Dr Lamb-burp
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Who said I was a Bloke anyway??
http://www.smh.com.au/national/educ...terian-church-and-school-20160413-go5232.html
The council also cited concerns over Dr Lambert's alleged handling of multiple public controversies during his tenure, including accusations of buying elite athletes with sports scholarships, negotiating direct entry into Sydney University academic programs without students sitting their HSC, and conflicts with neighbours and Woollahra Council over a four-year period.
"The report states that at an all-staff meeting, the Presbyterian Church's lawyer, Simon Fraser, likened dealing with the former council to "negotiating with ISIS [Islamic State]".
So the rowing thread was somewhat prescient.
I hear through the grapevine a certain school is waving the fees to some kids to do pathways. Makes me wonder why some people are reluctant to name how many boys are doing it at their schools.
Shouldnt be allowed on any basis.
Pathways is an academic sick joke.
Well I'm tipping the school with the most year 13 or pathways in their team to win this years GPS rugby competition
You seem to know the answer. (Which I highly doubt) If you do name the teams that have them.
Let's just say it's not Shore as NAS has assured us they have none.
It will come out in due course when other people post their list but the school I'm tipping has at least a couple in their 1st team
If your desire to the unravel this mystery of the ages and "conspiracy of silence" is so urgent all you need to do is look in the pages of this thread where it's been clearly specified before. I doubt however this will satisfy you as you appear intent on demonising pathways and the lads who participate in the program as some sort of "Scots-eque" irregularity.
This is not Salem in 1692 so you can put down your matches as the kindling you are trying to light is all green.
Not trying to demonise any group at all but merely trying to find out how widespread pathways is. Thankfully it seems very rare as only one GPS school have them and they just happen to be very good rep rugby players. So don't get your knickers in a knot over this as I'm not the one who described pathways as an academic sick joke. You should instead look at why these fine rugby players take two years to do what 99.9% of students do in one.
@IS and others are entitled to their view of the world but the FACTS are that pathways is a legitimate option for those that meet the pathways criteria.
Clearly you knew the answer to your question before you even asked it so I can only speculate at the reasons you went about circuitously attempting to illicit a response to your baited question.
I'm surprised any of them complete a successful HSC if they're in the Scots programme! 5-6 sessions a week and game day to be at the football. When do they study?
There is nothing new in this concept, only the name.
It was happening 40 years ago.
At Shore it was usual for the Senior Prefect (school captain) to repeat year 12.
So the likes of Phil Emery and Michael Hawker repeated and went on with sporting careers.
I don't have a problem as long as the boy is young for the age group. And just so long as it's the boys family's idea not the school rugby coach.
Would not like to think there would be more than 1 at a school playing first 15.
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More like 100 years. Very common to spend flexible time at boarding school in order to complete leadership, sport AND matriculate to university.
A friend of mine who was at Joeys in the 1970s, said the repeats would do courses such as landscaping. Then the purpose was to keep outstanding Rugby players.
Rumours back them also state that a number of Joeys boys missed Australian Schoolboy, because they were too old
He will probably tell you that year 12 were the best 5 years of his life.A friend of mine who was at Joeys in the 1970s, said the repeats would do courses such as landscaping. Then the purpose was to keep outstanding Rugby players.
Rumours back them also state that a number of Joeys boys missed Australian Schoolboy, because they were too old
Of course you too old if you repeat at the age of 18, but if you are 17 yrs doing year 12 and want to repeat year 12 again, well that is the students prerogative. But they will be finishing their last year at school with their correct age group.
What a crock of shit.
You don't give kids boundaries & structure by halving the educational load that 99% of less privileged kids have.
Keeping a kid at School for an additional year,because their School places a too high a burden on them to play School sport.
Is fucking ludicrous!
Its accepted educational practice learn to live with it.
It's accepted "do better at sport" practice, and really has little to do with education. Let's be honest.
If parents, pupils and schools want to do this, fine, but let's not dress it up like some sort of educational boon.
Let me put it another way - how many do 'pathways" who are just struggling students who couldn't kick / pass / row or dunk to save their lives?
Which comes back to the point of schooling. If it is in pursuit of a lucrative sporting career, it is misplaced, based on the numbers that ever really make it.