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Life's big Lie
I was listening to the radio last night, and was shocked to discover that in South Australia, almost 7% of year 12 students are likely to leave school before completing their final year of schooling. I thought this was pretty interesting, seeing as we are so close to the end, that people would feel the pressure so much, that they felt they could not cope with it.
Of course it's not only the pressure that causes people to leave, other reasons include wanting to enter a trade, through apprenticeships, or go to TAFE, and illness. With a scarily short amount of time left before my first exam (7 weeks), I too am looking forward to leaving year 12. Despite the pressure that some teachers put on us, by declaring year 12 "the biggest year of your life", it is unreasonable to expect that the results of our final year, will dictate the success of the rest of our lives.
This brings me to the topic; Life's big lies. This afternoon on Hack, they discussed life's biggest lies: ideas that are implanted at a young age, and although they could be repeated throughout our years, never eventuate, or are infact incorrect. Such an idea is that year 12 is the most important year of our lives. Hearing from old scholars now at university, it is apparently taboo to mention your high school grades, as they are considered so irrelevant to your tertiary education. Furthermore, the SACE or IB results obtained, are rarely taken into account when an employer is assessing a potential employee. It is for these reasons that I find it amazing, that our teachers and parents, and indeed ourselves, apply so much pressure, in what should be a memorable and meaningful year.
[ posted by Tom @ 8:35 pm ]