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Good/Bad things about your school (1 Viewer)

xxrenzo

New Member
Joined
Aug 27, 2008
Messages
9
Location
western sydney (ghetto)
Gender
Female
HSC
2009
oh and our school doesn't have air conditioning either
just dodgey fans that are barely attached to the ceiling
everyone cringes sitting under them
lol
 

ninetypercent

ninety ninety ninety
Joined
May 23, 2009
Messages
2,148
Location
Sydney
Gender
Female
HSC
2010
The Good
* one good maths teacher
* competitive environment
* hard exams
* good library
* good textbooks for science and the social sciences
* good head teacher for Maths

the bad
* crap science teachers
* suck up English faculty
* dumb history teachers
* terrible textbook for Maths
* too strict
* mean principal
* ugly uniform
* too many retards
* small school
* subjective marking
* crap head teachers
 

retromcnugget

New Member
Joined
May 29, 2009
Messages
9
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Good:
- Nothing really

Bad:
- I have to wake up at 4:45am just to get to school by 8.
- Freshmans are a c*nt!
- teachers who are incapable of doing their job
- teachers who look like complete stoners
- fully sick 10th graders
- losers who do handball (seriously, leave it behind)
 

Amogh

Member
Joined
May 16, 2009
Messages
751
Gender
Undisclosed
HSC
N/A
good:
awesomest school

bad:
teachers feel me
 

astroe

Member
Joined
Mar 16, 2008
Messages
689
Location
Sydney.
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Good:
  • 20 minutes away from home
  • School has laptops!
  • Go home if no more classes/Come late if no morning classes. :)
  • High Teacher to Student Ratio
  • In the middle of town - Shops!
  • Limitless lunchtime possiblities
  • Around block from massive local library
  • Around block from train station/bus stops
  • Freedom without being too unrestrictive
  • We're allowed out at lunchtimes/recess
  • Nearby carpark - can practically park all day and get away with it.
  • Everything's pretty much new.
  • Teachers care and go above and beyond. :haha:
  • Uniform
  • Ducted A/C

Bad:
  • 20 minutes away from home
  • Some people in the grade don't do jack shit.
  • Compact campus
  • Perhaps.. too much freedom?
  • A/C is on all all the time, 18C all year! :/
  • Resource shortage in some areas
 

astroe

Member
Joined
Mar 16, 2008
Messages
689
Location
Sydney.
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Bahaha.
It's close in some respects, but it's also far, like come on 20 minutes on a GOOD day. :haha:

Might I also add that it's 20 minutes by car, but about 40 minutes by train + walking. :(
 

absorber

Member
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Apr 10, 2009
Messages
874
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
That ain't too bad, I know a guy who goes to chatswood and lives in quaker's hill
 

Cee.

Member
Joined
Jan 12, 2009
Messages
110
Gender
Female
HSC
2011
Good:
- Small classes, only around 15 pupils per class or sometimes less.
- Located in a suburb (Stratty) where all the express trains always stop.
- Close to the station and university (where students buy food from there).
- Nearly every class has a smart board/interactive board.
- Massive hall, basketball courts, soccer field, netball courts.

Bad:
- Limited subject choices, no economics or legal studies.
- There is crappy teachers but again we have the best ones.
- Everyone knows everyone.

Eh, that's all I can think of.
 

lig3r

New Member
Joined
Jan 10, 2008
Messages
10
Gender
Male
HSC
2010
GRC Oatley campus
goods:
1. hektik teachers
2. heaps of tech. (swipe on to sign in =D )
3. no fights at all since every group has thier seperate area to hang
4. 11-12

bads:
1. heaps of international students
2. dodgy principles/ deputys dont even let mufti dayss T_T
3. some dodgy teachersss

all in all Oatley is THE BEST =D
 

Freakstyler09

Member
Joined
Aug 14, 2009
Messages
324
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
The good-
1). The majority of the teachers in the mathematics, English, history and science departments are awesome and know their stuff. They are also mentally tough and very tactful in dealing with idiots.
2). Seniors start school early at 7.55am.
3). There is an excellent variety of books in the library.
4). There is a HIU for the hearing impaired.
4). The unpopular kids in the school are cool.

