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Spent most of my economics lesson laughing at this...

hahahaha...errr wait, school?

It's a place where people send their children to learn things.



last edited by Phooks at 21:03:49 23/May/09

Tell Hondroudakis or whoever the hell you have now that it's a valid means of interacting in a large-scale, simulated economy :P (or some other bulls*** like that)

How did you guess gesthemene? :p

We had a little s*** in our class the other day writing "labor = scum" on the board. He saw hondro coming, yelled out "OH s***", ran back to his desk and he tripped over the charger chord on Mr hondros comp. Both he and it fell to the ground, and hondro walked in.

You can imagine what happened next.

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angry grasshopper got angry? :)

So glad I never had him as a teacher... JJ Rhule was bad enough

that's a paddlin'

BGS = Big Girly School for boys wanting to grow up and be successful women.

I remember my school had similar s***.

People just used proxys.

People found proxys faster than they could ban them so it worked out good.

Phooks I'm going to give you a hot tip: if you use your own 3g device at school to access the site they can't really swing the suspension hammer.

There were 2g devices filtering in when I was there and there was no policy to handle it anyway.

Wait, everyone is laughing at Phooks for trying to access a WoW site right?

Am I missing the funnies? A school blocking a gaming/time-wasting website seems pretty standard to me.

I thought it was because of the fact he's still at school and has always been trying to convince everyone that has opinion matters.

It's because the WoW site is for "BSG Staff Only", not students.

It's a place where people send their children to learn things.

Obviously, not how to use apostrophes.

I remember back in grade 8 IT, we had ~10 of us in the back rows and we would surf porn the entire lesson... not softcore either, you could get onto anything you wanted.

Did this for about ~9 months, then one day the IT teacher showed us a prinout.

100's of pages, busted :(

One afternoon detention and that was the end of that.

I miss when everyone was naive about computers :(

A couple of the grades above us had Quake installed on the network so you could LAN anytime also :D

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Hundreds of pages of porn browsing logs when you are supposed to be working, and you got one afternoon's detention?

Yep, every single IT class for the entire year.

There was some pretty hardcore stuff in the logs too, even by todays standards.

Our teacher read the entire list out in front of the class (didn't say WHO was browsing, but everyone knew) for like 20 minutes, plenty of lolz.

I honestly don't think the year coordinator knew how to react, most of the teachers didn't even use computers. This is back 2000.

These days you would get owned.

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Obviously, not how to use apostrophes.

This isn't even a sentence.

You're right that Word considers it a fragment of a sentence, but I think it communicates what it needed to.

but I think it communicates what it needed to

Because failed use of an apostrophe on a gaming forum impedes communication, yeh..

What other sites are banned ?
Do they have a list you can view or is it secret ?

if you use your own 3g device at school to access the site they can't really swing the suspension hammer.

The IT department actually have a pretty extensive system set up. I've got no clue what a 3g device is, but when i see the guys with laptops at school try to connect with wireless they need to log into it with their school ID. Does 3g go through a different service to connect to the net or something?

everyone is laughing at Phooks for trying to access a WoW site right?

Don't play it.

I thought it was because of the fact he's still at school and has always been trying to convince everyone that has opinion matters.

Not quite sure what you mean by that, but f*** you?

but I think it communicates what it needed to.

"Hypocrisy is the act of being less critical of oneself than of others. A well-known example is the smoker criticising someone else for smoking"

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Does 3g go through a different service to connect to the net or something?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3G

I remember back in grade 8 IT, we had ~10 of us in the back rows and we would surf porn the entire lesson... not softcore either, you could get onto anything you wanted.

A bunch of kids at the back of class batting off to some chick fking a dog... sounds classy.

... and they say schools dont teach life-sklls.

... and they say schools dont teach life-sklls.

another sterling addition to the thread from faceman! Completely useless comment..

I finished at grammar in 02. I had JJ rhule as my biology teacher for three years. The bastard retired at the end of 02 so we had to put up with him in his last year. God he was an a******.

My I.T classes at grammar were a joke. They taught us how to use office packages we all already knew how to use. There was one game going around the network, Mario - we all played it. :-).

You don't learn life skills at a private school, that's reserved for those who attended the state system and survived, lol.

You don't learn life skills at a private school, that's reserved for those who attended the state system and survived, lol.

Depends what your definition of "life skills" is. Do you know what it is like to go to an all boys school? It is actually a lot more wild than most state schools. When their are no girls around boys tend to find other things to focus on in the schoolyard (and no thats not a gay joke you f***ers!).

I have nothing against the state school system, but for those of us who did go to a private school I believe academically you get what you pay for. For example Brisbane Grammar School has topped the state for highest OP average plenty of times. I know they did in 02.

So I am going to have to say your comment is fairly transparent and incorrect.

Tiny quit CyberBullying me or Im gonna tell the teacher about you.

It is actually a lot more wild than most state schools.

You wouldn't know the half of it. Try going to the roughest school imaginable then triple it. That's what a state high school fed by a housing commission area is like, of which in my day Camp Hill High was the pinnacle. Luckily we had brains and a will to overcome the hardest climb you can ever make, out of poverty. So don't try and give me that s*** about how hard it is at a private school.

No school is a normal environment to raise a person in. Compare your own school life to your life now. Nevermind what you imagine the real world to be. School life isn't very representative of your future.

