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Some want a free college education? Please tell me how serious they took their free high school education.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Seriously enough to know an adverb or adjective when I see one...
It was not "high school" here (UK), but until the huge change to "Comprehensive Education" - marred by a lot of local politicking in some boroughs - we went from Primary School to either a Secondary Modern, or a Grammar, School, depending on a rather arbitrary test at age 11 of our educational aptitude.
In either case it was always free to the family (paid for from national tax revenues), and still is though now via contractors pretentiously calling the ordinary schools they operate, "academies" or "colleges". I think they should have stayed State-owned!
How seriously you took your education was very much down to us; and that is still the case of course, irrespectively of school type. It evidently worked for most of my widely-ranging circles of friends and relatives, because they have followed formal trade training or further education; with very many having graduated from university with at least a Degree.
(I didn't go to university, but that was because even if I had wanted to do, and despite attending a local Grammar School and taking the education seriously, I was not bright enough to have gained the requisite "Advanced Level" examination passes at age 17-18, as foundation qualifications.)
Few in Britain have had a private education, i.e. in the "Public Schools", because those are and always were very expensive. Unless you are lucky enough to gain a Bursary your parents have to pay all the tuition, accommodation and staff fees.
It was not "high school" here (UK), but until the huge change to "Comprehensive Education" - marred by a lot of local politicking in some boroughs - we went from Primary School to either a Secondary Modern, or a Grammar, School, depending on a rather arbitrary test at age 11 of our educational aptitude.
In either case it was always free to the family (paid for from national tax revenues), and still is though now via contractors pretentiously calling the ordinary schools they operate, "academies" or "colleges". I think they should have stayed State-owned!
How seriously you took your education was very much down to us; and that is still the case of course, irrespectively of school type. It evidently worked for most of my widely-ranging circles of friends and relatives, because they have followed formal trade training or further education; with very many having graduated from university with at least a Degree.
(I didn't go to university, but that was because even if I had wanted to do, and despite attending a local Grammar School and taking the education seriously, I was not bright enough to have gained the requisite "Advanced Level" examination passes at age 17-18, as foundation qualifications.)
Few in Britain have had a private education, i.e. in the "Public Schools", because those are and always were very expensive. Unless you are lucky enough to gain a Bursary your parents have to pay all the tuition, accommodation and staff fees.
Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
@ArishMell A major issue today is the soaring costs of education, I remember the year Cameron came in following Brown they upped the price of university by thousands, it was the year I finished high school.
I'm doing university now but it put me off a lot at that age. Less able to afford education, the less high skill workers, the worse the economy, the more outsourcing we do for staff like doctors.
I'm doing university now but it put me off a lot at that age. Less able to afford education, the less high skill workers, the worse the economy, the more outsourcing we do for staff like doctors.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@Ryannnnnn Indeed, with university education, although you are not expected to repay the Student Loan until earning above a certain threshold - so does that deter ambition?
Universities are still busy so it has not deterred people from further education; but having gained that degree (or Masters, or PhD) then embarked on a career hopefully using it, do many then prefer to stay at relatively modest levels professionally?
Universities are still busy so it has not deterred people from further education; but having gained that degree (or Masters, or PhD) then embarked on a career hopefully using it, do many then prefer to stay at relatively modest levels professionally?
Ryannnnnn · 31-35, M
@ArishMell likely not, though rn maintenance loans being far under inflation, and students pushed into the costly private rental market due to the severe lack of housing is certainly an issue, though a different one.
An issue for renters in general tbh as even less options for none students atm.
An issue for renters in general tbh as even less options for none students atm.