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I'm so glad I found this forum, after reviewing many of the past posts most of my questions regarding completing the HSC at Tafe have been resolved. However, I have some questions which weren't answered, predominately about the Tafe environment, thus if anyone could answer them I would sincerely appreciate it.
To begin with, the only reason I am attending Tafe is because I have now been to 16 schools, 4 of which are high schools, and I'd like some stability for my final year of schooling. As I now need to change schools again because my parents are moving internationally again (they're diplomats) I think I would prefer to go to Tafe where programs are more uniform and OTEN/correspondence is always an option. I just graduated Year 11 in Indonesia from an American school and hold a Year 10 diploma from France. Therefore, I was hoping to gain credit for my Year 11 subjects at Tafe - or do I need to take the preliminary year again?
Also, I have some rather negative viewpoints of Tafe - all of which are stereotypes, e.g. people at Tafe are stupid, etc. and it has been refreshing to hear of these forums that these are not necessarily true. My parents aren't as, lets say, understanding and think that Tafe is the worst choice I could possibly make, and have threatened to disown me (wrong word, I know) if I attend Tafe. Basically I'm just trying to gather some honest impressions and opinions of the Tafe environment - e.g. yes, some people are stupid, but the classes are much more productive? Have a lot of diversity? My parents want me to go to boarding school, but I think that Tafe would be more suited to me (and I'd rather they give me $45000 to spend on clothes, then school). Ahh, summary: What is the typical Tafe HSC class like? What is the behavior of students?
I'm an openly gay male and I think I'm really flamboyant, plus I don't like people that I feel are inferior to me (unfortunately I can't change this attribute, it comes naturally) or aren't really preppy. And, to be really cliched, I intend on studying fashion design at university upon graduation from high school. So, how accepting would a typical Tafe campus be of a guy wearing shades, a fringed scarf, and bell-bottom jeans while unabashaedly toting a Gucci bag of James St. James/Michael Alig dimensions?
Furthermore, I really do want to make some friends at Tafe but given the environment - class schedules, etc. what is the likelihood of me having a core group (say 3 or 4 people) that I would recognise in multiple classes? Then the chance that I would like them, and if so, it was mutual - they liked me back as well. Unfortunately I have a tendency to alienate people or be kindof bitchy and people THINK I'm conceited (though I'm not), so I only need 2 people that I like to be comfortable (they can be straight or female, of course, I don't discriminate and I'm fairly open minded). I want friends at Tafe so, at a typical Tafe, how many meet my "criteria" or have similar traits to me?
I have so many more questions, but before I ask them I'd greatly appreciate your reply to my above-mentioned ones. Thanks again!
btw. If you're retarded, the reason I used bold text above was to highlight my main question.
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I'm so glad I found this forum, after reviewing many of the past posts most of my questions regarding completing the HSC at Tafe have been resolved. However, I have some questions which weren't answered, predominately about the Tafe environment, thus if anyone could answer them I would sincerely appreciate it.
To begin with, the only reason I am attending Tafe is because I have now been to 16 schools, 4 of which are high schools, and I'd like some stability for my final year of schooling. As I now need to change schools again because my parents are moving internationally again (they're diplomats) I think I would prefer to go to Tafe where programs are more uniform and OTEN/correspondence is always an option. I just graduated Year 11 in Indonesia from an American school and hold a Year 10 diploma from France. Therefore, I was hoping to gain credit for my Year 11 subjects at Tafe - or do I need to take the preliminary year again?
Also, I have some rather negative viewpoints of Tafe - all of which are stereotypes, e.g. people at Tafe are stupid, etc. and it has been refreshing to hear of these forums that these are not necessarily true. My parents aren't as, lets say, understanding and think that Tafe is the worst choice I could possibly make, and have threatened to disown me (wrong word, I know) if I attend Tafe. Basically I'm just trying to gather some honest impressions and opinions of the Tafe environment - e.g. yes, some people are stupid, but the classes are much more productive? Have a lot of diversity? My parents want me to go to boarding school, but I think that Tafe would be more suited to me (and I'd rather they give me $45000 to spend on clothes, then school). Ahh, summary: What is the typical Tafe HSC class like? What is the behavior of students?
I'm an openly gay male and I think I'm really flamboyant, plus I don't like people that I feel are inferior to me (unfortunately I can't change this attribute, it comes naturally) or aren't really preppy. And, to be really cliched, I intend on studying fashion design at university upon graduation from high school. So, how accepting would a typical Tafe campus be of a guy wearing shades, a fringed scarf, and bell-bottom jeans while unabashaedly toting a Gucci bag of James St. James/Michael Alig dimensions?
Furthermore, I really do want to make some friends at Tafe but given the environment - class schedules, etc. what is the likelihood of me having a core group (say 3 or 4 people) that I would recognise in multiple classes? Then the chance that I would like them, and if so, it was mutual - they liked me back as well. Unfortunately I have a tendency to alienate people or be kindof bitchy and people THINK I'm conceited (though I'm not), so I only need 2 people that I like to be comfortable (they can be straight or female, of course, I don't discriminate and I'm fairly open minded). I want friends at Tafe so, at a typical Tafe, how many meet my "criteria" or have similar traits to me?
I have so many more questions, but before I ask them I'd greatly appreciate your reply to my above-mentioned ones. Thanks again!
btw. If you're retarded, the reason I used bold text above was to highlight my main question.
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