Hasn't really hanged from my school days, granted from what I've seen and heard from others year 10/11 peeps start the VCE pre pearly while the rest of the years do the fun stuff.
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Hasn't really hanged from my school days, granted from what I've seen and heard from others year 10/11 peeps start the VCE pre pearly while the rest of the years do the fun stuff.
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Same happening with banking and cash. The banks are gaining control of our money, closing branches and ATMs so that we have to bank online. But hey, waving a card is so much less of a hassle. Let’s hope there’s never a catastrophic hacking from an outside source, or even withholding our money by the government (refer Canada).
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It's been like that for yonks. We did Christmas stuff 20 odd years ago when I was in primary school.
Schools don't even want kids there on the last day anymore.
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A conservative politician is still most likely person with a family. Sometimes even a secret second one if you are the leader of the Nationals.
People celebrating the death of politicians is pretty tacky. At least wait until they are cold before telling the world how much better than them you are.
People celebrating the death of politicians is pretty tacky. At least wait until they are cold before telling the world how much better than them you are.
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Haven’t seen anyone “celebrating” his death or implying they are better than him. What i have seen, are people responding to the “what a great bloke” he was being bandied around by other politicians.
He wasn’t a nice bloke and his decisions, based on his own beliefs, severely impacted many Australians and I don’t see why people need to shy away from that just because he’s dead.
His family aren’t hearing anything they didn’t hear when he was alive
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It's that time of the year where you need to avoid Channel 10 and it's multichannel, app etc. at all costs.
They aren't real celebrities. It isn't Lord of the Flies. STFU with your musical number.
They aren't real celebrities. It isn't Lord of the Flies. STFU with your musical number.
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This makes sense in general what you're saying, but actually executing things like that and not getting the Doritos out is the hard bit.Yes, non-hungry eating is a real curse. I found I couldn’t have certain foods in the house. Sugary stuff mainly. There are lots of low-calorie snacks around. Fruit, crackers, popcorn, chewing gum, soda and mineral water. Not very exciting but they’re a help.
Eating protein at each meal makes you feel full for longer.
Keep busy. Delay eating. If you’re thinking of having something, say to yourself that you can have it after you’ve done a task, or if you’re watching tv, make yourself wait for an ad break. Make a rule for yourself that you don’t eat during the action.
Drink water instead.
Don’t make excuses or feel sorry for yourself. Who’s the boss, you or that pesky brain of yours that has told you you’re hungry?
Sorry for the rant, no offence meant
Ah no, there is no notice to parents to say "the teaching year is done". Nothing to do with schools staying open just so parents keep working. Teachers set the culture by allowing students movie watching and free time.
Think I did a minor hip flexor injury last Sunday snowboarding.. took a few days to stand out after all the other sore points, which are easily identified by what wasn’t sore… actually I can’t think of anything. My mouth and nose were ok I guess.
Going back tomorrow, I’ve healed long enough
Going back tomorrow, I’ve healed long enough
Shite post mate.
The last two of school have been wind down weeks for as long as I can remember. The kids are tired.
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It was the same 20+ years ago when I was in highschool - I went to a private highschool, nothing real fancy but mum thought it would provide a rounded education
I remember year 10 we had finished the curriculum & exams with over a week of the school year to go - and those of us who'd been studying Yr11 subjects had completed those even earlier
A letter went to all parents to say we'd be finishing a week earlier than planned at the start of the year, but that didn't go down well with some parents cracking the shits - they had paid for that last week of school so they felt entitled to receive it...
That meant a year level of 15/16yr olds going to school for the purpose of glorified babysitting & moving watching for a week
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My school sent a letter to parents saying the last week would be a supervision week only.
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From year 9 onwards I was doing year ahead maths classes, that allowed me to do year 12 Further Maths when I was year 11
With year 12 classes finishing before year 11 ones, it meant we had a few weeks of spare periods - so rock up for maths class & occasionally we'd use the time for other subjects but we also went outside to have fun
One such outside day was when our teacher bought to class his 3 person slingshot that him or his brothers had bought back from the US - this thing was massive, could do a bit of damage and we had fun firing random objects from it
With year 12 classes finishing before year 11 ones, it meant we had a few weeks of spare periods - so rock up for maths class & occasionally we'd use the time for other subjects but we also went outside to have fun
One such outside day was when our teacher bought to class his 3 person slingshot that him or his brothers had bought back from the US - this thing was massive, could do a bit of damage and we had fun firing random objects from it
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It’s such a massive load of BS
Our school counsellor basically told me that if I didn’t get a high enough TEE score ( yes I’m that old) and go to Uni I’d be a nothing and my life would be shit
Well he was sooooooo wrong !
Kids these days are definitely not prioritising the ATAR pathway and uni when you add to that the cost of uni fees and the creation of “out of the square “ and online jobs .
High school is very important and I encourage kids to stay to year 12 but in the big scheme of things it’s more about a good work ethic, willingness to learn and reliability and a lot of that stuff is passed on from parents, not schools.
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there are absolutely jobs you need to go to uni for but yes it was very much a push that every job worth doing required a uni degree and if you didn't go to uni you were a failure
they were closing down technical schools around this time and pushing people away from trades
so i ended up at uni in a course I didn't like and dropped out and wasted money on uni fees, went and worked retail while I tried to work out what I wanted to do
I dropped outta uni after 3 weeks oopsidaisy
I'm doing alright for myself now
I'm doing alright for myself now
