A few years ago our school was one million in debt. XD

Anyhow, the sixth form school council get pizza! From Pizza hut. But I don't go...

Abel wrote: meh, with the £20,000+ they rip out of us for god knows they should be able to afford it. bloody fees are STILL going up despite them closing one house so all the others a bursting, scrapping the plans for a new pavilion, stopping the christmas+summer fairs and ditching crisps and chocolate in the pack lunches.

Hahahaha.
That's just funny.
I mean, our school fees are going up but at least they do seem to be actually improving it a little.

Our school's pretty broke, and it just spent a bunch of funds on roofed walkways from the door of each building to the next.

lucky <_< we have to walk in the cold, cold rain. we dont get too wet tho because they keep building extensions for the junior school so the buildings are close together. hhmm...maybe that is where all the money is going...

bah, our school SAY they are doing things, they have weird clocks that set themselves to the right time using magnets or something strange like that.

Our school does nothing period. Lazy bums. Okay that's a bit unfair seeing as I don't exactly do anything either, but there you go. I think the last thing they did was ban our vending machines.

(The teachers lounge still has them. Is this unfair? Yes!)

Abel wrote: bah, our school SAY they are doing things, they have weird clocks that set themselves to the right time using magnets or something strange like that.

Ah, an excellent demonstration of how spectacularly Abel is capable of missing the point. Honestly, she'd be fine if she got shut in an iron maiden or fell into a pit of spikes.
They just pick up the radio time signal that's broadcast across the country based on a caesium fountain clock (which is more accurate timekeeping than the Earth I believe, so they have to adjust it occasionally to Earth time). Magnets indeed.

Athena wrote: Our school does nothing period. Lazy bums. Okay that's a bit unfair seeing as I don't exactly do anything either, but there you go. I think the last thing they did was ban our vending machines.

(The teachers lounge still has them. Is this unfair? Yes!)

ours banned them! their reason was people were getting lunch from there instead of going into school lunch. now we just dont eat lunch because the vending machines are gone.

yeah sent, the point of my post was to illustrate the useless things my school are spending their money on. not my lack of knowledge when it comes to clocks.

Abel wrote: yeah sent, the point of my post was to illustrate the useless things my school are spending their money on. not my lack of knowledge when it comes to clocks.

They don't cost much more than normal clocks any more, and they actually show the right time.
I remember one clock at school that would slip forward five minutes if you nudged it the right way. That was great for getting out of lessons early.

I mean, I have a radio clock on my bedside table cos it cost me £5 and it would have cost the same for a normal one. Plus I never remember to change my clocks for DST and stuff.

A clock is a clock. They could save money for, oh I don't know, new computers? Unless you have half decent ones. Ours suck majorly.

A clock is only any use if it tells something approaching the right time...

there was nothing wrong with the old clocks, and these new ones get it wrong when you change the batteries, you have to reset them quite a few times before they get it right. our school have good computers, pretty much the only thing that is above average.

Couldn't this all be solved if people just bought watches?

Yeah, but if people have watches, they alter them a few minutes fast so when the teacher asks what time it is they can get out of lessons early.
Plus people just won't buy watches, ESPECIALLY if they're asked to by the school.

watches are easier to lose

Aren't they - you know - attached to your wrists? Then again if everyone in school is as forgetful as me than they'd all be lost by the next day.

Watches annoy my wrists. I'm happy moving my neck a few inches upwards and making out the time on the clock nailed to the wall.

we have to take them off for sport and i always forget where i put them

They get in the way of me writing. and it just feel...strange.

I take my watch off for showers, and that's about it. The strap takes a couple of hours to dry. Otherwise I never take it off. It's incredibly useful. Wouldn't be without it.

My latest watch - watch number 10 as it is so foundly called - had a very tragic end. I was playing basketball with it and this guy was trying to steal the ball so he smacked my hand. I'd been adjusting it earlier so it flew across the room and cracked.