In my opinion he was a liar. After my studies of him it became obvious he just couldn't have not known about camp Dora and what was going on. He just spent a lot of his life manipulating the truth for his personal gain and to escape the hangman's noose.
Without war related stuff on TV kids these days wouldn't barley know that WW1 and WW2 existed. Let's face it, most of their education comes from TV and videogames... The future generation needs to see reality.
Re: What's Yr 12 Modern like?
I found WW1 trenchlife simple but boring.. later it gets much more dificult and you'll wish you were still doing trenchlife. Just don't loose focus, afterall it helps in later modern history.
Create a program that teachers would use. They seem to mark stuff like that high. Maybe make a program that assigns class seating plans... although the marks probally won't be worth the next few weeks of abuse from your fellow classmates =P
i'm supprised that our school even still has a muckup day.. im in a private school with the strictest head of senior school.. its prob because the last 5 years of muckup days have been so original that we still have a muck up day. Not long till our turn ;) we are in year 11 and starting to plan...
i know somone who has come down from ext 2 maths down to general and was getting about 65% on avg in tests in the ext 2 but now in gen he seems to get around 50%.. strange?
i attend Tafe and i see quite a few people who don't realy care much for their work... you get a lot of public school students who just go there because it sounds fun and because the government pays almost everything... but thats my view