Private education

Looks a little better for the shoulder-surfers if I’m typing in word at work rather than sitting typing on a message board.

I’m sure your mother would be very proud you could spot that

And you wouldn't use Word just for spell checking, would you?

I'm sure my mother wouldn't care, but I just taught MySQL for a bunch of computer-illiterate and the different quotes caused a lot of problems. Which is why I notice them now. Had to fix about a million of those.

Ice

Wtf? The teachers can’t “pass” the kids, they have to prove themselves to the exam board in the standard grades and highers (or whatever they are nowadays) they sure as hell have to bend over backwards to make sure each pupil is ready for them to the best of their ability though, don’t you think in an ideal world that would only fair for every pupil?

I understand what you are saying here, let the deadwood drop out and the people with potential get two years of peace, it’s the only option teachers have in a comp. What I’m saying is that amongst that group of deadwood dropouts are probably a number of them who had the ability to get a couple of highers, get themselves behind a sodding desk somewhere and make some sort of contribution to society, however small, and they should be owed the right by the government for the chance to prove that, but the state education system can’t accommodate and so it’s a life on the tonic wine for them.

the teachers don't "pass" the kids themselves in private schools but they'll make sure even the idiots with rich parents pass.

It's not fair but it's life.

I went to one of the shittiest schools imaginable but instead of sitting around wallowing about how bad it;s results were, i actually worked and ended up in the 90 something percentile, everyone with the ability is capable of it just the same as everyone who doesn't give a shit is capable of leaving and taking up their life of uselessness.

Sorry ice, you must have missed this:
And what if I did use it for a spell-checker? Are you the spelling police? I didn’t know we weren’t allowed to use one on JT.

Oh and trust me, the amount I have to dumb-down to debate with certain people is so scary that I can’t utilise the vocabulary I’d like to… and Word certainly doesn’t have entries for a lot of my better efforts.

Yeah exactly, and I respect people who have made the choice to do that a lot more than the idiots at a private school who had the luxury of good teaching support. The point where the private school thing falls down is at university... everyone is expected to go and so the drop-out rates for people who hadn’t learned to apply themselves without support from my school was massive. The few of my friends from the state school I would have gone to who made the entry requirements however had learned a damn sight more self sufficiency and in most cases stuck the course.

Choosing to work hard and choosing not to fall in with the wrong crowd is so difficult though, and at such a young age it’s nearly impossible to see how starting to funk about at school is going to cost you later on. I just think it is so sad that the majority of kids don’t get the chance the deserve unless they are 100% commited to getting their heads down from a young age. You may be an exception but I think given the chance most kids will gladly piss about until it’s too late, I probably would have.

well in all honesty I done my fair amount of pissing about too and I didn't exactly run around with guys with halo's above their heads but I still did OK and I'm not an exception to the rule. It's not as black and white as you either work like a slave and do not bad in a state school or else you fanny about and fail miserably.

and you're exactly right about eejits in private school, it's amazing how hopeless these people are in uni considering how much it's cost their parents to get them their.

Nope, it's something I like to call "irony". I know you can spell, which is more than I can say for the most British folk here.


I'm not, Seb is. He's the grammar police. I've just been wondering why English is generally spelled so badly on a board with majority of English-speaking people.

I know what you mean. There are people who are scared of big words.

Ice

the basic literacy of our nation is awful; you aren't the only one to notice it, don't worry. this, coupled with an overall arrogance that basically states 'we're british and we're going to spell however we want', leads to some of the crap you read around here.

I moved to the neighborhood I live in mostly because of it's excellent public school system. I try to avoid private schooling as much as possible as I have my son rather NOT associate with its clientele. Money has nothing to do with it as it would be more economical for me to move out of this neighborhood and into a more affordable town and cart my kid off to some private school. Having gone to private school myself, I know it is all a big bag of bull and leaves zero tolerance for individuality. Now, of course if I saw my son not getting the level of education I expect for him, I would look at other alternatives.....

Panama: not all girls from private schools are bithces!!!!!!!!!