The Postmodern Chronicles Of Hayley

I’d be rather surprised if there was someone out there that actually still visited this blog. But I could be wrong. A lot has happened in my life since the last entry and this post is basically an update.
In early March Alister and I came to a mutual agreement to split up, feeling that we had more fun as good friends. I’d be lying if I said that I wasn’t upset, but I do believe it is for the best. But the night of our breakup was a big bash over the head for me. I came to the realization that for the first time in my life, I was alone. No matter how much I sold myself to people, it wouldn’t change the fact that there was no one in this world that was prepared to undertake the 24 hour, 7 day a week chore of loving me. I’d do anything at all just to feel like someone loved me for even just a second, and that ended up hurting me even more. It’s gotten to the point where I can no longer distinguish between love and sex. At this point in time, I’m more vulnerable than ever and it scares me what that may lead to.
All throughout this year depression has taken its toll on me in many ways. I was sick of being treated like a pack animal and having to conform as if I was the same as everyone else. With this in mind, I signed out of Ku-Ring-Gai Creative Arts High School one last time in search of happiness. Saying goodbye was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. It absolutely tore me apart to say goodbye to Angela, who has been there for me since day one of Year 7. Perhaps my escape could have been avoided, if the school had a fence to keep me inside.
Since my departure, Ku-Ring-Gai has been the topic of a lot of controversy in the media. The  school has gained a national identity as “the finger-print school” with exposure in the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News.

 

Ku-ring-gai High students ‘forced’ to accept ID scans 

 

By Brad Norington and James Madden
April 03, 2008 08:07am
Article from: The Australian 

 

 A SYDNEY high school has been accused of intimidating students into having their fingerprints scanned for a new attendance monitoring system, and branding parents who object as “idiots”.
Parents of students at Ku-ring-gai High School in Sydney’s north say their children have been bullied into taking part in a trial of the scheme introduced this week.  

 

According to a principal’s note sent home with students last Friday, parents were permitted to opt out by sending an “exemption” letter to the school.  

 

Parents told The Australian yesterday their children were told their fingers would be scanned anyway, and data later deleted, only if there were still objections.  

 

Alison Page said her daughter in Year 10 and other students who carried exemption letters were told “their parents were idiots for not agreeing”. She said they were asked again if they would have the scans. “They were told to go home and tell their parents they were worrying about nothing,” she added.  

 

Ms Page said her other daughter in Year 12 was among students required to provide finger scans without notice after an English exam on Tuesday. Her daughter had an exemption letter but had not been allowed to take it into the room.  

 

“They were not allowed to leave the room until it was done,” she said. “They were told it could be deleted later if they didn’t want it done.”  

 

Parent Chris Gurman said his daughter Alex was also told she could not leave the exam room until her fingerprint was taken.  

 

“My daughter was the only one who refused,” Mr Gurman said. “She’s read 1984. When she refused to co-operate, a teacher let her out of the room.”  

 

Alex Gurman, 17, said they were told: “‘If any of your stupid parents have any worries about this we will talk about it later.’ I felt like crying, I felt like I was being forced to do something I didn’t want to do, it was very confronting.”  

 

The Australian Council for Civil Liberties raised concerns about people being pressured into fingerprint scans, and said they posed dangers to privacy.  

 

Council secretary Cameron Murphy said: “This is exactly why the process is unacceptable, because in most cases where this biometric information is collected it is very rarely by consent.”  

 

The principal of the creative arts high school, Glenda Aulsebrook, said she was unaware of allegations that students had been forced to accept scans, saying no one was obliged to participate. Ms Aulsebrook denied fingerprints were kept on record, saying only numbers were kept on a database.  

 

She said she first became aware of the procedure at a principals’ conference where she was shown how it operated.  

 

NSW Education Minister John Della Bosca said a small number of schools had introduced fingerprint scanning with the support of parents, adding it was not a government nor department initiative.  

 

“In each case the department has ensured there are strict privacy safeguards and parental consent,” Mr Della Bosca said.  

 

NSW Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell said he was worried parents who wanted to opt out might have been forced to participate. The process had also never been formally announced by Mr Della Bosca nor the Iemma Government, he said.  

 

An Education Department spokeswoman said inquiries would be made about the scheme.  

 

Sources in the childcare sector said some long day care and family day care centres used touch screen sign-in systems that recognised parents’ prints.

School students ‘forced to give fingerprints’ 

 

Posted Thu Apr 3, 2008 9:18am AEDT
Updated Thu Apr 3, 2008 9:44am AEDT

 

 

A north Sydney high school reportedly scanned students’ fingerprints for a new attendance monitoring scheme. (Reuters: Kin Cheung) 

 

The New South Wales Government is under fire over reports a Sydney high school scanned its students’ fingerprints without parental consent. 

 

Ku-ring-gai High School, in north Sydney, reportedly scanned all of its students’ fingerprints for a new attendance monitoring scheme, even after some parents asked for their children to be exempt. 

