What about a sickie?

Posted by Blokeman on August 26, 2008 under General Bloke Stuff | Be the First to Comment

I don’t want to go to far down the politics path because it is essentially boring as batshit, but as I was perusing the morning news, I came across the following article. In a nutshell the article basically talks about kids who ‘wag’ school, or “truants” as the article and pollie so clinically refer to them have no chance in life and are going to end up destitute without jobs and so on.

What a bunch of bullshit. In Australia at least, wagging is part of the culture, hell the great Aussie Sickie is one of the greatest standing points that we have, we love it, and we rarely take sick days because we are sick, instead using them to piss off down the beach.

I know that for one, I hated the first High School that I was at. It was a Catholic High School and I am and have been an Atheist since a young age, so obviously there were many clashing of heads and personalities, so what did I decide to do, well I decided to wag basically an entire term of school. I think in that 2nd term of year 8 I turned up to school about 1 week out of the entire term and not all at once.

I still managed to get top marks in Art, Music and English but I think that says more about the class of me peers than the quality of my work.

From there I placed myself into a public school (that is a government school for the non-Aussies) which are seen as a poor education alternative. My parents wanted me to have the private education but I just couldn’t stand the rules, regulations and teachings of the bible that were so irrelevant a course of education when compared to such things as sciences, arts, English and Mathematics, yet it was compulsory!

So once I got to the public school, I put my head down and got to work, the rules were looser and I managed to thrive there. I learned a lot more than I would have at the upper class Private school.

Yet I still wagged, probably skipping at least 1 day a week for the rest of my School life if not more. School just wasn’t for me, I found it more of a hinderance to what I wanted to learn than a help and I found it largley wasted my time. I just don’t do well with authority!

So with all this skipping of school according to this Pollie I should be 26 and flipping burgers a Maccas, but instead I am 26 in a high paid IT job, something which I was not good at at school, nor did I get exposure to it at school. So mis Maxine whatever your name is. Pull your head in. You are a Labor pollie, it’s time to start remembering what makes us fundementally Australian and one of those things is skiving off for a day or two! If you wanted to be a Liberal Nazi, why did you compete again little Johnnie Howard?