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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38  Posts: 405/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Of cource americans arn't dumb... look at their grading system | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
blackfire Paragoomba Level: 14 Posts: 16/66 EXP: 12755 For next: 316 Since: 04-15-04 Since last post: 536 days Last activity: 339 days |
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I like Australias grading system. It may be a bit more complicated than the American one but its still good. Being in a differn't part of Australia to Rin we start highschool in year 7. Primary School (Grade 1-6) High School (7-12). It really depends on what part of Australia your in. I know that a highschool in South Australia goes from years 7 to 13. Like Tinzeee i get 6 classes a day. They go for 48 minits. This really depends on the school your at. I have a friend that lives about 2 hours drive away from me and her school has 7 periods a day. |
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Colleen Administrator Level: 136 Posts: 941/11302 EXP: 29369328 For next: 727587 Since: 03-15-04 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Since last post: 3 hours Last activity: 1 hour |
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Geez, Tom... since when do schools have lunch followed by recess?  Here's how it went for me... Elementary: 3 periods, lunch, 3 periods. Monday to Friday cycle. High School: In Grades 7-8 it was 3 periods, lunch, 3 periods. After that it was 4 periods, lunch, 2 periods. 7-day cycle. CEGEP/College: When I finished it I was taking 6-7 classes a semester. At least one class a day, and one day I had 4 in a 6-hour block.  Never again.As well, in High School classes were set. We had two classes we could pick (out of Chemistry, Physics, Art, Drama and maybe another one) and everything else was set in stone from Day 1. |
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spncram Shyguy Level: 16 Posts: 71/83 EXP: 18481 For next: 1775 Since: 03-15-04 From: USA Since last post: 495 days Last activity: 278 days |
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Originally posted by (No) Vacancy! wow |
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Silvershield Slime Level: 30 Posts: 60/345 EXP: 153029 For next: 12840 Since: 04-11-04 From: New Jersey Since last post: 60 days Last activity: 6 hours |
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Originally posted by MEL4MODWow, talk about a prime example of teen angst, and a wasted post to boot  . |
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Ayame Goomba Level: 9 Posts: 20/21 EXP: 2318 For next: 844 Since: 04-01-04 Since last post: 564 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| Hmmm well... My schedule is... 1st period- U.S History 2nd period- 2D Art 3rd period- Biology 4th period- American Literature 5th period- Spanish 2 6th period- Geometry I go to a public school... I learn a lot of shit.... I'm getting like a 3.0 or a bit higher... Yeah.. Science and English are holding me down... *Growls* I hate those classes...  So.... I hope I don't come off stupid to anyone here.... Because I know I'm not.. |
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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38 Posts: 412/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| The subjects i have are listed: - drama - information and technology - business services/studies - english standard - music - religion ( since i go to a catholic school ) and we also get study periods in australia, or like americas call them, study hall |
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Drag Flurry  I don't post anymore! o_O Level: 26  Posts: 113/254 EXP: 98946 For next: 3329 Since: 03-15-04 From: Deogon Vally, Dragon Country Since last post: 316 days Last activity: 44 days |
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Okay, here's some of my schedules, and my comments:
There. Make what sense out of that as you will. Bigass post of mine too.  This is my biggest post on this board. |
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blackfire Paragoomba Level: 14 Posts: 20/66 EXP: 12755 For next: 316 Since: 04-15-04 Since last post: 536 days Last activity: 339 days |
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Lets think I have Stupid PE Advanced Maths Advanced Science And belive it or not Advanced English (i'm still unsure as to how i got in there) Geography Commerce Electronics Religion (stupid cathlic school) Yer i think thats it |
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Utilityman Like Like Level: 44  Posts: 627/813 EXP: 566605 For next: 44680 Since: 03-15-04 Since last post: 353 days Last activity: 4 days |
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Originally posted by Drag My thoughts exactly. Later on in high school here they introduced 'Fitness' that people could take in place of PE, which was more focused around exercise and the science of fitness, which I enjoyed far more - no goddamn sports, no superhuman teachers yelling at you because you can't windsprint for 20 minutes, just a small group of friendly people and the weight room. We also did a little bit of yoga and aerobics later on. Best of all, you could work at your own pace. (edited by Utilityman on 04-17-04 01:40 AM) |
