Im new to blogging so i thought that i'd start with something highly menial: exams. they have utterly consumed my entire life for the past month or so and in another months time, i shall never have to go into a classroom for two months over summer. today i had maths (2hours) and then spanish (reading and listening)(1hour). oh the joys of teenagerhood. i guess the fact that i go to private school, is half negative and half positive but i feel there is no difference between the education i recieve and a state school pupil recieves. "How the other half learns" highlights the fact that the state school pupils felt that the rules at the private school were too relaxed, says it all. the schools involved- Wells Cathedral School in somerset is a good small public school but those state school pupils (from Preston Manor School in Wembley) would have felt FAR more less at home if they had been at Malborough, a highly intimidating, large public school.
myself, i go to a london all-girls private school and after talking to a parent of a state school pupil, i feel that they are being pushed further and have more encouragment. we are expected to do the work ourselves and have "independant study" which i personally enjoy, but many of my spoilt friends struggle as they life being spoonfed information. half-way through my GCSEs i feel that my teachers aren't bothered with my result as they are only interested in their careers and the league tables (and to be true, why should they care?). A friend of mine (in a low maths set) at another private all-girls london private school has only been taught certain parts of the syllabus as their teacher thinks that there is no point, as they might as well do brilliantly at what they have learnt- what a defeatest attitutde. the fact that the french teacher at another school charges £50 per hour for tutoring and teaches most of notting hill and kensington after school.
these exams feel so irrelevant as we do them, not knowing how we did and then in two months time we get an inapplicable letter which is supposed to sum up our academic effort and achievment over the pas 4 years. these letters then determin our future- what university we get into, what jobs we get and therefore our earnings. and im only 16. i dont think im being a drama queen am i?
