no commercial demand for it – other than the dancers what get their kit off in curve bar and are paid a pittance for doing so but they are mostly foreign anyway…

also a lot of people want to work in the TV / broadcast industry but the jobs are being slashed rather than growing – so I can see how the educators are torn between boosting young peoples hopes and aspirations and the realities of the market..

to be honest, this performing arts doesnt mean a lot, i mean we got a couple of drama studios and some alright equipment, but it aint much special… i reckon they just did it for the £100,000 grant, of which they spent like ten grand on a finger print system for the library

wot teh fook!

just had an Ofsted report. Got 3(satisfactory) on all of them i think, although we have a new head teacher and he is improving things, all though it looks like he wants to remove our uniqueness ie no crazy hair etc 😥
March 31, 2009 at 11:42 am

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damo666

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joshd96320;316629 wrote:

just had an Ofsted report. Got 3(satisfactory) on all of them i think, although we have a new head teacher and he is improving things, all though it looks like he wants to remove our uniqueness ie no crazy hair etc 😥

Yea my sister in law goes to this school and has been complaining about the head being abit of a dictator.
March 31, 2009 at 2:53 pm

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joshd96320

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damo666;316876 wrote:

Yea my sister in law goes to this school and has been complaining about the head being abit of a dictator.

fucking small world lol.. wat year she in?

fuck me i saw this site on the internets and know im talking to a dude that lives about 2 miles away :laugh_at:
March 31, 2009 at 3:21 pm

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damo666

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joshd96320;316922 wrote:

fucking small world lol.. wat year she in?

fuck me i saw this site on the internets and know im talking to a dude that lives about 2 miles away :laugh_at:

She’s now doing her exams it’s her last couple of months left.
March 31, 2009 at 3:23 pm

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MisterDuck

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our school got a terrible ofsted report just before i joined, my brothers time there was filled with proper sketchy violence directed at individuals and stuff, whereas my year was hell bent on general anarchy but not aimed at anyone or hurting individuals (altho sometimes this did happen as standard)

anyway, they solved it by bringing in a complete cunt as a headteacher

hardlined bastard, used to get people in his office wind them up calling them scum etc. until they snapped, bang suspended. i got suspended 39 times and didnt finish there, he kicked half our year out without giving a fuck what we’d be doing elsewhere.

but hey, offsted loved him. and school tables obviously don’t care when kids who aren’t gonna achieve high academic grades are “asked” to take their exams at a local college instead…
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