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tinzeee Permaban Repeated warnings and bannings about stupidity Level: 38 Posts: 416/618 EXP: 369695 For next: 752 Since: 04-02-04 From: Australia - Sydney Since last post: 553 days Last activity: 339 days |
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| I hear that in america you have to do Jim ( like pe ) is it compolosry like here in australia, because we have to do pe till year 11 and 12 and we can drop it I find no point or reason into doing pe  |
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Mel (USER WAS TOTALLY AWESOME FOR THIS POST) Level: 47  Posts: 178/991 EXP: 762490 For next: 3713 Since: 03-15-04 From: secure tripcodes are for jerks Since last post: 17 min. Last activity: 16 min. |
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Originally posted by SilvershieldOriginally posted by MEL4MODWow, talk about a prime example of teen angst, and a wasted post to boot On another note, I'm a tortured soul that likes to continuously cut his wrists and is a vampire with a trenchcoat and black hair with purple highlights and pentagrams all over his backpack. GOTH RULEZ ROFL!11111 |
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Kwan Doesn't have a valid sized userpic. ||bass will be pissed :(((((((( Level: 50  Posts: 296/1137 EXP: 937111 For next: 10206 Since: 03-15-04 From: Durkadurkastan! Since last post: 22 days Last activity: 2 days |
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Originally posted by spncram |
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Arwon Zora Level: 35  Posts: 30/506 EXP: 278115 For next: 1821 Since: 03-15-04 From: Terra Australis Incognita Since last post: 5 hours Last activity: 10 min. |
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Originally posted by tinzeee "Gym." There's a certain amount of PE course credits you need over the four years of high school, in order to graduate. You can fulfill these credits in a variety of ways and I think they add up to either 2 or 3 years of PE type classes. |
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Apple Kodondo Level: 38 Posts: 74/594 EXP: 350163 For next: 20284 Since: 03-27-04 From: Washington. Since last post: 264 days Last activity: 152 days |
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| High school classes I took... (Only putting the ones I spent more than a month in, because otherwise it would be way to fucking long) Freshman year: Fall Trimester - Drafting - 80 minutes. Pretty cool class. You drew plans for houses and shit. I sucked at it though and I don't know how I got a 61% (Think it was because the teacher was the teacher i had in preschool). - Geometry 1 - 100 minutes. Easy. The teacher had the intelligence (sp?) of a retarded ape - Transwriting - 80 minutes. Retard writing. Pretty much. I got about a 60% in all my writing and Literature classes (which is bad) so they put me in transwriting. - Science - 80 minutes. Not sure what the science class was exactly Winter Trimester - Freshman Literature. Same as above really. just the people weren't as stupid - Geometry 2. Same as above - wightlifting - Typing Spring. - world geography - science - Freshman Literature 2 - Health In freshman year, I moved twice (got kicked out, got kicked out of where I went). I went to a school for about 3 weeks where i took shit like history, and drama but i moved back to my old school. not adding short term classes Sophmore year - Sophmore English 1 - Sophmore English 2 - Freshman literatrue 2 - Biogoly 1 - biology 2 - cooking - Trig (Which turned in to advanage algerbra since they combined the courses) - Adv. Alg. 2 - Health - World history - World History II - Economics??? Really don't remember. Ok. I only took cooking for about 7 weeks. Before that, I was in spanish but got kicked out. My stepmom kicked me out of the house so I was out of school that first term. Only went to school a whooping 3 months junior year since I dropped out for most of it, and those months I was there I was coming to like once a week. Senior year (Indepent Study student at an ALP). These are the classes I took so far. - Sophmore English - Us history III - US history IV - World History - Ancient History - PE - PE - American literature - World Literature - Intergraded math (since I failed alg1) - Algebra II - Geography I think thats right. I'm still trying to figure out how I could go from av algebra and trig to doing very simple algebra problems. I passed both AA and Trig classes with solid B's (85%). Oh well. Middle school was a joke. High school wasn't much better. They only teach the basics. Sometimes a teacher will go out a limb and try to teach something good but no. the students will go apeshit, refuse to do their homework and fail the test. Than we as the class have to spend another month relearning shit we learned many times before. In Algebra, we spent half the term on one chapter. It was pathetic. History until senior year, was worse. The world war II chapters actually refered to the Allies and the Axis as "The good guys" and "those evil people" and apparently. Japan diddn't do nothing at all between the years 1941 and 1945. And they diddn't even exist as a country before 1941 (they never mentioned them in the wwi section or anything about them attacking china). The american civil war was crap in the history book. The world history book spent 5 chapters (yes, 5) over egypt. AND NOT ONCE DID THEY MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT EYGPT INTERACTING WITH ANOTHER CIVILIZATION! I hate history books. So glad i never have to deal with them now (besides for US history, but the book is a good one though. It actually makes the US look like normal people other than super hero godlike country). |
