Is there any point sometimes? (2 Viewers)

[Ziff]

I'm not at school today. I didn't go. That might seem rebellious but it's not. I'm not at school because so far today I have already been infinitely more productive than when I do go to school.

I can go to school and be told by a teacher to read out a handout. I can go to school to make notes from a textbook. I can go to school to listen to "class discussion", which indisputably degrades into a bunch of stupid opinions that have no relevance to what we should be learning. I can go to school on no sleep and be tired off my arse, unable to comprehend anything - when I get home I am too tired to do anything. I can go to school and listen to a teacher totally misinterpret a poem then ask us to relate it to the elective statement - I have to go online that night to find out how to actually interpret the poem. Surprise! The internet's version actually relates to the elective statement!

I can stay at home. I can wake at 10. I can read the handouts (quicker than listening to someone read it out). I can make notes from a textbook. I can avoid class discussion and get straight to the answers by using the textbook or the internet. I can wake up refreshed and work hard till late into the night (if I'm pressed). I can find out the correct way to interpret the poem so that it actually links to what we're meant to be doing!

The one benefit of school is socialising, but when you only have about 1.5hrs of that - who cares?

 

[imsooverskool]

Originally posted by Ziff
I'm not at school today. I didn't go. That might seem rebellious

ooh u rebel u... lol just jokes

i actually agree with u coz wen i was @ skool i was far less productive then wen i was at the hell hole! the only problem in regard 2 staying @ home is having the motivation 2 actually do skool work!!! take stu vac before the hsc starts, I DIDNT STUDY!! wen i look bak it was stupid of me but meh at least i had a life

 

[perfectionist]

I think u did the correct thing Ziff

Oh well..dw, u are not the only one, i did that the WHOLE YEAR during HSC...when ever i had Physics/Eng/Chem last i used to take half day...or even stay at home to study...as there was no point...i put in my work..Business i could always catch up with the work...n yeah i really studied in Maths lessons...so yeah i think it's better to stay at home...rather than going to skool when it is a waste of time...at least at my skool it was like that.

 

[Seraph]

yea but if u stay at home too much u cant get a UAI apaprently or something like that

 

[Xayma]

You can have upto 20% which means 1/5 days you can do it.

 

[elizabethy]

i always took days off when i knew the teacher wasn't gonna do nething.........

 

[Josie]

Our very own rebellious Ziff.

You know I'll miss you in Modern... I'll kick your asssssss.
*grins*
Maybe not, but if I'm gonna be called the history nerd I need to up the ante!

 

[Xayma]

Originally posted by elizabethy
i always took days off when i knew the teacher wasn't gonna do nething.........

Yeah but you are only allowed 20% off.

 

[Ziff]

History is a subject that I enjoy and can learn from a textbook...

So whilst you're sitting in class reading over the textbook and being disrupted by Murray's one-liners trying to figure out what Kerensky was doing in America... I'll be at home going, "If only Kolontai was hotter... Maybe she was hot! That would explain how such an annoying aggitator didn't get purged... what a hottie!"

Then I will use that interpretation of history to gain 100% in Ext-Hist... The Ziff school of thought: that it's all about how hot you are

 

[krayziekarnevil]

wat skool u at in wollongong

 

[truly-in-bliss]

i took lyk 40 soemthing days off..... and i self learnt at home..

 

[Newbie]

its never good to think you are above your class or cohort or whatever

you piss the teachers off as well

so dont jig too much
and definately not because you think you can do more work at home

 

[kimmeh]

i find that if i miss one day of school i miss out on so much work even using the weekend i cant even catch up because all the work accumulates and kind of continues on from what i missed on. how gay and i know if i stay home, i wont get anything done. like i get anything done anywhere anyway

 

[MiuMiu]

That 20% thing is bullshit, when the new HSC came in the rules were changed and its left completely to the school's discretion.

 

[greeninsanity]

Ms. 12's right, it varies. I think my school has 15%...
I completely agree with you, ziff. I get absolutely nothing done at school. so, my attendance is irregular. best way to describe it...
I think the teachers are probably happier when i don't show up.

 

[Newbie]

mine was 15%
which amounted to 40.05 days i think
and i was on 40 days hohoho

 

[iambored]

Originally posted by Ziff
The one benefit of school is socialising, but when you only have about 1.5hrs of that - who cares?

and getting exam tips. but as long as you are working at home, taking some time off will be fine. school has A LOT of wasted time, waiting for teachers, for class mates, for people to stop talking, i would say a couple of hrs a day is wasted.

 

[overwhelming]

yeah the teacher's @ skool are clueless.

 

[ameh]

mainly i go to school bcos of the handouts and some explanations...but overall its just the handouts...if i would cope on a teacher in getting work done and learning i would fail the hsc....i say go interpendant learning

 

[abdooooo!!!]

im not at school... now... do i care... no.

some people want to go to school... they reckon its beneficial... but i know they just want to socialise. thats all i do at school when im there... talk. its when im at home that i actually learn stuff... school is a total waste of time, and there are others who pay money to go to sunday schools... wtf?!?! they are all idiots... spend the money on books to read at home if you really want to learn.