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Originally posted by Matt08
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Originally posted by cujo-man
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Originally posted by Matthew
My opinion on private school's is that they're not much better than state schools, you learn the same but you have much more homework. Private school's are meant to have small classes but most state schools have small classes as well now. There's nothing brilliant about private school's at all. If you want to do well at school then you'll do your best what ever school you go to.
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I agree.
It does look better on your CV though so its pretty useful. Then again I was going to go to the third worst school in Scotland instead of the third best if I hadn't got in to private school.
I think the main thing that makes my school better than some is that it has much more extra-cirricular activities and much better equipment for it than most schools.
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My school used to be a horrible place about 6 years ago and then a new headteacher came along and the whole school has been refurbished and the uniform made smarter. It has two specialist subjects, languages and sport. Great staff who want everyone to do well. I did my GCSE German two years early and came out with a 'C'. I'm now doing AS german and i'm only in year 10. It just proves how good some state schools are. This year there's a brand new 6th Form Centre which is the size of a large primary school and the school have installed over 100 new computers, every room also has an interactive whiteboard in it to make the lessons better.
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Mine was a similar story. We went through loads of different head teachers in the first 2 or 3 years until one managed to turn it around, and the lowest people came out with were D's and E's whereas a few years before that was the highest grade people were coming out with.
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Originally posted by Matt08
My opinion on private school's is that they're not much better than state schools, you learn the same but you have much more homework. Private school's are meant to have small classes but most state schools have small classes as well now. There's nothing brilliant about private school's at all. If you want to do well at school then you'll do your best what ever school you go to.
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Private schools are no better IMO. I was going to go to one but the only differences were the people and attitudes towards learning, and I don't have a particularly positive attitude so I wouldn't have fit in :colour: I went to a state school which had quite a bad reputation at first, but after leaving it was a completely different school and is now a specialist college in ICT and Maths. There, I met some of the best people I could ever ask to meet and came out with decent grades.
2 years on, even though it was the biggest shithole, I still miss it :bawling: |
