The glee of Catherine’s mother could amount to lighting a light bulb. Spending lb 17, 000 on school fees has actually paid off, with Catherine now enrolled into Winchester she will be able to get any job she could think of, well practically any. She looks just like one of the girls in those American high school movies, with the big blue eyes and the beige coloured skin of her face being reflected off a pair of those black, square rimmed glasses. Her clothes smelling of the cedar balls that she uses in her clothing chest at boarding school. Everything smelling fresh and in pristine condition. Catherine sits down in the lounge room and pulls out her signed copy of ‘The Universe In A Nutshell,’ by Stephen Hawking.
Just watching Catherine makes her mother cry tears of happiness as she realises that she has brought up a ‘little miss perfect.’ It was only last year that Catherine’s parents had given her a credit card and pin number to look after herself whilst she was gone. Never once had the card reached its withdrawal limit. Catherine’s family now have a lot more spare money than they did before. Catherine had earned herself a scholarship of fifty percent, and because she won the scholarship she was given a television for her room in the boarding house. However it has never left its box as Catherine has only kept it in there to concentrate more on her studies at school. Her latest piece of coursework was awarded an A star, her teacher was so pleased that he sent it off to the public school board to be marked towards her GCSE results that were due in the mail the next day.
Uniforms: the Superman for Schools
Uniforms: The Superman for Schools In one school, after school uniforms were implemented, school-related crime dropped 36%! I believe that school uniforms are good for students, parents, and teachers because they help break down barriers between the “cool” and the “un-cool”, they make students safer, and they relieve stress on the family. Many people who are against uniforms say that uniforms take ...
The following morning Catherine’s results came in, almost straight A stars, only one other A that was in Advanced Chemistry. Although she required a straight set of A stars to get into Harvard she replaced the grade loss by a grade nine in the clarinet and being the country’s fourth best juvenile chess player. Her parents are now bombarding her with gifts that will never create even a spark of interest in her. She is then out the door with a courteous wave and heads straight for her weekly book meeting with her friends from school.
Catherine is back home at her unallocated curfew time of 9: 30 pm, she helps her mother cook dinner then heads off down the shiny hallway she had cleaned only yesterday. She then goes off with her father and helps him with some of the family’s accountancy work, eats dinner and then heads off to bed. She attempts to get past her seemingly endless piles of unused bedroom appliances to get to her bed, and falls asleep.
