being a smart alec won’t get *me* into college
I stopped procrastinating tonight and finally replied to an email I was dreading a little. It was in the middle of that college requirements discussion I’m having with a college rep. She asked if we followed to provincial curriculum guidelines. I barely refrained from replying with my own beaurocrateeze:
“Although our methodologies are differing, the outcomes are generally the same.” is what I wanted to write. Actually, I did, then I changed it to, “Although our methods of delivery, and texts used are different that the Department of Ed, the outcomes are quite similar. ”
Now isn’t plain English just easier?
In fact, the beaurocrateeze of their guidelines is just one of the many reasons we only glanced at them. Besides, it probably wouldn’t have gone over well if I had said what I really thought, which was, “Well, I think those guidelines are a waste of paper, and we cover what we want when we want, which in the end leaves my kids able to read, to think and be literate and expressive as well. Plus we cover more material in more depth. Which is better than some institutions are doing.”
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For what it’s worth – I dropped out of school to college. I just studied up on SAT tricks, took it a few times until I got a really good score, then applied to colleges using my SAT score between my jr. and sr. year. They never really asked me – did you graduate high school? Can we have a transcript? Etc… Most of the ones I wanted to go to just scanned the apps, and sent accept/rejects based off the SAT scores. It worked for me. Don’t know how stuff works in Canada though.