Come on mario. a really crappy report shouldn't deter you from school.
My parent's don't yell, they just sit there and stare at you and ask you if you been doing anything illegal, which is a weird question because in all of school they've never let me out.
Going to a catholic private school is quite a bad combination, but you have to try.
I sure as hell ain't the best of academics, but I try. And as long as I try, my parents have to understand and accept that that is the best I can do.
They've had a hard time doing that, so they've turned to my sister to be the smart one in the family. She's in year 12 now, and does 4 Unit maths and all that stuff, and she's actually coming in the top 5 in pratically all her subjects. My parents have all but forgotten about me and my 'failures'. I'm in University now, and thats all i care about. I made it.
Year 12 is THE hardest year in all of schooling, because it's not just the school part, it's the psychological part of it. You DO stress out from the work, and your family gets the brunt of it. I didn't act like I stressed out, but i kept it all inside. I never let it out, which is probably why you aussies saw me in a pissed state of late, cause i let it out then.
You also deal with people choosing suicide as a way out. Every year has those who can't hack it. I knew a guy who killed himself last year. One guy that my sister used to know in her grade in primary school killed himself recently too. You start thinking if suicide is the easy way out. Even I thought about it, cause it just felt like a good idea at times when i was pissed. But there are worse. My friend's dad died DURING the HSC, so there was more pressure and emotion on him then ever before. But he pulled through. I pulled through. All my friends pulled through.
Just remember that at the end of it all, there is a 4 month holiday before you start uni/tafe/whatever, and it is better than any holiday you will ever have, because of the amount of pain you went through to get there.
Keep up the work. Try to actually do well. Just cause you've only got your sights on tafe or something doesn't mean you can slack off more.
The sh*t thing about the holidays after finishing school is finding out your UAI and finding out if you got any offers for uni. Me and my cousin got our UAIs basically a year ago this week. I got 72.45, my cuz got 62. Sure it was crappy for both of us (especially her), but we persevered. In January, our families went to sail the Whitsundays (on the Great Barrier Reef) on our own luxuary catamaran for a week. During the week, we realised that our uni offers had been sent out, so we sailed to Hamilton Island (took a whole day to get there), and hoped to the internet cafe, and checked our offers. My cousin was seasick to go, so she sent her sister and my sister to go for her. I went on and discovered an offer for the course I do now. My cousin, however, got no offers. She got the news, and started crying. Possibly the even sh*ttier thing is that her friend called on her mobile and told her before we could. Accepting my offer is a whole other story, but a great one, since i was 10000 kms away.
So I am at Uni, and she repeated year 12, and is now awaiting her UAI for a second time.
Don't drop school. There may be alternatives to getting into uni/tafe, but if you wanted to drop, you should have at the end of year 10. Now is the point of no return. You've worked too hard and gotten too far to quit now. It's an emotional time. VERY emotional.
And even though this rant may be pointless since you've already said you ain't gonna quit, I'm posting it anyway.
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