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| My schooling has always gone with the A,B,C,D,E,F grading. I normally get A,B,C's. PE was the subjected i most hated, Art being my favorite. Year 11 and 12 is the best, as you get to pick your own subjects Teachers seem to teach less and less. |
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| Here's my classes: 1 - Torture 2 - More Torture 3 - Whipping 4 - Chum (lunch) 5 - More torture 6, 7, 8 - Boredom |
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Bella Ludwig Von Koopa You're Gonna Love Me Level: 76  Posts: 98/2962 EXP: 3891483 For next: 114577 Since: 03-29-04 From: Groovy Way Since last post: 8 min. Last activity: 6 min. |
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| Hmm..as of right now I have (Junior year in High School) English 11 Algebra II Health 11 1 semester Computer Technology (that other semester) U.S History Chemistry AP (which sucks...damn class I'm failing and won't pass) Spanish 3 I have to have 2 years of PE to graduate and I need one more semester that I need to take. It was okay. I kinda liked it..I hated our runs All of my classes has always on a grading scale from A to F. We have Fitness. Never took it. They had a rule where if everyone could run their mile under 10 minutes then they wouldn't have to run the mile for a month I think..not sure..so I said forget that. My best time was 9:59. That was my best year in running too. My time from when I got in High school went from 12:00 to 10 minutes and above. I would have gotten better but oh well . |
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Silvershield Slime Level: 30 Posts: 63/345 EXP: 153029 For next: 12840 Since: 04-11-04 From: New Jersey Since last post: 60 days Last activity: 6 hours |
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Originally posted by AppleI'm all for objectivity in school history texts, but naming the Allies as the "good guys" and the Axis as the "bad guys" really does not sound too far off from the truth. I don't care how much you (that's a general "you," not you personally, Apple) love Japan - a mass phenomenon that I still don't understand - but they did execute a dastardly sneak attack on American soil to draw us into the war. Likewise, even if you are German yourself, you must concede that German actions during the war epitomized evil. Perhaps the Allies weren't shining beacons of morality either, but they were more deserving of being called the "good guys" than their enemies. Once again, it's not right to use such titles in a history book, but you shouldn't sound as if you can't understand where the writer is coming from with it. In regards to physical education, I've never had much of a problem with it. The jocks tend to come into their own in gym (as they really cannot shine in any other environment  ), increasing their testosterone-fueled malignance, but I can deal with it. I never much enjoyed the periodic, compulsory mile run, but it wasn't terrible. Truly, I look forward to phys ed every day: volleyball, dodgeball, hockey, and the like are tons of fun. |
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Apple Kodondo Level: 38 Posts: 75/594 EXP: 350163 For next: 20284 Since: 03-27-04 From: Washington. Since last post: 264 days Last activity: 152 days |
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Originally posted by SilvershieldOriginally posted by AppleI'm all for objectivity in school history texts, but naming the Allies as the "good guys" and the Axis as the "bad guys" really does not sound too far off from the truth. I don't care how much you (that's a general "you," not you personally, Apple) love Japan - a mass phenomenon that I still don't understand - but they did execute a dastardly sneak attack on American soil to draw us into the war. Likewise, even if you are German yourself, you must concede that German actions during the war epitomized evil. Perhaps the Allies weren't shining beacons of morality either, but they were more deserving of being called the "good guys" than their enemies. Once again, it's not right to use such titles in a history book, but you shouldn't sound as if you can't understand where the writer is coming from with it. I'm not in to this japanese craze. I have a bit of german in me but that has nothing to do with anything. Its wrong for a history book to say one side is evil and the other is good. Espically if they don't even call them Allies or Axis at all through out the book. |
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