 

The Australian newspaper reports parents who complained were told the data would only be deleted if there were still objections later. 

 

State Opposition Leader Barry O’Farrell says the NSW Government has mismanaged the program since the beginning. 

 

“[Premier] Morris Iemma needs to explain why this controversial scheme has never been publicly announced by his Government,” he said. 

 

“Very little happens in schools that the Department of Education doesn’t oversight. 

 

“The Department of Education claims that if parents don’t want their children to participate in this high school fingerprinting scheme, those students can opt out. 

 

“Here we have claims again that students are being forced to participate.”

 

‘Benefit of the doubt’ 

State Education Minister John Della Bosca says he will be speaking to the school involved before making any judgement about its actions. 

 

Mr Della Bosca says departmental guidelines clearly state that parents must give consent before their children’s fingerprints are scanned. 

 

“Today, we’ll be speaking with the school, unlike Mr O’Farrell, who’s scoring cheap political points against his local school,” he said. 

 

“I think the school deserves the opportunity to explain and the parents and citizens deserve the benefit of the doubt.” 

 

He says fingerprint scanning can be a useful tool for schools to keep track of attendance if it is done properly. 

 

“You have to understand that education for people of compulsory schooling age is compulsory and schools do have an obligation to keep an accurate roll of attendance,” he said.

 

Just when everyone thought it was safe to wear their uniforms in dark alley ways again, more drama occured. Today (Tuesday, April 8th, 2008) the school recieved a phonecall from an anonymous male with a ‘deep voice’ who claimed a bomb had been planted in Lincoln block. The school had not recieved a bomb threat for over 18 years. The whole school was evacuated to the back oval, as close to the bush as possible (which, I might add, is located next to a giant explosive gas tank). The fire brigade and the police were called and cleared the area, allegedly having to tear a screaming Ms Petlevanny from her beloved library. Many students left their valuables and personal belongings in Lincoln block, unable to retrieve them. The senior TAFE students had to have their belongings retrieved by armed policemen and then inspected by the Deputy Principal. Those with the soundtrack to ‘High School Musical’ featured on their mp3 players had to have them destroyed by the National Guard, in the fear that their music taste may make them terrorist targets. The proceedure was said to have taken approximately 2 - 3 hours. Teachers have denied allegations that the bomb scare was cover-up so they could watch a ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ marathon in the staffroom, nor was it so Nikki Webster could film another video clip on the school campus. 

 

