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My OH and her siblings were all sent to the #1 prep school in the US. She got in with a scholarship and graduated cum laude. Some proper parenting and guidance right there as education is priority number one for the entire family (their dad went there too and is so ******* smart he skipped a grade).

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:sneaky: blow not suck :lol:

I was useless at the piano lessons my mum paid for. Once the teacher even sat there with her head in her hands. No co-ordination at sports for me either, mocked and humiliated by various PE teachers until the last one who divided us into groups of the sporty and the rest of us who were just meant to run around and attempt to play hockey, rounders, netball, whatever. A much better experience.

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They did. I just have significant learning issues and they just didn't have the money to pay for fancy schools and such, and the public system wasn't (may still not be capable) capable of dealing with me.

I remember some very long nights trying to get homework done and my parents helping and getting frustrated.

I was basically just passed onto the next grade without mastering or learning the material.

I still have issues, I need to do something repetitively to learn it, hence why I do poorly in academics since it's all memorizing and remembering and not actually involve doing something.

I would probably excel on an assembly line doing the same task over and over....lol

My memory has gotten worse with age, so I am not even sure I could learn in a college based setting at this point.

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I was always picked last, I really didn't care, the grade was based on "trying" and suiting up into PE clothes, so if you tried you passed.

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Oh we weren't graded on PE in a way that counted, just on end of term reports and that grade wasnt based on trying but on how good you were. I was a C- I'm sure.

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Grades for PE? The mind boggles. I don't even remember it being included in reports.

I was in the school rugby and football teams and all it ever got us was a trip to the varsity football match at Wembley (my first visit) which we had to pay for and watching the varsity rugby on telly one afternoon instead of lessons.

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When my mother died a few years ago, we found all my old school reports in her paperwork.

My PE reports were uniformly "Could do better".

Rubbish.

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Exactly, "could do better" Er no, definitely couldn't, even if I wanted to.

I did spend a fair few PE lessons hiding in the loos doing homework that was due for the next lesson. French usually.

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In California at the time (maybe still is?) PE was a mandatory class for 9th and 10th and an elective 11th and 12th.

Only way to fail was to simply not show up and suit up, otherwise you passed.

High School report cards were all automated, teachers didn't leave comments, they just submitted grades and the school mailed them out. They didn't trust we would take them home to parents..

In elementary school they did leave comments and it was pretty much the same every report card, J is lagging behind his classmates, shows no interest in other kids, and appears to spend much of the time in class day dreaming.

One year a report card says, J does well in subjects he enjoys, pays attention, however if he doesn't enjoy the subject he finds alternate ways to use his time in class.

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PE was mandatory but not an exam subject so the grades didn't count. OTOH if you were good at it and on a school team then you were more popular with teachers in general. Got a special sash to wear instead of a plain belt. There may have been something on a blazer too. Sports and stuff, supposed to show teamwork and leadership.

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The only course I failed at uni was 10 pin bowling. It was pass/fail and you had to have an insanely high average, for a beginner, to pass. :(

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especially when the pins are beer bottles

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A possible option for you, details sent to you in a PM

- Since you are an EU citizen, my suggestion is straight after HS back to Malta. Have a GAP year

- Establish yourself, residence card, health card, Tax #, work PT, live with your Grans

- Armed with your (high marks) Grade 12 diploma, apply as an EU citizen to Glasgow or Strathclyde university in Scotland to the Computer Science or Informatics Undergrad degree program. As an EU citizen you wont have to pay undergrad tuition fees

- Student accommodation in both universities is good & cheap ~approx 125Gbp/wk & I believe meals included

- The degree at both universities are end off/end on through BSc to MSc takes 5 years total to Masters. If you decide to finish just the undergrad science degree after 4 -years, Glasgow has a one-year LLM (Master degree in Law).

- If you are lifetime student material, why not continue to a Doctorate degree - just another couple years, or perhaps a one year UK 'Business/Marketing Masters degree?

Whatever your decision, do it for you

Imagine in 5 years you'll have achieved what you are contemplating, have your degrees, international life experience & likely working in Europe as an analyst/Lawyer. Intellectual property lawyer perhaps earning 200K/year by age 30

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That's what we like, some old-school prescription! (Well I like it.)

Not sure you can attend to Scottish universities without more residency though. At least if you live in rUK you need to be resident in Scotland for three years in order to qualify for free tuition. It may be different for Europe though?

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That's the one phrase I do remember from primary school. I think it was written under every subject I ever did, though not necessarily at the same time. I'm sure that was a standard approach to report writing.