The bad-
1). 95% of the juniors are dickheads and sluts whose mental capacities can be compared to that of less than a piece of A4 paper.
2). The year sevens are always teased by the year 9s and 10s for no good reason, especially the good year seven kids who like to learn. The disabled and deaf kids at our school are also always teased frequently and ostracised by juniors and sometimes even seniors each day.
3). When you do your exams the exam room is never quiet. There are always idiots in the blocks who truant and run around screaming to distract you or to attract attention to themselves.
4). We always hear the German teacher yelling every day to try to control his annoying and stupid year 8s in the room adjacent to mine when I have Ancient or Modern History. He's a nice guy and it's just slack and sad when the year 8s do this sort of crap to him and wreck his room.
5). Most of the school does not want to learn and instead like provoking the teachers to go into a rage which sometimes happens.
6). Good kids are forced to act bad to fit in and they thus lose the ability to stand up for themselves and make their own decisions. This is bad for them in later life.
7). When you lose a valuable it is gone forever. Missing Ipods, mobile phones or blackberries are rarely returned.
8). The phenomenon of someone's missing mobile phone is almost a weekly occurance.
8). Most of the popular kids are not nice and talk about trivial things that do not matter i.e. sex, drinking etc.
9). Some of our senior leaders hardly do anything.
10). Senior leader elections are based looks and popularity rather than leadership. (you don't do a speech when try out for senior leader. You just say your name at assembly and the school votes off that.)
11). Most of the white kids are racist and are Australian jingoists who don't even know one thing close to Australian history or values.
12). The toilets are never cleaned and thus digusting and stinky.
13). There is no soap in the toilets nor toilet paper.
14). You don't take a shit at school. You have to wait until you get home.
15). There is a huge lack in facilities. We also have outdated equipment and our hall can not fit us all in.
Sport equipment is also wrecked by idiots.
16). Our knockout sport team coaches in sports other than rugby or soccer don't train us. They look at us and let us be. We have to train ourselves (don't get me talking about our knockout basketball team).
17). The PE department is very, very lazy and just want to get paid. Some of the PE teachers are arrogant wankers who don't know anything as well.
18). The social science department is very dismal in teaching.
19). There is no such place in the school where you can do your study in any peace or quiet. You have to study at home.
20). No one encourages us to do extra-curricular activites and thus most of our year 12 university applicants have nothing to put down in their CVs. It's deeply saddening to see the expression on their faces when they realise that their hard work and dedication has amounted to amounted to almost nothing when they apply for scholarships or really selective universities.
21). Our career advisor hardly does anything for the rest of the school except for those who are senior leaders (i.e. syncophants) and she discourages us from applying to universities other than that Wollongong or UWS. She also only helps those she likes thus you if you are quiet and shy like me you must be your own career advisor.
22). Her smile also pisses you off as you can see that it is completely fake.
23). Hardly any of the seniors help each other out and always keep resources to themselves. Bitching is prevalent in the senior years.
24). The seniors always complain about private or selective high schools rather than actually doing their work. (which is understandable but annoying at times)
25). Only German is offered as a language to learn.
Our LOTE teacher (German teacher) does not inform his year 8s about the option of Open High School. You must do that yourself which is disappointing since there are some students who like to do languages besides German but it understandable since most of his classes are filled with idiots.
26). The substitutes that come into school always seem to be some random person dragged off the street to teach.
27). We have to share our oval with the primary school children. Fun.
28). There is not shelter to cover us when it rains.
29). When it rains the popular kids always come in and crowd the library, talking and not putting back their female magaziens on their respective proper racks.
30). The librarian is a real b#%$*. (the other one is nice though)
31). The library is always closed during recess on Fridays.
32). The computer lab is situated in the library thus the library is never quiet when you want to study.
33). Seniors don't shut up in the library.
34). 60% of the Seniors don't study.
35). The school is ranked 600 or somewhere around that.
36). There is more to add to this list.

