ANZG: The Trans-Tasman Thread

[Forster Keys]

It was non religious. Though we did have to wear a tie. I was in year two...

Yeah, avoided the tie, had to swear a maroon sweater though. By high school I deliberately picked a highly funded not private school, without a uniform, and with both sexes.

Every public school here has a uniform, and pretty much all are co-ed. Down with gender apartheid!

[New Rogernomics]

My area is pretty boring too, the beer helps.

The most interesting thing is when it takes ten minutes to drive a km up the road due to a problem on the motorway.

We have a pub, but then the main urban area has three supermarkets across the road from each other...

Same thing here, though we have two, one closes at 10, the other stays open late at night,

Edit: Had a minor shudder here, must have been my tummy.

[Forsher]

The three stage NCEA system is quite interesting. They shouldn't really bother with level one though, it seems a lot easier than level two.

Three stage? NSW only has the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate.

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

[Forster Keys]

Three stage? NSW only has the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate.

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

So complex? And you get an extra year of school?

[Forsher]

The most interesting thing is when it takes ten minutes to drive a km up the road due to a problem on the motorway.

We have a pub, but then the main urban area has three supermarkets across the road from each other...

Same thing here, though we have two, one closes at 10, the other stays open late at night,

Edit: Had a minor shudder here, must have been my tummy.

Being too young to purchase alcohol I cannot coment on the opening hours of the now Irish pub.

[New Rogernomics]

Yeah, avoided the tie, had to swear a maroon sweater though. By high school I deliberately picked a highly funded not private school, without a uniform, and with both sexes.

Every public school here has a uniform, and pretty much all are co-ed. Down with gender apartheid!

I agree, actually when I was growing up I assumed all private same sex schools were full of people sexually attracted to the same sex, or religious freaks.

[Radiatia]

Okay fair enough. The answer was "WA" for the record.

Wagga in WA? You sure about that?

No my question was "Newman" which is in WA.

[New Rogernomics]

Same thing here, though we have two, one closes at 10, the other stays open late at night,

Edit: Had a minor shudder here, must have been my tummy.

Being too young to purchase alcohol I cannot coment on the opening hours of the now Irish pub.

Ah, well not far away, and you can always get alcohol from mates.

[Forsher]

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

So complex? And you get an extra year of school?

New Entrants followed by 1 - 13. It would be straight out 14 but one tends to start on ones birthday so it doesn't work out that way.

NCEA can seem quite complicated, but growing up with it is easy enough to get used to.

[Forster Keys]

Every public school here has a uniform, and pretty much all are co-ed. Down with gender apartheid!

I agree, actually when I was growing up I assumed all private same sex schools were full of people sexually attracted to the same sex, or religious freaks.

Or poor oppressed souls.

[Radiatia]

Three stage? NSW only has the School Certificate and the Higher School Certificate.

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

Oh god don't get me started on NCEA. It's terrible.

Apparently NZ is ranked as having one of the best education systems in the world. This scares me because it must mean that the rest of the world are actively beating students with the idiot stick.

NCEA was based on a French system, which failed so France scrapped it.

What does NZ do?
"She'll be right mate."
Naturally.

[Forster Keys]

Wagga in WA? You sure about that?

No my question was "Newman" which is in WA.

Cool. Forsher cleared that up.

[Forsher]

Being too young to purchase alcohol I cannot coment on the opening hours of the now Irish pub.

Ah, well not far away, and you can always get alcohol from mates.

Indeed. Two years, mostly.

Got some gin and port upstairs if I ever feel like it.

[Forster Keys]

So complex? And you get an extra year of school?

New Entrants followed by 1 - 13. It would be straight out 14 but one tends to start on ones birthday so it doesn't work out that way.

NCEA can seem quite complicated, but growing up with it is easy enough to get used to.

We call our first year kindergarten I suppose, so not much difference time wise.

[New Rogernomics]

I agree, actually when I was growing up I assumed all private same sex schools were full of people sexually attracted to the same sex, or religious freaks.

Or poor oppressed souls.

I think they must still have the cane, dorm rooms, and an evil Austrian headmistress named Helga.

[Forster Keys]

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

Oh god don't get me started on NCEA. It's terrible.

Apparently NZ is ranked as having one of the best education systems in the world. This scares me because it must mean that the rest of the world are actively beating students with the idiot stick.

NCEA was based on a French system, which failed so France scrapped it.

What does NZ do?
"She'll be right mate."
Naturally.

They have trimesters!

[Forsher]

Level One, Two and Three. One is compulsory. Two is needed for anything important that is not related to university. Three is need for uni. But we do have 14-ish years of primary and secondary.

Oh god don't get me started on NCEA. It's terrible.

Apparently NZ is ranked as having one of the best education systems in the world. This scares me because it must mean that the rest of the world are actively beating students with the idiot stick.

NCEA was based on a French system, which failed so France scrapped it.

What does NZ do?
"She'll be right mate."
Naturally.

I'm happy enough with NCEA, but I acknowledge there are many flaws. I however, think that I can fix them.

[Meowfoundland]

They have trimesters!

Yegads, no!

[Forsher]

New Entrants followed by 1 - 13. It would be straight out 14 but one tends to start on ones birthday so it doesn't work out that way.

NCEA can seem quite complicated, but growing up with it is easy enough to get used to.

We call our first year kindergarten I suppose, so not much difference time wise.

I will have been in continued education from my fifth birthday to about half way through my eighteenth birthday. That's ignoring any unversity that I may or may not go to.

[New Rogernomics]

They have trimesters!

Yegads, no!

Yep, three strikes, and you're out!

[Radiatia]

Oh god don't get me started on NCEA. It's terrible.

Apparently NZ is ranked as having one of the best education systems in the world. This scares me because it must mean that the rest of the world are actively beating students with the idiot stick.

NCEA was based on a French system, which failed so France scrapped it.

What does NZ do?
"She'll be right mate."
Naturally.

I'm happy enough with NCEA, but I acknowledge there are many flaws. I however, think that I can fix them.

I could fix them too: By scrapping NCEA.

Actually apparently National Standards is a disaster. I'm not sure about it as I left school a few years ago but yeah...

[Forsher]

I'm happy enough with NCEA, but I acknowledge there are many flaws. I however, think that I can fix them.

I could fix them too: By scrapping NCEA.

Actually apparently National Standards is a disaster. I'm not sure about it as I left school a few years ago but yeah...

National Standards will not work. They are wrong for a primary environment. NCEA as a secondary problem can be fixed without removal, but removal would possibly work better.

[Radiatia]

So here's another conversation topic:

What do you think is the best thing that Australasia has given the world?

[Forsher]

So here's another conversation topic:

What do you think is the best thing that Australasia has given the world?

The most similar flags in the world? Female PMs mocked for their looks? Two thirds of SANZAR?

This is a tough question. And then I remember pavlovas...

[Radiatia]

So here's another conversation topic:

What do you think is the best thing that Australasia has given the world?

The most similar flags in the world? Female PMs mocked for their looks? Two thirds of SANZAR?

This is a tough question. And then I remember pavlovas...

Hahaha. Pavlovas are good, but lets not get into this argument.

(Actually for the record: Pavlovas are neither Australian nor New Zealand... they originated in Russia!)