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Writer's Block: Be true to your school
Sep. 4th, 2010 03:26 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
I don't know. It seems a bit silly to pay for school when you can get it for free. But I do have to admit, my high school was a bit... I don't know... chavvy? So many delinquents attended, and it did mean the teachers had to spend more time than was necessary on these kids, instead of teaching. It's not like they were spending all their time not teaching though, so as long as I focused on learning and behaved, I wasn't really hindered or anything. An annoying thing about my school was that there were lots of courses we didn't have, and for some we did have it was only at a very low level. For example, Spanish. I would have taken Spanish but wasn't willing to take a lower-level course when I could achieve something more. But I know this wasn't necessarily because it wasn't a private school, because other schools around us got drama, psychology, classics, Latin, et cetera, and they were all public too - it's just a matter of staff availability.
In Scotland we don't have to pay tuition fees, which is great, obviously. I've been thinking about doing a second degree, and would like to do it somewhere else, spread my wings a bit, but the idea of having to pay still bugs me, when I could stay here in Scotland and do it for free. :\
I don't know. It seems a bit silly to pay for school when you can get it for free. But I do have to admit, my high school was a bit... I don't know... chavvy? So many delinquents attended, and it did mean the teachers had to spend more time than was necessary on these kids, instead of teaching. It's not like they were spending all their time not teaching though, so as long as I focused on learning and behaved, I wasn't really hindered or anything. An annoying thing about my school was that there were lots of courses we didn't have, and for some we did have it was only at a very low level. For example, Spanish. I would have taken Spanish but wasn't willing to take a lower-level course when I could achieve something more. But I know this wasn't necessarily because it wasn't a private school, because other schools around us got drama, psychology, classics, Latin, et cetera, and they were all public too - it's just a matter of staff availability.
In Scotland we don't have to pay tuition fees, which is great, obviously. I've been thinking about doing a second degree, and would like to do it somewhere else, spread my wings a bit, but the idea of having to pay still bugs me, when I could stay here in Scotland and do it for free. :\
