Important - Please Read (2 Viewers)

[Crazy Horse]

Diana finds herself smiling - very encouraging!

 

[kami]

Evan says his teacher bullied everyone even immigrants to participate in Advanced. There were only 9 people to undertake standard and they all also did fundamentals

 

[jhakka]

Justin's Extension 2 class started off with 11 people and finished with 13.

 

[kami]

Justin's Extension 2 class started off with 11 people and finished with 13.

How??? The magnetic force that is it being the only highly scaled humanities sub must have done it

 

[illodous]

Matt's jaw drops onto the ground. That amazes Matt. He has never heard of anything that goes past 2.

 

[jhakka]

Actually they dropped Ext 1 Maths to do it. In any case, of the 13, 12 finished their works. Not a bad result.



Justin wonders if everyone else finds Ext 2 students who can't think for themselves frustrating. He is getting really annoyed by the whole "Do you think it's too risky to put the word 'bum'/political references/song lyrics/two protagonists in my work?" routine. [first person]I mean, seriously, think for yourselves. Just write your work and don't worry about every detail. Odds are the marker really doesn't give a damn and wouldn't recognise talent even if it was staring them in the face.[/first person]

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana would just like to say that she attended an Extension 2 study day in November and the speaker mentioned that he had 58 students !!! Diana nearly had a heart attack!

 

[glitterfairy]

Lynn wonders whether the speaker was a Mr David Eldridge, one of Lynn's english teachers (she would not be suprised if they had 58 for this year)

Lynn thinks it is prudent to point out that she thinks many selective schools like her own start off with many EE2 students, but the numbers do drop after the first term or two.

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana agrees with Justin.

 

[kami]

Diana would just like to say that she attended an Extension 2 study day in November and the speaker mentioned that he had 58 students !!! Diana nearly had a heart attack!

Not in one class he didn't, the record is in the 20s for a non-selective and possibly high 40s for selective

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana would like to say that he was from an all girls school and she will go find out. (she has the paper still - needed it for journal!!)

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana would like to inform Lynn she is correct David Elridge from Hornsby Girls High!!

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana wonders at the amount of attention each student recieves at schools like that??

 

[kami]

Diana would like to inform Lynn she is correct David Elridge from Hornsby Girls High!!

Does this now make Lynn some kind of celebrity?
Edit: Evan has been told by someone who did both double ext at NSGHS that they basically just pressure a person alot more but not much attention which is needed with extensions.

 

[glitterfairy]

Lynn now laughs semi-hysterically.

BABOON! She shrieks in a fit of madness... lol. Lynn is now contemplating emailing Mr Eldridge, just for old time's sake...

Lynn now laughs semi-hysterically.

BABOON! She shrieks in a fit of madness... lol. Lynn is now contemplating emailing Mr Eldridge, just for old time's sake...

EDIT:

In response to Diana's question, HGHS is suprisingly good in terms of making sure each student gets enough attention - although it may help that they are quite small (120 students). Mr Eldridge's classes in particular are more like university lectures than anything else, and thus Hornsby Girls are expected to really learn their work and understand it. Most teachers there go the extra mile for their students, giving out email addresses, home phone numbers, mobile phone numbers... even home addresses on occassion (and are more than willing to talk outside of class). HGHS also prepares their students quite well - particularly in the case of the EE1 Retreat From The Global module (as Mr E wrote it). It also helps that most if not all of the english teachers are markers, with Mr E being a Senior Marker that tells everyone else what to look for.

We also get amusing anecdotes about Mr E's life every now and again... he is quite eccentric at times, but very intelligent, if a little intimidating.

In response to Evan's question, Lynn remarks that if he were to be in her company for five minutes, any thoughts of her being a "celebrity" of sorts would completely fly out of the window. For example - at the last IPR get-together, Justin and Marcus spent the better part of their time throwing bits of bread and sticks at her.

EDIT: In reply to Diana's post below, not only did Lynn go to a Selective school, but she went to the english-obsessed Hornsby Girls, who came 4th according to the Daily Telegraph (which is the one that takes into account ration of students and credits). WE BEAT BARKER AND BAULKO!! MUAHAHAHA!

 

[Crazy Horse]

Diana is impressed. Lynn went to a selective school

 

[kami]

Diana is impressed. Lynn went to a selective school

Evan puffs himself up and informs Diana that back in the day he went to a selective school. A crap selective but a selective nonetheless.

 

[illodous]

Matt belches. All those Aero bars are going to his tummy

Oh. Sorry. Anti-climax I am.

 

[kami]

Matt belches. All those Aero bars are going to his tummy

Oh. Sorry. Anti-climax I am.

For some reason there is an absolutely foul smell coming from the monitor.

 

[illodous]

Matt checks his shoe, underarms and underwear.

Wasn't me!

*grins*