Re: The Loaded Dog: HSC exams - Sydney Morning Herald
Oh your post makes me so angry, there are so many things wrong with it, it's ignorance and assumptions, I honestly don't know where to start.• Just because I think their are flaws against competition, doesn't mean that I am completely, 100% against it. What I dislike is thrusting everyone into a competition, whether they want to or not.
No one is asking you to compete, and I apologise for the extensive use of 'deal with it' but in reality competition is a part of life and people will find a way to compete with other people in order to feel more powerful and no amount of education reform or dealing with society will change it.
• About law: You do realise that law is mostly 99.9% prestige? And the ATAR is not an accurate indicator of hard work. Having a 99.7 ATAR is a sign of popularity of a particular course, not having high standards. Some people are naturally gifted to science and mathematics, and hence, get scaled up. There are people who just do the basics and still get ATARs in the 70s and 80s, whilst some academically struggle, and feel excluded from tertiary education, because most universities are too lazy to offer alternative entry schemes
About law: you do realise that law is actually a course you need to work hard in and be dedicated to? An ATAR is an excellent indicator of hard work, it does not require someone to be a genius in order to get 98+, a lot of the HSC is built so that people dont have to be incredibly smart in order to get a great ATAR (i.e. the rote learning of most of the courses). Yes some students are naturally gifted in mathematics but there are some students gifted in humanity subjects/english, in the end a 100 will still fetch you a 99.95 ATAR equivalent for pretty much every subject, and although only a 94 or so is needed in 4U for a 99.95 atar equivalent its arguably much harder to get 94 in 4U than say a 97 in * insert humanity*. If you do the basics you are doing the subjects that the under performers of the state are doing and hence should know the outcomes of doing that (low scaling). And plus if you put in the hard work its very possible to get 85+ even with low scaling subjects. No universities arent too lazy, they are not going to accept people with lower atars because in general the lower atar you have the lower amount of hard work you put in (relative to subjects, but even then 85 or so will get you into a decent amount of courses). For example in a communistic society, in theory everyone gets payed equal, so a doctor gets payed the same as a garbage man. So where is the incentive to become a doctor, to go through alot of pain staking study and education only to get payed the same amount as someone who didnt need to even complete the HSC. In the same vein, what is the incentive for students to put in the hard work if they can just go through loopholes and such by only putting in half the effort?
• Throughout your posts, I have never read an essence that you care about justice or fairness. You have that annoying ''just deal with it'' attitude.
Maybe a lot of my posts do have that attitude, but in the end Im only speaking the truth and Im speaking what other people have in their minds too. No employer likes a whiner, no matter how big your dreams are you cant change this world, its too far deep in the capitalism to change now, you have to deal with the competition and the position you are dealt with. No point in going on a rant and accusing people of ridiculous things just because you were on the wrong side of competition or you were unlucky in life sometimes.
• Oh please dude, I know the real world. I know the ugliness. I know that things will never change, as people are too attached to the status quo. A massive fuck you. You think I live in some princess world? Look at my avatar. It's from a film called Idi I Smotri (1985). A film where there is nothing but suffering and pain. And I watch it, and I think, I wanna make things better for as many people as I possibly can. Ever read the novel Requiem For A Dream? There is a line in it about the 'world laughing at his pain'' because of he feels that no one is there for him. A good educated individual isn't just someone with a degree and a high school certificate. It's someone who reads, has conversations with people, engages in people from different backgrounds, has an open mind... something which I never got from school.
I can tell you that many people around the world in positions much worse than yours will tell you the same thing you have said to me. You may be able to connect with these movies but that in no way validates your argument anyway. Just because YOU feel in pain and suffering, just because YOU dont like how the world works, doesnt mean that they are wrong. Moreover you seem to misunderstand good education. Education is defined it is not as subjective as you like it to be, yes there is black and white in the world because we define them to be so. Education doesnt mean reading the bullshit other people have come up with, your post here is full of spite and you seem to shape your own definition to suit yourself, which is horrible. Education means being able to discipline your mind in order to think properly, to apply existing knowledge and use to them to develop proper communication and logical skills. I also personally hate it when people pull the 'open mind' argument, technically everyone has an open mind because everyone is always learning. Open mind does not mean you have to be hipster about everything. I personally got many things from school, like better communication and logical skills, school has given me the oppurtunity to learn about people from other cultures and backgrounds and hence given me a more open mind.
• And lol, the board of studies does not cater to anyone with disorders, and neither does UAC. Only a very few small minority have been granted special provisions. People with chronic arm pain have been denied writers. People with ADHD only get ''rest breaks'' even though in American public schools, it's the fucking law that they get more provisions. I can't name a single person who has been granted extra time. You are ignorant. And lol... at UAC, they only give you 5 bonus points. Which doesn't help at all.
Yes they do provide services to people with various disabilities, if you only applied to them maybe you would see how they treated you, and if you got rejected from them its just their message that you need to harden up and get on with it, that you are whining for no good reason. If 5 bonus points are not enough then nothing is tbh. 5 points is freaking massive.
• " You need to really appreciate what you have." Sorry, depression is a mental condition, not a state of mind. It ruins your life, ruins your ability to study. Ignorant twat. Really, I deserve an apology. Every psychiartist, social worker, psychologist, councillor would agree with me, and cringe at what you are saying, and probably know alot more about suffering than you do. If you were bullied, you would know how destructive it is. That statement made this argument personal.
Sorry, you still need to appreciate what you have mate, you can see, you can breathe you have a house and you have an education. Something other people dont have, yet you have other people with disabilities manage to seize the day, you have people getting over their depression and putting their life back on track. You deserve an apology for me telling you stop whining yet nearly every post you make you insult me? (Not that I care, I thought it was just peculiar that you think you deserve an apology). Moreover you have been giving way too many assumptions about me, thinking that I am absolutely well off that no problem has occupied my life or anything. Whether its true or not you simply dont know that over the course of my life there may have been troubles, and that is truly ignorant of you.
• And critical thinking is intelligence, as it shows your ability to comprehend interpretation and apply it to situation. It's the mixture of history, philosophy, arts- it shows the humanity and that not everything is black and white.
No, critical thinking comes with intelligence, mostly if you are intelligent you are able to critically think but critically analyzing things isnt what defines intelligence. History is very imprecise and most of non-logic based philosophy is utter bull as well. There are some things that are black and white, and almost everything can be traced back on to something that originated as black or white (logic). We arent all irrational.
• And yes, of course being a doctor of hard. Getting in and staying is hard, yet there are doctors that do not care, neglect their patients, and do it for the cash. And it is so easy to fake ''doing the right thing''. I'm talking about doctors who don't listen to their patients. Doctors who do not actually care, just do the work to be ''adequate''.
Of course, if you are not a good doctor then you arent a good doctor simple as that money driven or not. A lot of doctors although money driven still care greatly about their patients because no matter how money-hungry you are, you still feel as though this guy's health and wellbeing is in my hands and hence I need to take absolute care.
