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You misunderstand me completely. I don't want to castigate the intelligent student. I wish the list was as long as possible from all schools. But I want the schools to be held accountable for the lower achieving students as well. Lists that only highlight the top end aren't a valid measure of...

Unfortunately all your points seem to have been sourced from the tuck shop. I only wish they were true but am probably more cynical than you. Oh, and I did check a couple of the school websites as you suggest. They only highlight the top successes. Tell you what - why don't we have a look at the...

You have it in one. So, should all the GPS schools follow Shore and look to become selective, which school can they attend? It is not just illegal, but also immoral for a school to discriminate against those boys who have a few interests outside of being coached for the HSC. Once they have all...

Beats me. The Lambert Walk?

Let's get to the nub of this forum - now 12 months and 12 thousand posts old: One school allegedly has a few rugby imports. The main complainants are from schools who because they are popular are now introducing academic entrance tests, or have always done so. These schools are looking fantastic...

Feel free to articulate your argument, after all we're all anonymous here except for lincoln who is Dr Wright's pa. The issues are important because it shows the mind set of our schools. The action of the headmasters to pull their schools out of basketball is reprehensible and we will all...

Sad but true, unless of course your boy is in 1st XV and is on track to get an ATAR of 98. Then good luck to you! But for the rest of us we know that, just as in rugby, all the resources are thrown at the top and some can trickle down. Schools should be judged on what they do for the fat part of...

That's the myth they try to sell us. If your boy likes rugby, and is going to get an ATAR of 70 - 90 say, depending on how engaged he is, you are not helping him by placing him in an environment that puts him in the lower half of the year. Much better where he is in the top half and gives...

A school that does well in the HSC by selecting its students with an entrance exam does your boy much harm. He will not suddenly learn Calculus or Catulus by osmosis. His personal marks will be given to another's ATAR. The school that offers a scholarship to a prop to keep the scrum from...

Am absolutely gobsmacked to learn that some of the schools now combining teams to have a crack at the Lambert Cup in basketball. This is a not a win win really since there are only a couple of vacancies left after the "all comers welcome" invites went out. I hope my lot will be there, but I...

Schools not intended as a preparation for university, my friend. Not even SGS, not even close, for it would be so much the lesser if that was the case. As for the Bumff, it'd be pretty much everything that was written with their student's hectoring helicopter parents in mind. Which are usually...

If only. You really need citations for all of these claims. No prospective student who has won a Maths Olympiad would forget to add it to their Grammar interview. Is rugby really so different to Latin? No school has as its aim to get you into uni, but rather to foster critical thought and not be...

Again, you really need to do the work and analyse the message that Grammar is making to its customer base. (in post 1736 and referenced in 1737). In short they seem to be saying that while it is okay for them, SGS to select their pupils, what a shame it is, that others are also now beginning to...

Vegas, I am sure your post is well intentioned, but I think we are all wanting the best education for our boys and you shouldn't be claiming a mortgage on this. We can disagree on the best way to that, of course, but part of the fun in finding the best course of action is not to know the answer...

Okay, I think I can hack into my RFID cattle reader and we can scan each car's e=tag that goes in and out of Northbridge carpark. You can flash your lights if you want to donate to the Shore Rugby Scholarship, the SRS for short, and we can wand you. ( also can cattle prod aerial for cheapies).

You will need to point to independent sources to dispel what everyone knows. Shore made a mistake, simple as that, and the wounds can not heal until they admit their mistake. What followed in the sheds afterwards was a disgrace that could have brought all GPS sport in to disrepute.

And yet all this good work is gifted to the schools until the players join colts after year 12. I think the schools have a duty of care to Rugby and the offer of a couple of scholarships or not should be considered in this light.

No, the interesting thing is that they do hilight it - ie they are saying it is a good thing. But you're assumption that if they didn't start in year 7 means that they are on scholarship is flawed.

Shore string ensemble dusting off score of Gotterdammerung.

Settle down mate. All the schools are complicit. It is wrong to blame the schools - We've all see fantastic players at school get into trouble and miraculously turn up on the rugby pitch at another school. Shore is certainly not squeaky clean - poaching from another GPS school is a double...