Re: Top 200 Schools - Daily Telegraph
u-borat said:
ffs its not about raw marks, you tard.
WTF - I'm quoting their final HSC marks, you tard.
bell531 said:
The above responders are only going by the apparent facts of an apparently unbiased newspaper article. As for the SMH and school principals lying, either you're right and these groups are lying to defame Malek Fahd, or you are wrong. It doesn't sound as though you will change your mind about this, but are you absolutely sure you are right?
I AM ABSOLUTELY POSITIVE. Everyone in our year 12 class sat the HSC exams at Malek Fahd. EVERYONE.
supercalamari said:
Err no not really.
My biggest question: Why is wearing a hijab compulsory for girls? Why not optional?
My next biggest question: Are they pushing these kids into TAFE just so they can make their marks seem better? Sounds awefully unfair to the kids and also gives parents who might want to send their kids there in the future for academic reasons some sort of false hope that "all kids at malek fahd" do well or something.
I don't know. It doesn't affect me, I do like the fact that we now have an Islamic school in Australia. About time given the number of catholic ones...
My school came 25th, up from 30th last year. Sweet!
Question 1: Since wearing the hijab is compulsory in Islam, in that God orders women to do so in the Qur'an, thus it is a part of the uniform code, since it is Malek Fahd Islamic School.
Question 2: I do believe that it is a part of the then-agenda. However, its not that all of the students below a certain level were sent to TAFE. Mostly those, for one, max 2 subjects, who didn't care at all, nor about themselves or others in their cohort they might affect. Also: I think a large part of it was to keep the ratio of well performing students to slightly less performing students higher in favour of the higher-performers.
What's quite important to consider that all this policy is changing; all students are being allowed entry through to year 12. All subjects are available to students, so long as 10 students wish to do that subject. I think, the final goal is to greatly increase the number of our graduates whilst still climbing the rank-ladder - with all our students in our school, and not in TAFE.
I'd also like to note that all of our students doing Maths (2u is the lowest maths available) did so at our school - and we were ranked 2nd in the state for Mathematics this yr. I think this is something our Principal wants to carry over to all aspects of the school.