Quote:Originally posted by chris 07
My friend wants to go to england because she thinks that dentists will make more there since...well yeah...a bit off topic I know sorry...
tell her the weather is always rubbish and dentists dont get paid unless they go into private practice 'cause the NHS is rubbish
Edd
Quote:Originally posted by llamaranger
Quote:Originally posted by chris 07
My friend wants to go to england because she thinks that dentists will make more there since...well yeah...a bit off topic I know sorry...
tell her the weather is always rubbish and dentists dont get paid unless they go into private practice 'cause the NHS is rubbish
Edd
haha i'll be sure to tell her! :lmao:
@Dephenistrator: dang, so thats how they're so smart...having a 2000 alphabet system helpts too i guess... :eek:
They say thats why the suicide rate is so high in Japan, Though they can't really be sure.
I'd hate to live like that, heck I'd probaly be screwed already if I lived there cause I repeated a grade. (Playing games like ES leave little room for homework.)
Reason the British term is so long is that long ago - before you tots were born you actually had to work in school. WHAT? you say?
Well my mum matriculated (uni entry) in 10 subjects before ww2 - 6 in the high 90s, 3 in the low 90s and 1 85% - you think this was easy?
I saw her past paper practices and they were equivalent and more than what is expected at a Doctoral level nowadays.
Why?
The Empire - people were needed who could take responsibility and would know what was right in High Commissions etc all over the world and they had to have back-up in this country for them too.
Guess what? My mum was not given a University place. No one helped her. So she just went out into the world and made a career for herself.
:O eh?
yeah schools are really dumbing down their curriclua these days, i can't see how anyone could drop out these days, it's so easy. but ragz, i admire your mum for what she went through, and you given the time your mum was at school
People drop out because schools become nothing but busy. believe me, I like learning, that's why I hate school.
P.S. : I didn't drop out, but I know people who have, one in particular is 18 years old now and a supervisor at UPS. (How screwed up is that?)
A few days late and one of my random visits back to the forums, but I can completely relate to your post above.
School has been hectic lately, and I've admittedly spent more of my time questioning it rather than doing the normal work. People really do specialize in different subjects and fields in their life, and I'm starting to see how it becomes more and more true after time goes by.
I can say there's no other subject like it in my case than math. I really suck at math. Doing the same work day after day, learning nothing new. Maybe it's the method my teacher uses to teach, maybe it's the subject itself. And lately that subject has been holding me back, and I've been trying hard to manage a passing grade.
Now, a teacher or other academic professional looking at that might consider me a poor student because I'm struggling in a class that many other people can pass without much effort. That is not the case, however. Every other class I take is an honors class that I am pulling very good grades in. For music, I am first chair in the section for my band. For testing, I usualy make it to the top 10.
The main hinderance in my grades? Homework. I've never liked homework, it's never liked me. Life at home is busy enough without it, and in my oppinion it's useless. Teachers give it because they consider it "practice that will improve your grades," but it's done nothing but pull my grades down. Especially my math teacher, who has no idea how to properly assign homework. The system used is you get homework assigned every week and one is then randomly collected at the end of the week. A flawed system in my oppinion. You see, a person can do just one of those assignments and pass, and another can do all but one and fail. It gives students the mindset that not all their work matters and they are less inclined to do it.
A lot of what happens in high school is incompatabilities with the teaching method of the teacher and the learning method of the student as well, which is another poor assessment to make. You only have a week at the start of the school year to transfer out of the class to a different one, before the teacher really begins to teach anything.
And then it's too late.
The way I look at it, school isn't really helping me get to my ideal carreer at all. Me and a group of people I work on things with from around the country have decided to go into making games, designing them, coding them, modding them, etc, maybe even start up our own company for it, a year and a half of planning all this out. We have started work on a few small projects, managing servers for MMO's, it's a good community of people. School doesn't teach me to do any of that. I can see that the experience I need until I can take an official course for it in college must be self taught, which I spend most of my time doing. I wish I could go to a school for things like this, but it's not gonna happen and I'm stuck.
School itself is easy, but the useless tedium and boring atmosphere have made it almost pointless.
i still got like 2 and a half months to go.... and then another 3 years for only high school!!!!!(got a 6 year time in highschool and tahts without failing a year)
I know! I keep telling my friends that even though I like to do coding I still hate math! I'm good with the logic and process of coding, you don't need mountains of math for that.
I had trouble in my math class, just as you did. My solution: I wrote programs specifically to quick calculate my homework.
. One could still argue I'm learning that way.
well tahts a way indeed, but i do hope ya learn a small bit still