Education sucks.

[emsley]

Not sure what we're getting at in this thread, but I have an honours degree.

 

I had to actually really think about your question.

 

My education was an odd affair when I was young "middle schools" where still in effect and I remember there were 4 years to do at middle school.

You can see an old aerial photo here

http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?resourc...=2008523_166784

You can make out the primary school and the middle school, the middle school having 3 blocks.

I loved going to that school.

 

Then It all changed every thing was suddenly high school and middle schools were regarded as useless.

I hated high school, I tried to enjoy it and for the first two years I was in "top" classes, then I started getting migranes I was the only kid in the entire school who got these fuckers on a regular basis.

My schooling and attendance dipped and the last few years I was only there 70% of the time sometimes less.

I remember in my last years they put me in a combined dual class of geography and history instead of geography which I asked for.

 

i was then dumped In classes with all the kids who did not care about their schooling and by this point I became one of them. No longer was I scoring high in science tests or math tests the rot really hit me. Only in english did I pay attention and even then Hated reading about Romeo and Juliet preferring to write my own storeys.

Then in the final year I attended all my exams and failed miserably, but get this NO ONE in my year got high grades the school was branded WORST school in England for pass rates (this is true it was in the local paper)and over the next 3 years was shut down and turned into a "social centre for learning."

 

I guess Im trying to find blame to make my self feel better about not getting a reasonable education and ending up where I am now.

[The-Ice-Man]

Well I guess that kind of situation is why there are all these NVQ courses about nowadays. You can start right from level 1 which is the equivalent of a GCSE and go all the way to level 8 which is equivalent of a PHD, in whatever subject you want to do. I'm even doing an NVQ right now myself in IT. The Jobcentre put me forward for it coz I said I'm good with computers. It's only one day a week, I do it on my day off from work.