Russell Coker wrote:
I was fortunate enough to miss some of the worst changes to Australian education (VCE) by one year.
Nitpick: VCE is .vic.au, not .au. FWIW I had state schooling in VIC and WA from up to matric, where most of the time it's glorified daycare rather than education anyway. For matric I took private-school IB instead of VCE[*], and that worked out really well because the class sizes were tiny and the teachers were well-paid, and understood both how to teach and what they were teaching. Contemporary VCE students gave the impression that ALL those properties were absent from the VCE stream... [*] mainly because I was transferring from WA, and the IB syllabus went something like "there are twelve subjects, all are two years. Pick six." Whereas the VCE syllabus was a book about an inch thick listing half-year (quarter-year?) classes. I took one look and said "I am way to busy to even READ that, let alone make an informed decision".