hammy
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I am amazed at the amout of politics lurking amongst the school system. Tell me I'm not alone, please.
My ambition is to do costume design and acting, so as my school is a country school there is no support. The politics - First as my school is smaller many subjects did not run because there were not enough people, usually missing out by one person. Textiles was one of these. Now at my school we have one the best teachers in the state, who has been able to get her students without fail into the top 10% of the state every time. That is bloody fantastic espescially for a small country school, which struggles to get a student over the 90% mark in the exams. We also have new top of the range equipment. So now I am doing this subject by distance education. I find it amazing that about 50% of the students in my year are forced to do subjects by distance when we have the resources right at our grasps going to waste. But to top it off we have the teachers persueing us to drop these subjects, the ones we are most passionate about because the school system doesnt "approve of it", but using the excuse that by doing it by distance will cause to much presure and You dont need it to get a good mark. I'm sorry but the pressure isnt coming from the subject.
Second the politics in money, the goverment spends billions on development and roads(please we do not want to look like america as well as curtsey to them) while schools are not getting any funding. Because our school gained in numbers by 2 and the current yr 7's family income rose by $100,so because we gained a slight increase in that particular year we have no priority school funding anymore so now instead of 1 of the 2 oval being fenced of for 5 years waiting for a multi purpose centre to be built, we have the that second oval back and we are still have to hire the local hall out every time we need an enclosed space to do something, so now we are becoming even more broke. But dont worry all the big shot schools are being government funded.
Third you'll laugh at this our school has now declined in numbers by 2 people and we are now over staffed by 0.7 teachers, and to avoid throwing any of the teachers out (now if that had happened more students would have to take ditance subjects) they tried to kick out the librarian and therefore close the library, with our principal stating that all research is being done over the internet nowdays and if we want info from books we can use the local library. Well our local library is an hours drive away and we arent able to get all info off the net anyway especially when our assesments require research from a range of sources. They quickly found out that the librarian was an appointed possition so that wouldnt work. and as our 1 and only drama teacher was leaving they couldn't had to appoint a new one there for up coming hsc class(oh we wont be having 1 for the first term this year when we start our major projects...that will be fun). they finally found a teacher to leave though.
1 another question. Are the teachers there for the students...or are the students there for the teachers? Last years preliminary class was left with a teacher who had never taught the advanced class before and was teaching us how to get a top mark ... of about a c average for a standard level class...all because HE needed the learning experience. he is now taking the prelim ext class this year..i wish them luck.
This is proberly not going to get widely recognised but i hope it does at least get recognised. The presure of the HSC is huge enough as it is and i have already lost friends and other people around my area through suicide because of it, I'm just praying that i can still make it. But they didnt need the extra politics involved and niether do we. I just get the impression that we are playing the peices in one big board game.
My ambition is to do costume design and acting, so as my school is a country school there is no support. The politics - First as my school is smaller many subjects did not run because there were not enough people, usually missing out by one person. Textiles was one of these. Now at my school we have one the best teachers in the state, who has been able to get her students without fail into the top 10% of the state every time. That is bloody fantastic espescially for a small country school, which struggles to get a student over the 90% mark in the exams. We also have new top of the range equipment. So now I am doing this subject by distance education. I find it amazing that about 50% of the students in my year are forced to do subjects by distance when we have the resources right at our grasps going to waste. But to top it off we have the teachers persueing us to drop these subjects, the ones we are most passionate about because the school system doesnt "approve of it", but using the excuse that by doing it by distance will cause to much presure and You dont need it to get a good mark. I'm sorry but the pressure isnt coming from the subject.
Second the politics in money, the goverment spends billions on development and roads(please we do not want to look like america as well as curtsey to them) while schools are not getting any funding. Because our school gained in numbers by 2 and the current yr 7's family income rose by $100,so because we gained a slight increase in that particular year we have no priority school funding anymore so now instead of 1 of the 2 oval being fenced of for 5 years waiting for a multi purpose centre to be built, we have the that second oval back and we are still have to hire the local hall out every time we need an enclosed space to do something, so now we are becoming even more broke. But dont worry all the big shot schools are being government funded.
Third you'll laugh at this our school has now declined in numbers by 2 people and we are now over staffed by 0.7 teachers, and to avoid throwing any of the teachers out (now if that had happened more students would have to take ditance subjects) they tried to kick out the librarian and therefore close the library, with our principal stating that all research is being done over the internet nowdays and if we want info from books we can use the local library. Well our local library is an hours drive away and we arent able to get all info off the net anyway especially when our assesments require research from a range of sources. They quickly found out that the librarian was an appointed possition so that wouldnt work. and as our 1 and only drama teacher was leaving they couldn't had to appoint a new one there for up coming hsc class(oh we wont be having 1 for the first term this year when we start our major projects...that will be fun). they finally found a teacher to leave though.
1 another question. Are the teachers there for the students...or are the students there for the teachers? Last years preliminary class was left with a teacher who had never taught the advanced class before and was teaching us how to get a top mark ... of about a c average for a standard level class...all because HE needed the learning experience. he is now taking the prelim ext class this year..i wish them luck.
This is proberly not going to get widely recognised but i hope it does at least get recognised. The presure of the HSC is huge enough as it is and i have already lost friends and other people around my area through suicide because of it, I'm just praying that i can still make it. But they didnt need the extra politics involved and niether do we. I just get the impression that we are playing the peices in one big board game.
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