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  1. Scott No Mates

    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    IIRC, Bond Uni in Qld started as a private uni back in the 1980's (still is a not for profit/private uni).
     
    Scott No Mates, 25th Jan, 2022
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    St Clumsys (St Columbas Primary School, Bayswater, WA)
    Corn Beef & Cabbage (CBC Bedford, WA- evil narcissitic Brothers)
    North Kalgoorlie PS - semi normal
    Eastern Goldfields SHS ( aka EG pre-detention centre)
    Cyril Jackson SHS (aka who the f*** was CJ **** sch**l)
    WAIT (aka Curtin Uni)

    But I turned out alright ........ or did I ........?
     
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  3. Scott No Mates

    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    Well at least it wasn't named after Rex Jackson, ex-NSW Prisons Minister (who ended up in one).
     
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  4. The Y-man

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    That is awesome!! Thank you for funding Uni employees like me :p

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  5. AsburyJuke

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    :D:D:D:D:D
     
    AsburyJuke, 26th Jan, 2022
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  6. geoffw

    geoffw Moderator Staff Member

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    Government schools
    Uni. Started just as Whitlam government introduced free tertiary ed. My final uni exam was taking place at the same time the Dismissal took place. So I fitted into a time of no fees, no HECS/HELP tertiary education.
     
    geoffw, 26th Jan, 2022
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    I sense pain in your post at your parents attitude, sounds a bit like my father who thought educating girls beyond leaving age was a waste of time as they would marry and have husbands to look after them... :(
     
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  8. Scott No Mates

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    At least someone got it. ;)
     
    Scott No Mates, 26th Jan, 2022
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  9. maroon

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    Gee, that's like downgrading from Toorak to Frankston :p
     
    maroon, 26th Jan, 2022
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    same here

    thank you Mr Whitlam
     
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  11. Scott No Mates

    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    What's wrong with the University of Flanno & Ugh Boots (Peninsula Campus)?
     
    Scott No Mates, 26th Jan, 2022
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    Funny stuff
     
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    These two were not easy to get into. You must be a smart boy! :)
     
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  14. The Y-man

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    Nah - IMHO it's much more competitive to get in these days.

    As for uni .... well - I haven't told you what course I got into! Might have been Datto's agronomy course :D:D:D

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    The Y-man, 26th Jan, 2022
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  15. spoon

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    I have found qualification from this School is most important to me. Hopefully a PhD... :D

    I think we are all alumni?

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  16. The Y-man

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    So when we get people posting here looking for PPOR in a good school zone, should this be the one we direct them to? :cool:

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    The Y-man, 26th Jan, 2022
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    University of Melbourne can't have been especially exclusive. They let me in!
     
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  18. The Y-man

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    On a more serious note - there were at least 3 I know of that got into MHS (selective entry for those who are not familiar) from my year level at BHHS (now FSC) - and I'm sure more of them would have got in if they tried, because I wasn't the smartest cookie around. So I think it says something about the school - yet we don't see FSC being held up on the pedestal with the likes of some nearby schools like Glen Waverley, Vermont and East Doncaster from a "performance" aspect (typically based on Year 12 achievements)

    Then the really interesting thing was when I got to uni - at one of the allegedly highest performing Unis around - my classmates were from all sorts of high schools. I mean there were the ones you'd expect from the "top tier" as @Tony3008 put it - privates schools like Scotch, Wesley, Haileybury, Xavier, Melb Grammar...), but the most academically highest performer (by far) of my cohort came from a state high school that I have *never* heard anyone wanting to send their kids to. One classmate was even a friend from Mulgrave I went to primary school with, and had gone onto Wellington SC.

    And this brings me to the crux of the matter - when someone asks about wanting their PPOR in a "good school zone" - is it more about perception? Are most schools pretty much "good", other than the few that are challenged with some socio-economic issue at a certain time/place? Or have times indeed changed, and "life has become harder" for kids?

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    The Y-man, 26th Jan, 2022
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  19. Tony3008

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    At uni (first time round) I did Estate Management/Building Surveying which attracted a higher than normal proportion of students from fee-paying schools (and [1971] a 200:12 male:female intake!). There was also a high dropout rate at the end of year one which I put down to the different teaching environment - those from 'hot-house' schools, perhaps aided by tutors, had been pushed whilst at school and and now, left to their own devices, didn't put the work in, whilst those from less privileged backgrounds were more motivated and self-disciplined. Big generalisation I know.
     
    Tony3008, 26th Jan, 2022
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  20. spoon

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    I think good work ethics and valuing education as a priority. Good public schools are basically good because of the students and often because families' beliefs in what are important in life. :)

    Of course that's only an hypothesis...
     
    spoon, 26th Jan, 2022
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