while selective schools value academic excellence, private schools teach values. Would you choose to go to a top private school if you're granted scholarship or would you go to a top selective school. What are your views on both. This is refering to Schools in NSW, Australia based on the 2008 HSC results =]
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Values? What are your parents for? I teach my kids the values I want them to have/understand. If they had a teacher who dared to contradict what I wanted taught I'd remove them from the class. Schools should teach. I'll teach values (or outsource it to my church). The educational system should educate.
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I went to your run of the mill public school. No that's a lie. I went to a good public school that was way out of area. No way in hell would my parents ever have let me go to my local public school. They chose the school I went to because it offered me the opportunities they thought I deserved. I was slightly musically inclined so they sent me to a school with a strong performing arts, sound academics and competent sport. And the school were nazi's about uniform and values and stuff. I believe i came out a well rounded and happy person. I came out with a 90 UAI and got into the course I wanted. I could not have asked for a better education. So I would say a top selective school. I'm at Sydney University now which is the breeding ground of the kids from the elite private schools. It's incredible how naive about everything they are. They're disgusted that they have to walk through Redfern and its "filth". My french partner is from the north shore and when I said I went to school at Woolooware she had no idea where it was. Which is fair enough. I then asked if she knew where Cronulla was and she just looked at me. I then asked if she knew where the airport was. Still she was lost. After sitting there for 30 seconds she asked me if Cronulla was out west. I mean jesus christ... If you go to James Ruse however you're going to be in an insanely competitive environment. I would hate that, I'm not an academic. But in saying that you're basically guaranteed a 95+ uai by going there. But i don't think it's worth it. I'll take my 90 uai and a high school education that was fun thanks.
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