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Originally posted by The Hitman
It's all perception, and it goes both ways.

Private schoolkid's may take their education for granted. Hell, they're not paying for it, and they probably see themselves above public school gits who don't pay and apparently don't have the same standard of education.

Public schoolkid's may look at the private schoolkid and think "what a coat-tailing prat!", when it's not their fault that the parents wanted to fork out money that they earned trying to give their child the alleged best chance at education.

And this is where the problem is. I'm a public schoolkid doing year 12, and I live in Dandenong. Perception? I'm a poor bum who couldn't afford a train ticket to Toorak. Truth? I'm gunning for a course at RMIT where the overwhelming majority of private schoolkid's won't have a hope of getting into.

People think education or where you live automatically puts you in a certain class. Wrong. I have dreams, and I plan to live up to my ambitious aims. They might be lower than some others, they might be higher than others. But I can tell you that my dreams aren't the norm, and while I hate my suburb, I can't stand it when people automatically label me after learning I go to a public school in the north of Dandenong.

It goes both ways, and they're both wrong.

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Well said!! im going for a course at La Trobe after year 12.
They kids that have come out my Public School, there are two that are now in Tv Series. My brothers very good friends starts on Nov 7th on channel 10! and some gay guy from my school was in another last year and there was some guy that was an extra on Blue Heelers. I dont think there is anything wrong from my School.
 
Originally posted by Docker_Brat
I'd like to see a detailed study on the difference between employment prospects for private v public educated people.

I perceive that privately educated kids get a better chance in the job market and go further in their careers. If I had kids I would have no hesitation about sending them to a private school, no matter the cost, even though when I was younger I thought only ****ers went to private schools.
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I'm not sure about employment but I've heard that public school students do better in Tertiary education as private school students are often spoon fed information to lift the schools score averages.

Sometimes that haven't learn't to think for themselves. Where as public students have to push themselves if they want good results.
 
Well Pat Cash went to my school!
Sure he didn't finish year 12, but I think I can safely say it's because of my school's superior teaching that he played tennis! (Just kidding)

I go to a catholic school, which differs somewhat from a private school. I have no great problem with it except for the fact it's not co-ed. My school is ok, the kids are usually between rich and poor, which isn't a bad thing.

My sisters school on the other-hand (Tintern) is a true rich kids school, and it shows with the attitudes of the girls that go there. It would be hard to argue they don't have a significant advantage over kids at other schools when it comes to quality of learning, but I don't believe you should have to fork out over $12,000 a year to go there. You get what you pay for I guess...
 

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Originally posted by bluecrow


Why?? :confused:
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45 no full-feeing positions. The JET and an interview determines who gets in, and over a thousand sit the JET. Previous writing experience counts for more than your ENTER score. Unless your school makes you get your work published, or makes you read the newspapers, makes you watch the news, and makes you form opinions on current affairs and other writers, you have absolutely no advantage.

Some good money saved on my mothers part, I would have thought.

The Hitman
 
Originally posted by BIG POPPA PUMP
Everyone should have access to the same standard of education regardless of their financial position. At the moment, the ones who are able to pay up are getting the better deal. Is that fair?
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Yes.

Everyone should have access to the same standard of public education regardless of their financial position.

If people don't have the money, they can't send their kids to a private school, and that is fair enough. Private schools are not charities. In saying that, the Govt should allocate nearly all their spending (for schools) to the public system rather than the private system.
 
Originally posted by Squeak
Go to a private school and add 10 points to your tertiary entrance score.
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I think I would've been able to add between 5 and 10 points to my TER had I gone to a private school, but I really don't give a ****. I ended up with a TER 30 odd points higher than I needed for the course I'm doing so I don't regret a thing (eg. not studying, paying attention, tryingetc.:D). I'm more likely to pick on a friend going to an all girls school than a private one.
 
