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by Seven 15 Replies latest jw friends

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  waiting

  Hey Kristen,

  How come people respond to your posts with just a "." ??????

  The rest of us, like me, don't understand your sign language, or perhaps we can figure out your signs?

  Cat got your tongue?

  waiting
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  circare

  Hey 7, thanks for the info. It is pretty much the same way here. Our Junior High is grades 7-10, Senior High is years 11 and 12.

  So the SAT and ACT's are not compulsory?

  Here we have the School Certificate (SC) at end of Grade 10 and the Higher School Certificate (HSC) at end of grade 12. These are compulsory. The SC helps if you want to go to a college or TAFE (technical college) for a trade or workforce skill etc. The HSC results, called Tertiary Entrance Results (TERs) are for entrance in a Uni. Degree course.

  Currently here the trial HSC is over and the 'real thing' is coming up in a few weeks. Of course everyone knows it is far harder for the parents at this stressful time.

  Btw what do the initials SAT and ACT's stand for?
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  Seven

  Hi Circare, The SAT's(Scholastic Aptitude Test)
  or the ACT(American College Test) are compulsory. The admissions/selection board of any university/college you apply to uses the results of these tests along with your grade point average, and class rank(ex.1st out of 500), to determine if they will offer you admission. Each institution is free to determine their own standards-the more selective, the higher the scores they require. I attended in the Eastern US,
  so I took the SAT's only. The test is divided into
  two sections-Math and Verbal. There are 800 possible points in each section. A perfect score-
  1600. At the university I attended the average SAT
  scores for incoming freshman was the mid 700's for math and low 700's for verbal. I believe most colleges find scores of 500 in each section to be acceptable,some lower.

  Of course everyone knows it is far harder for the parents at this stressful time.

  That's what they all say.
  seven

  ~Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say,"She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes."~C.B. Luce
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  Pathofthorns

  Awake,5/22/69,pg15 If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will never grow old in this present system of things. .....all evidence in fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to end in a few years. ....as a young person you will never fulfill any career that this system offers. If you are in high school and thinking about a college education, it means at least four, perhaps even six or eight more years to graduate into a specialized career. But where will this system of things be by that time? It will be well on the way toward its finish, if not actually gone!

  actual WT from Shaun's website:[url] http://www.jwfiles.com/scans/AW5-22-69p15.htm[/url]

  *** km 5/73 6 What is Your Heart's Desire? ***
  An elder in Korea encouraged his four children to pioneer. At a circuit assembly he and the children were interviewed. The oldest daughter related how she had been the highest scholastically in her high school. She herself wanted to go to college at one point. However, her father informed her that, while she was free to choose such a course, she could not expect financial support from him. She changed her mind about college, and now she is enjoying many blessings as a pioneer. The next oldest, a son, told how he also at one time wanted to go to college and follow a worldly course. But his father sat down and reviewed the Scriptures with him. His father also told him that, if he insisted on following a worldly course, he would also have to find another place to live. He heeded his father’s counsel and is very grateful that his father was kind but firm in his stand. The two younger children explained that they were impressed by what happened to the two older ones. From the beginning they planned to become pioneers. The youngest son gave up his high school education to pioneer.

  *** w92 11/1 18 Education With a Purpose ***
  11 What is often the situation today? [Read: "What has been the result of our bad advice?"]It has been reported that in some countries many well-intentioned youngsters have left school after completing the minimum required schooling in order to become pioneers.[Imagine that! I wonder where they got that idea from?] They had no trade or secular qualifications. If they were not helped by their parents, they had to find part-time work. Some have had to accept jobs that required them to work very long hours to make ends meet. Becoming physically exhausted, they gave up the pioneer ministry. What can such ones do to support themselves and get back into the pioneer service?

  12 A balanced view of education can help.
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  waiting

  Thanks, Path,

  for reminding us what the WTBTS has taught our generation (your parents) on what to teach our children, and what some of us were taught by our parents.

  My husband was raised in the organ. - he was one of the few who went to technical school. Said he wasn't going to be completely unskilled like his father, who was raised in the organ. His family has been jw's for a century.

  Almost all of the kids he grew up with in the organ. left the organ. (slightly pre-baby boomer)

  A lot of us have done harm to our children by encouraging them to not be educated. Not just for the money - a plumber makes more money than most of us, educated or not! But for the thinking ability, reasoning power, etc. We know only what we've been taught by the Society. We have limited articulation. We can converse only on what we've been taught by them.

  There are always exceptions - on both sides of the fence. College grads who are ignorant. JW's who are quite intelligent and articulate. But probably the same ratio of exceptions on both sides.

  But we denied ourselves the chance. We denied our children of the chance. Some children were encouraged to turn down scholarships - and then applauded. Btw, not only were children encouraged, they were shunned, or negatively spoken about if they did go to college (depending on the local.)

  The WTBTS encouraged, taught us, to deny - so we could go out in service, place literature, and save ourselves and others so we could all live in a shortly-arriving Paradise in peace and harmony. Except for the literature part, sounds like a '70's song, huh?

  Going to the meeting this morning? Think of me with my dog & coffee. Oh, and my honey! (Southern for husband).

  waiting
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  circare

  Hi 7, thanks for the fill in. Interesting to see the similarities.

  Also an interesting quote. There's has been a lot of truth in that statement in times past. Must say tho' - "She doesn't have what it takes." - does not fit my picture of you.

  7, Path & Waiting,
  Hope you all enjoyed your weekend. We had a very warm and pleasant spring day here for our Sunday.