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[quote=glenda2007]
Students at private schools do not have to work any less to obtain the marks they do. Indeed their parents posess the funds to send their children to these schools. Their is no evidence suggesting that if these students went to a public school they would perform any worse.


So why the hell go to a private school? 13 grand at a minimum must give you something results wise! Otherwise why are parents working two jobs if their kid will do the same at a state school? I don't think it is for the blazer

I think oliver is uneccesarily angry but he has a point. While 99.95 is an amazing achievement i don't think you should get a free ride on your further education because you chose only to sleep two or three hours a night. What about those who devoted hours of a busy life to volunteering for those less fortunate, students who were the sole bread winner in their part time job for a whole family or cared for a sick parent. Kids in public school because there is no other option. There are scholarships but nothing of the fanfare or scope of the 'high achievers'
The VCE system favours an elite private school system because of the way it ranks students and how internal marks are decided. But as a state school kid who got 95+ doing humanities subjects, i just wryly smile as my fellow melbourne uni Arts kids who spent 13 years geared toward getting the number struggle in an academic world that doesn't spoon feed the way they are used to. Students who got the 99+ and amazing scholarships.
Of course this is a generalisation but it comes from first hand accounts of private school educated friends who can now admitt that they were pushed to a score.
I might not have got an amazing scholarship but i got other experiences and lessons out of my $250 education that i am sad my private school friends missed out on.