^ agree. Life is made up of many contributing factors none the least is participation in the world without the protection of and provisions by, parents.

Depends what your definition of "life skills" is. Do you know what it is like to go to an all boys school? It is actually a lot more wild than most state schools. When their are no girls around boys tend to find other things to focus on in the schoolyard (and no thats not a gay joke you f***ers!).

I went to a GPS school down the road from BGS, and I am going to have to disagree with what you said there. Sure there's always a few kids who don't care, but the majority of students there knew that their parents were paying $$$ for them to go there, and didn't f*** around too much.

Compare that to a state school where almost no one gives a f***...

"Hypocrisy is the act of being less critical of oneself than of others. A well-known example is the smoker criticising someone else for smoking"

in that example it is, but there is a fine line between hypocracy and well-informed advice.

It is actually a lot more wild than most state schools.

You've got to be kidding me. State school system is 200x more f***ed up than ours.

Not only do those kids have virtually no workload, they get themselves into so much s*** it's not funny.

As with school preparing you for life I agree with Fat Bastard.

Just for the record, so you don't get worried. I went to school in the state system, however I send my son (high school) to a private school (Iona). Why? Cause I have a desire to work hard in ensuring what I endured as a kid is not what they have to go through in life and I feel providing these additional opportunities to my children will give me a greater chance of that not happenning. Still it's down to the kids themselves in the end but I want to do my bit in helping.

BTW my daughters are in primary school and I send them (as I did my son) to a state primary school. I feel it better to invest in private high schooling as this tends to have a greater bearing on life-long values and possibly success so the girls will be going to private high schools too.

I also work very hard to instill in my children an understanding of compassion, inclusion and community for those less fortunate and that's not always easy when they attend a private school and gain views from "some" of, not all and I hope not the majority, the other students.

I would gladly send him to a state school if I thought he had the self-discipline to succeed at school, alas he doesn't and I find that a private education pushes him harder.

The difference for me and the kids I went to school with at Camp Hill High (now Whites Hill College) was we were determined to succeed and work hard to ensure we had opportunities our parents didn't have. Remember education in the 30's and 40's wasn't available to everyone especially from a rural background, which my parents were from. My mother went to grade 3 and was then required to work on the dairy farm, my father grade 7 then sent to work as a jackaroo in the channel country.

All my friends at school wanted to provide something back to the people that helped us, like our parents (in my case my mother as our father left us when I was 5) and the State for providing us the opportunity to get a decent education. You can only do so by becoming highly educated.

We used to play quake, and elasto mania at school. we even got cs on one time but it was harder to hide (no window mode like quake).

We just used to put games in a folder and rename it somethingsomething.dat (same file as our saved Typequick sessions) they never knew a thing. Although I wonder why they never cared about 800MB typequick files.

One of my mates did an IT apprenticeship with our IT admin while at school, so had access to everything. On the last day of school some of us changed the background image of every school pc to goatse. Noone was ever caught, it was done from the IT admin's user log in, and he often left the door open while visiting the IT staffroom.

Was win.

you wana know a way to get around filters? get the head of ITs login who is also the network admin for your school... oh man the s*** we could have done but didn't.... damn morals

Iona FTW.

^ yeah, I really like the school. I just wish my son would get more of his act together. For someone extremely intelligent all he gets is B's (- and +) with a couple of C's when he has the ability to get A's. For instance he's a whizz at computers (he's had one since he was 5) yet he only manages a B- for ICT and his teacher said at the Parent/Teacher interview 2 weeks ago that he is way more capable than that. You should read his behaviour/attitude results, woeful, he got a couple of D's (the little bastard, lol).

Anyway Iona has been nothing but good for him. I dread how he would go in a State School due to his propensity to muck up and be the class clown.

I get the feeling a lot of teachers just lazily give everyone Bs and Cs because it is easier than actually reading the assignments and having to decide who to give As and Ds to.

It's not just a feeling, I am pretty sure this happens with some teachers, based on the sorts of marks I would get in comparison to other people. Plus I'm not an idiot, and I can tell if the teacher is a lazy marker.

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Iona ftl.

anywat, ICT/IPT as it was when i went through, is a horrible class with poor teaching structures and a confused curriculumn.

I went onto do IT at uni, and do extremely well, but the cluster f*** of confusion that was IT at high school left me getting only a C on it.

They really don't have time to go into any topic in any depth, and as its not taught from grade 8 up like science of math, you only have 2 years to touch on some topics with no basic knowledge having been taught. Mix that up with the fact that IT has many many different topics........ yeah, its a horrible mess in every high school iv'e ever heard about.

can't speak for all schools, but i know mine at kenmore high had a f***ing s*** IT course, we knew more then our teacher who actually asked the kids for advice half the f***ing time, any IT teacher generally can't give a f*** from my experience.

that said, your son sounds like me... i half arsed school till it mattered for my final s*** (year 11/12) after that i just got B's / As... even then though i could have pulled more As out if i actually studied instead of just paid attention :)

we knew more then our teacher who actually asked the kids for advice half the f***ing time

At BBC our IT course was partially a book from 1989 and a program that microsoft had decided to give away for free because they couldn't be bothered finishing it. When we came up with a solution which wasn't in the teachers handguide, we were marked down (be it right or wrong). Feel lucky that your teacher had an open enough mind, even if it wasn't smart.