Things that sh*t me the seventeenth

[Gralin]

If I had kids I'd have a really hard time keeping a straight face telling them how important high school is to them.

there's plenty of useful stuff in high school but I wasn't a fan of how they told us at 15 to decide the "rest of our lives" with the whole pick your job and see what electives you need for the uni course crap they do

 

[Madas]

there's plenty of useful stuff in high school but I wasn't a fan of how they told us at 15 to decide the "rest of our lives" with the whole pick your job and see what electives you need for the uni course crap they do

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.

 

[Gralin]

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.

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

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I dropped outta uni after 3 weeks oopsidaisy
I'm doing alright for myself now

 

[the_interloper]

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

I did that too, and yep got some free time out of it. Also the year 12 subjects were on the other campus so I had to leave the previous class early and I'd get to the next one late, usually via the canteen.

 

[Billy ray]

does anyone else thiink schools should make the easter, winter and spring school hoidays 3 weeks long and drop off this waste of time last few weeks in dec?

 

[Roobs321]

What children are doing at school this time of year.

I have three kids in primary school basically saying to me they are doing little more than free time and watching movies in class. Hard to believe their teacher's are getting paid full rates for crap like this.

Was always thus though, last century it was like that too

 

[Quivorir]

does anyone else thiink schools should make the easter, winter and spring school hoidays 3 weeks long and drop off this waste of time last few weeks in dec?

My kids school already does 3 weeks in the middle. No thanks.

 

[Off The Couch]

My kids school already does 3 weeks in the middle. No thanks.

Do staff get three weeks as well

 

[GreyCrow]

I see we have rotated back to schools and teachers again

 

[the_interloper]

I see we have rotated back to schools and teachers again

Well what topic on here hasn't been discussed many times?

 

[GreyCrow]

Well what topic on here hasn't been discussed many times?

Its like a Sky News Channel yearly roster

Cant say Merry Xmas
Why do people attack the date of Oz Day
Why are Valentines cards in stores
Why are hot cross buns appearing
Why do teachers get paid so many holidays
Why are Christians attacked
Why do refugees get all the benefits
Why dont dole bludgers get off the dole by fruitpicking uber driving
etc etc etc

Just a rotating list that gets replayed every year

Happy for people to have a say just amusing the regularity of it all

 

[Ghost Patrol]

What children are doing at school this time of year.

I have three kids in primary school basically saying to me they are doing little more than free time and watching movies in class. Hard to believe their teacher's are getting paid full rates for crap like this.

You could always home school them.

Sounds hard eh?

 

[the_interloper]

Its like a Sky News Channel yearly roster

Cant say Merry Xmas
Why do people attack the date of Oz Day
Why are Valentines cards in stores
Why are hot cross buns appearing
Why do teachers get paid so many holidays
Why are Christians attacked
Why do refugees get all the benefits
Why dont dole bludgers get off the dole by fruitpicking uber driving
etc etc etc

Just a rotating list that gets replayed every year

Happy for people to have a say just amusing the regularity of it all

Is it Mackers or Maccas etc

 

[frontierpsychiatrist]

My hot first world take on things that shit me: getting water in my eyes when I'm in the pool and trying to smash the volleyball into my kids opponents. I mean, I could wear goggles, but they shit me on a sensory level.

 

[Quivorir]

Do staff get three weeks as well

School car park is empty every day so they're definitely not required at school. They take the first day back every term as a curriculum day too.

 

[Pistol Night]

My hot first world take on things that shit me: getting water in my eyes when I'm in the pool and trying to smash the volleyball into my kids opponents. I mean, I could wear goggles, but they shit me on a sensory level.

Greg Focker likes this

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Just found out my kid is learning the goddamn KAZOO at school next year

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Just found out my kid is learning the goddamn KAZOO at school next year

Yeah they changed the curriculum because recorders are woke.

 

[Beerfish]

Just found out my kid is learning the goddamn KAZOO at school next year

That should take all of 5 minutes

 

[Ivelisse]

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.

Man who went out of his way to make people's lives worse gets not nice things said about him when he makes the news one more time. Cry me a river.

 

[eddiesmith]

Idiots who don’t understand how to keep a house cool in summer…

44 here today and I get home to find all the blinds and windows open and the aircon off… **** me, I can’t wait to get back to my place next week…

 

[Scotland]

Man who went out of his way to make people's lives worse gets not nice things said about him when he makes the news one more time. Cry me a river.

Another one who missed the point.

 

[kickazz]

Ahhh just copped the old supermarket checkout push-in.

You know, where you see one person with just one item about to get served, so you go up behind them.

Then their partner waltzes up with a basket full of stuff , walks right past you and starts to unload.

It's not going to ruin my day by any means, but talk about a good way of telling the world how much of a douchebag you are.

 

[Ivelisse]

I'll say something good about Kevin Andrews. And this is true: In 2024, he died.