Originally posted by hourn
i go to waverley collegein the eastern suburbs of sydney.
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wow u go to waverley, i go to vinnies. I haven't really had any trouble with going to the private school exept when some ppl pay me out in the street coz we have to wear a cane hat in summer and beret in winter. We occasionally cop a bit of attitude on excursions or something, but admittedly the private school kids give it back to them as well.
 
yeah I go to a private school... Mentone Girls' Grammar... honestly from going there, I'd much rather go to a state school or a Catholic school. It's sh*t... we pay heaps every year, and you should see the state of the school... but I think they're FINALLY starting to develope it.. THANK F*CKING GOD!
Our school has a pretty bad name... everyone thinks that the majority of girls are stuck up b*tches... and some are! Well, the ones on full fees. Theres heaps of "scholarship girls" (including me) who would probably be at a state school if they didn't have a scholarship.
I know heaps of people at private schools and state schools, but when you're not in school uniform theres no difference.

(you'd probably know my school from the BROWN blazers and RED sports uniform. Stands out in a crowd.)
 
I started off at a public high school and year 9 to year 12 at a private. There were few snoby people there but then there were just as many snobby people at the public school (and lots more bitchiness).

I think its wrong that private school people get classified as snobs and prisses or whatever. Some ex private school students will be the nicest people you will ever meet :)
 
Different schools suit different people. I went to the local Catholic girls school, because at the time that's what seemed best for me. The school was far from rich & exclusive, but it did me fine for 5 years. My parents sent my brother to the boys catholic school just around the corner, but he left after year 10 because it wasn't him. So instead he went to the local public school. He got a better education and had better facilities even though he was now blazerless and with nothing to prove.

There are different types of private schools and there are different types of private school students :)

(There were some right daddy's girls at my school, but also some of the most kindhearted, generous and unaffected people I've ever met. The person makes the education rather than the opposite way around imho.)
 

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Originally posted by Rohan_
Why do people have such a poor opinion of Private Schools and people who go to them/or have been. I got called a Private School ****er on the weekend and found it very offensive.
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truth hurts eh loser boy?

maybe coz private school w ankers sponge of everyone all their lives - still living at home are you ro baby?

And why is it privated schooled dropkicks are the dumbest morons in society and have the worst grammar? Tell us please ro baby...
 
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Originally posted by Rohen_


truth hurts eh loser boy?

maybe coz private school w ankers sponge of everyone all their lives - still living at home are you ro baby?

And why is it privated schooled dropkicks are the dumbest morons in society and have the worst grammar? Tell us please ro baby...
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And you are trolling a "loser" What does that make you?
 
I went to a private school, the vast majority of people are nice, however, i think that a lot are very insular in their outlook on life. My school was full of middle class xenaphobes (i have no idea if that is spelt correctly) after we left school most became open minded enough to accept others but there are some who don't.

I can certainly see why private school kids get the old boys club stereotype, if you've ever been to the MCC members on Boxing Day and seen 60+ year old men wearing their Scotch College etc blazers, you'd probably have the same opinion. However i'm not like that and i went to a private school.

The flip side to that though is one i have more experience with, we used to laugh at the local public school because part of their education was to learn how to fill out a dole form.

It wasn't their fault that they had to do that, but we still gave them heaps for it. Its the same thing people get labelled unfairly and you need to take people on a case by case basis.

However, having said that, regardless of the quality of public schooling when i have kids they will be going to a private school.
 
Originally posted by myee8
I quite like private/catholic school girls myself. Something about the uniforms they wear... ;) :D
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I'm with you there buddy. Private/catholic school girls go off like no other girls. Of how I dream about all those Mandeville girls I.....
 

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Private school [add swear word here] would get more respect if they didn't go around the city puncing around on Melbourne's public transport like they own the place.
 
Hmm glad to see some of you agreeing with me! Well in WA, i quite like the Ursula Frayne Catholic College. Love the uniforms (the girls one that is! ;) ), and there's this girl i know that used to go there and now goes to the same uni as me, and boy is she hot... ;). However, i haven't seen her for nearly a year :(.
 
Originally posted by Hoggy
Private school [add swear word here] would get more respect if they didn't go around the city puncing around on Melbourne's public transport like they own the place.
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They do.
 

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