Palmers College and its lack of support

Palmers College, one of the worse colleges around i must say. As you walk in, the trees, green grass and buildings all look lovely... these of course are the only nice looking parts in Palmers.


Students can only walk on the grass during summer, though there is virtually nothing stopping students walking on the grass, thus giving the grass a mustard effect. Saving my friend from walking into what looked like dog poop on a human size scale is probably the most shocking thing about it all, it isn't clean as the pictures portray though is cleaned on probably a monthly basis. Let me stop rambling on about the outside part, anyone could see that...


The majority of teachers lack the ability to teach or even to understand the main purpose of their job, understandably, there are those days to which I teacher may not care about anything, though this should not have to continue throughout the year. I would say Palmers is like a snow flake as it gently blows, following with the natural light breeze of the wind, go any deeper and you will notice that the snow flake was merely made out of poison and was dropping into the devils soup, to which Palmers is being served.


There equipment for the most of it is half decent, not good enough, but it will do. The computers might have an easily downloadable OS (Windows 7) but there is a low amount of memory on each computer, which to me doesn't make sense. Only ICT/Computing students will use computers on a daily basis, they need the necessary amount of memory, having to ask to add more memory or being limited on such a small amount is unjustifiable by the college.


Want to feel like a sardine? GO TO PALMERS!
Each corridor has such a small range, its incredible someone like myself could even manage to fit through it on a daily basis, loads of people come and go from all directions. Luckily, it isn't a constant flow, you as a student have only two options, leave earlier than 5minutes to which you would have to wait for your teacher either way, due to this you may have to be the colestiole of the blood stream, you will have to wait in the corridor (depending on your class, however the majority of classes are in corridors), as people can only give beams of anger and disappointment as you help slow them down. OR as a student, you can turn up to your class 5-10 minutes late, the corridors are clear, though you face a risk of getting in the danger zone. The corridors can only be described as thin crust from nicely cut bread, filled with a load of oranges trying to get in and out of the narrow lining. Along with typical slow walkers, large groups of friends and those people who just love to stop in front of you and have a mindless conversation about gossip, the only thing you may have to not worry about is that others think the same, you are nothing but a drop in the ocean, there is no difference here. No identify. No arguments.


My ICT teacher (Gavin Gill) refused to mark me and my friend's folder after saying that we did not have anything in order. Originally, i thought "yes, I should have had everything in order" but compared to other people, it seemed untrustworthy. Another one of my friends didn't get his work marked simply because he "didn't have the work in his folder". However, as soon as he got his folder, he opened it up and saw the work which apparently, wasn't there. This just shows what a lack of support he and other teachers do to try and keep students above everything. He was willing to give up his Saturday to mark work for the last time, but he didn't mark mine, a few others and missed out work which he criticise us for not having, when clearly it was there.


It's understandable to think that "yea i told you so" but at the minimum he shouldn't have pestered his students for 1 week about completing the folder and its work. Some pieces of work were not even explain through class. Such lack of teacher support often makes me think why there is even a teacher. All Gavin Gill does is sit at his computer and read a PDF out loud. The only thing the students get from listening to him is the average grade and page number, anything else is either irrelevant or simply unjustifiably stupid.


Having work in a folder (slightly organised or not), Gavin Gill bigged up the situation as if it was 2012's last day on earth, when the user provides the input, i expect the output. An output to which Gavin Gill did not provide. I am better off reading a PDF and saving myself the long distance journey of college only to witness such actions...life lives on, and i still digress, oh well.


I could literally go on for hours on end explaining why im still in Palmers and why it isn't as good as shown, though i don't have the time to rant and im sure you don't have enough oxygen in your lunges to laugh at.


Good day and in my next post, it will be less ranting, more....something creative and whatnot Stay tuned or stay fumed.