GHoSToKeR
11-02-2004, 12:20 PM
Okay, so here's the deal...
I'm unemployed.. I live on a small Island (population c100,000) that has roughly 500 unemployed people, and only about 100 jobs available (probably not even that)
When I started Secondary School I was the most intelligent in my class. I was automatically put into all the highest sets (over here each subject has roughly 8 sets, set 1 being the highest).. Even though I was in Set 1 for every subject, I still found the work easy and, to be honest, pretty boring. The teachers would set us work to do and i'd be done half an hour before everybody else. So naturally, I started to get restless. Instead of continuing to excel, I started to act up - to play the class clown - and to show off. I started to skip school and skip lessons. Funnily enough, even though I was missing more school than everyone else, I still nearly always got the highest grades in tests (the ones that I took, that is). After a while I began to enjoy always being the "trouble maker", which in turn made me do it more. When I got to year 8 the teachers had had enough of me. They were sick of me "wasting my natural abilities" so they gave me an ultimatum - either stop being such a little shit at school, or leave. I chose to stay, and got back into a routine of going to school, doing well, then going home and getting stoned. In year 8/9 they said they would arrange for me to take my GCSE's two years early, so that I could do my A Levels in year 11 instead of waiting an extra two years. But, my life took a few unexpected turns, and I started being a little shit again. Eventually, the school kicked me out and I had to start over in a new school, one that was especially for people "with behaviour problems such as myself".
I enjoyed this new school - the teachers treated us like people instead of children. But, unfortunately, the local government decided to close down the existing school, and use the building for something else. So I, along with the 8 other students still there, was practically forgotten about. Teachers quit; teachers were "let go"; funding was cut; exams were cancelled.. After changing my ways and studying for my GCSE's non stop for a year, I was told that 8 out of 11 of my GCSE subjects were going to be dropped. I still studied for the remaining three exams. I handed in my coursework, which was all given a mark of A or A+. Then, the school decided they were going to drop Maths as a subject, too. Anyway, to cut a long story short(er), I was refused (in a way) my right to a good education (I know I had fucked up in my original school, but that was well over a year earlier!), and left school with no exam results (after another subject was dropped I walked out and never went back)! I've contacted the Education Department since then, and their response was basically "Well, we're sorry.. But, you can attend the local college in september and sit your Maths and English exams" I looked into it but it turns out that to take my GCSE's I will have to wait until i'm 19 (a 'Mature Student') and do a 2 year course.. So, my options are practically non-existant. I have no qualifications thanks to the cunts that run this fucking island, and no way of obtaining any qualifications until i'm 19, and even then it will take an extra 2 years!
I know it was me that fucked up at first, but I truely feel i've been ripped off by the education system here.. I mean, yeah I fucked up, but even a year or more later I was refused my GCSE's.
The only other option I have is to pay for a kind of Open University home course. But, obviously I need a job to do that. And, seeing as there are only roughly 100 available jobs in the island, and 9/10 jobs I apply for need at least a few GCSE's, the idea of getting a job to pay for that is becoming less and less realistic. What's even more fucking annoying, is that half of the jobs I apply for or consider applying for, I could do with my eyes shut. But, you need a piece of fucking paper with GCSE on it to prove you can do it. Without any GCSE's most employers don't even give me an interview.
So basically, i'm fucked for now - thanks to the imaturity of my 14 year old self, the shitty Education system, and the pricks in charge who don't give a fuck about anybody.
Anyway, ima go smoke a joint
Peace
I'm unemployed.. I live on a small Island (population c100,000) that has roughly 500 unemployed people, and only about 100 jobs available (probably not even that)
When I started Secondary School I was the most intelligent in my class. I was automatically put into all the highest sets (over here each subject has roughly 8 sets, set 1 being the highest).. Even though I was in Set 1 for every subject, I still found the work easy and, to be honest, pretty boring. The teachers would set us work to do and i'd be done half an hour before everybody else. So naturally, I started to get restless. Instead of continuing to excel, I started to act up - to play the class clown - and to show off. I started to skip school and skip lessons. Funnily enough, even though I was missing more school than everyone else, I still nearly always got the highest grades in tests (the ones that I took, that is). After a while I began to enjoy always being the "trouble maker", which in turn made me do it more. When I got to year 8 the teachers had had enough of me. They were sick of me "wasting my natural abilities" so they gave me an ultimatum - either stop being such a little shit at school, or leave. I chose to stay, and got back into a routine of going to school, doing well, then going home and getting stoned. In year 8/9 they said they would arrange for me to take my GCSE's two years early, so that I could do my A Levels in year 11 instead of waiting an extra two years. But, my life took a few unexpected turns, and I started being a little shit again. Eventually, the school kicked me out and I had to start over in a new school, one that was especially for people "with behaviour problems such as myself".
I enjoyed this new school - the teachers treated us like people instead of children. But, unfortunately, the local government decided to close down the existing school, and use the building for something else. So I, along with the 8 other students still there, was practically forgotten about. Teachers quit; teachers were "let go"; funding was cut; exams were cancelled.. After changing my ways and studying for my GCSE's non stop for a year, I was told that 8 out of 11 of my GCSE subjects were going to be dropped. I still studied for the remaining three exams. I handed in my coursework, which was all given a mark of A or A+. Then, the school decided they were going to drop Maths as a subject, too. Anyway, to cut a long story short(er), I was refused (in a way) my right to a good education (I know I had fucked up in my original school, but that was well over a year earlier!), and left school with no exam results (after another subject was dropped I walked out and never went back)! I've contacted the Education Department since then, and their response was basically "Well, we're sorry.. But, you can attend the local college in september and sit your Maths and English exams" I looked into it but it turns out that to take my GCSE's I will have to wait until i'm 19 (a 'Mature Student') and do a 2 year course.. So, my options are practically non-existant. I have no qualifications thanks to the cunts that run this fucking island, and no way of obtaining any qualifications until i'm 19, and even then it will take an extra 2 years!
I know it was me that fucked up at first, but I truely feel i've been ripped off by the education system here.. I mean, yeah I fucked up, but even a year or more later I was refused my GCSE's.
The only other option I have is to pay for a kind of Open University home course. But, obviously I need a job to do that. And, seeing as there are only roughly 100 available jobs in the island, and 9/10 jobs I apply for need at least a few GCSE's, the idea of getting a job to pay for that is becoming less and less realistic. What's even more fucking annoying, is that half of the jobs I apply for or consider applying for, I could do with my eyes shut. But, you need a piece of fucking paper with GCSE on it to prove you can do it. Without any GCSE's most employers don't even give me an interview.
So basically, i'm fucked for now - thanks to the imaturity of my 14 year old self, the shitty Education system, and the pricks in charge who don't give a fuck about anybody.
Anyway, ima go smoke a joint
Peace