Seriously, your school should be named and shamed, although it's unfair to the good students, at least it exposes some of the lazy teachers in your school and may be they'll work harder or be more motivated to teach from the shame that they get. :)
 

throwaway

Banned
Joined
Aug 2, 2009
Messages
192
Location
in the hsc exam hall doing a massive dump on my MX
Gender
Male
HSC
2004
Good:
  • 20 minutes away from home
  • School has laptops!
  • Go home if no more classes/Come late if no morning classes. :)
  • High Teacher to Student Ratio
  • In the middle of town - Shops!
  • Limitless lunchtime possiblities
  • Around block from massive local library
  • Around block from train station/bus stops
  • Freedom without being too unrestrictive
  • We're allowed out at lunchtimes/recess
  • Nearby carpark - can practically park all day and get away with it.
  • Everything's pretty much new.
  • Teachers care and go above and beyond. :haha:
  • Uniform
  • Ducted A/C

Bad:
  • 20 minutes away from home
  • Some people in the grade don't do jack shit.
  • Compact campus
  • Perhaps.. too much freedom?
  • A/C is on all all the time, 18C all year! :/
  • Resource shortage in some areas
do u go to st andrews or something
 

Miss Code

Member
Joined
Oct 17, 2008
Messages
286
Location
At the end of the journey!
Gender
Female
HSC
2009
Goods.
Its like a 2minute drive to school, so get a sleep in.
Teachers are fantastic and willing to help, seniors get main attention, you can get help from your teachers even if they are in class they will help you.
Free mass printing

Bads
Year 7s are dirty little scumbuckets who I wish I could kick up the ass.
They call year 12s sluts,cunts,bitches, dumb, etc. I HATE HATE HATE them!!
year 7s
year 7s
year 7s

Clearly I hate them!
The computers are broken as people dont give a shit its not their own.
nowhere to really study.
construction that we have to put up with to not get to use.
year 7s.


Heaps more.
 

Rebecca28

New Member
Joined
Nov 29, 2008
Messages
17
Gender
Female
HSC
2009
Good:
  1. We have such a gifted cohort - so many smart ducklings :D
  2. Our teachers are so supportive - you can go up and ask any of them for help on pretty much everything
  3. Every teacher is willing to stay back after school and help - after school catch up classes are always an option
  4. We have some of the best teachers! - They know they're stuff and can actually teach ^^
  5. There is basically no sport after yr 11 unless you pick PDHPE etc etc
  6. The facilities are pretty darn awesome
  7. Year 12 is always placed as a 1st priority
  8. Our school knows how to celebrate, and when there's a celebration everyone celebrates
  9. When there's a problem ever student will help
  10. We have nice food outlets nearby for after school munchies
  11. Our uniform is pretty nice, not fugly at all
Bad:
  1. We have some dodgy teachers, albeit a very small minority
  2. Some students are just hopeless.... I wish they'd just quit already!
thats so nice to say about our school anna........i dunno if im doing this right
 

Thangquangtu

QUANG(*)
Joined
Mar 22, 2008
Messages
88
Location
<3
Gender
Male
HSC
2009
Good:
-Close to home
-Friendly envrionment
-Right next to KFC

Bad:
-Lack of resources
-Stupid canteen ladies
-Sausage fest in year 12 ==
-Teenyboppers/Year 7's
 
K

khorne

Guest
Good:
Very very good maths and science teachers
Some good English ones
Close to home (5 minute walk)
Close to town (2 minute walk)
Plenty of shops around when you don't want to buy from the overpriced canteen
Competitive
Most students want to do really well, only 1 or 2 slackers
Good computer rooms/Library

Bad:
Principal isn't very friendly
Some poor teachers
Some outdated rooms
 

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