As a way to compile all my memories of Ku-Ring-Gai, I posted a collection of random memories on MySpace. Numerous students (past & present) also contributed their memories and below is the final product. A big ‘thankyou’ to all who contributed!
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER…
1. when roll-call went for 10 minutes?
2. when Mr McLoughlin retired and we had that huge assembly… then he came back the next week?
3. when Ms. Simmons told the assembly that no one was drugged at the swimming carnival and if we said one more word about it, we’d get suspended? (Even though George gave Jess caffeine tablets and the ambulance came)
4. when Jono Abo dyed his hair pink on photo day and was isolated in the planning room for a week?
5. when Lyndsay Harper was a little innocent blonde kid?
6. when that chick decided she’d use Year 8’s as her body piercing guinea pigs?
7. when Andrew Babicci stitched together his diary with the sewing machine and cried when everyone laughed at him?
8. when Tuesday Week A was a double NOVA period?
9. when the Bini was white?
10.  when Tuesday sport finished at 2.30?
11.  when Esky played a giant pair of undies at the Spotlight Talent Quest (and won)?
12.  when the room numbers were different? (ie. CURIE had rooms 40 – 56; CHURCHILL had rooms 20-38; TAGORE had rooms 1 – 19; and LINCOLN had rooms 60 - 82)
13.  when the canteen had lollies?
14.  when there were three vending machines that gave out soft drink and chocolate?
15.  when Josh Smith pole danced on the Sphynx?
16.  when they filmed that show ‘Out There’ and we weren’t allowed to go near the actors?
17.  when everyone had surf brand lanyards that they hung their phones from?
18.  when only one kid in each year had an iPod?
19.  when we all went on Maths excursions to Wonderland, and completing the worksheets we were given was ‘optional’?
20.  when the library had MAD magazines?
21.  when you could access any website you wanted at school?
22.  when Ms Phillips wobbled 7 times in one minute?
23.  Ms. Sutomo’s moustache?
24.  when Mrs. Julius was Miss Stapelton?
25.  when Mrs. Amor was Miss Randall?
26.  when Mrs. Roberts was Miss Pettigrew?
27.  how disappointed we were when we discovered that Mr. Plant was not Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin?
28.  when that DJ came to school and made Steeley say into a microphone “My name is Steeley and I’m feeling really feely?”
29.  when everyone used to play their awesome monophonic ring tones on the bus and only spoilt kids had phones with polyphonics?
30.  when Maddy Rowe’s incredibly moving farewell speech to the Year 12’s ended in “SHIT! I forgot my quotes!”
31.  when Mr. Griffiths sent someone out of the assembly exclaiming “Get out - I don’t like your face.”
32.  when the 8.25 bus from Hornsby Station was called the 103?
33.  when we all assumed everyone at Asquith Girls was a lesbian?
34.  when we used to have a fence?
35.  when Mr. Gahan had his fly open the whole way through year assembly - and the girls in the front row could tell.
36.  when Mr Gielis was fat and had a wobbly chin?
37.  when Gahansy commented on Harry Astons hair (afro) he responded with “Yeh sir, so where’s yours?”
38.  When Esky sang “Pop Goes the Weasel” when the man at camp put the harness on.
39.  When the Year 12 did a nudey run - and one of them dropped their cover up sock.
40.  When Ms Garcia fainted on the first day back 2006
41.  When Ryan knocked out Mrs Roberts with a football the day before her wedding, and caught her on the way down.
42.  When Ryan knocked out Sam Tulk and she was taken to hospital by ambulance.
43.  When we had to disect eyes
44.  When Torian was so afraid of spiders, he’d jump at their every mention.
45.  Before Mrs Dukes inhabited the library/office and all of senior study (boy those were good pleasant times!)
46.  When we used to pay by envelope
47.  When we had “plant a tree day” which got ripped out the day after, and the one’s that remained died anyway.
48.  When Fran’s mum, Abbey’s mum and Chloe’s mum were the only mums who turned up to “plant a tree day”
49.  When green unitards were worn in The Little Show Of Horrors (nice on Leash & Beck)
50.  When Esky wore a bright blue unitard and looked like a freak
51.  When we had to take the big 40th birthday air shot - and we all got squished by the year 12’s.
52.  When Lachlan was short (oh wait that hasn’t changed, he still is!)
53.  When we didn’t have licenses.
54.  When Mr Tufts was still around *American accent* Hello there - how’s your maths going?
55.  When we had a Year Seven showcase.
56.  When we went to Canberra for one day - spent 4 hours on the bus, 2 hours at maccas, and about 30 mins actually in Canberra.
57.  When Ms Soto had a camel toe.
58.  When Mel was planning to jump in the Tagore fountain, but accidently fell in anyway, and had to get a spare uniform.
59.  When Jon Ong actually came to school.
60.  When John Lightbown didn’t know Phillip
61.  When sport was actually compulsory
62.  When Esky tried to drive the bus, then proceeded to steal the megafone instead. (If stealing a bus wasn’t bad enough!)
63.  When the ambulance drivers came to the Year 10 after party to take Chloe Byrnes to hospital. “Ummm… We’re not picking that up…”. So Jono had to haul her into the ambulance while he was pinging on ecstasy.
64.  When Coutts “didn’t even go here”.
65.  When Trigger was originally Item 26.
66.  When our diaries were useful and had a sleeve.
67.  When merit awards were handed out for doing a nice title page, rather than solving the school budget issue.
68.  When Olivia dropped her desk in the middle of an exam.
69.   When the Year Sevens weren’t so small and annoying
70.  When Colin the bus driver, was the coolest bus driver around.
71.  When Year 12 were looking forward to an assembly for once, which was then interrupted by Mr. Griffiths announcing that we had exams and therefore had to leave the assembly to return to their maths class.
72.  when Ms Rioux would mark you down if you spelt your name wrong on the top of the Spanish Exam.
73.  When those Asquith Boys turned up and ran into the bushes out the back and the police were apparently called but we weren’t allowed to watch the chase.
74.  ALEX THE GURMANATOR. Enough said.
75.  When the Year 12 debating team beat Hornsby Girls, with the adjudicator exclaiming that it was the “worst debate she’s ever seen” and she’s been debating since she was twelve.
76.  When Mr Dempsy would come around to roll calls with the boot polish and nail polish?
77.  When Jaimi’s and Tom’s bags went missing.
78.  When Declan vomited on the bus on the second day of year 7.
79.  The massive food fight. They locked in the kids who didn’t escape the canteen quick enough and blamed them for it.
80.  When the girls would have to get toilet paper from the “CENTRAL” toilet paper dispenser before going into the toilet - tough luck if you didn’t take enough with you
81.  When Sophia fainted and people thought she was faking it so they left her… next she was seen on a stretcher.
82.  When Shelley and Chloe dressed up as caterpillars on that wildlife day.
83.  When we all found out Brooke and Angela were dating
84.  When Chloe Byrnes got her thumb caught in a can and Mr Plant had to cut it off with a coping saw.
85.  when Gurman got dacked on yr7 camp when she was looking out the door
86.  when John Ong kicked the desk in the tech drawing room and it went
BOOOOM and Mr Kumar jumps back yelling ‘WHAT WAS THAT??!! I TORT IT WAS A BOMB”
87.  When Sean had an AFRO
88.  When Shelley’s eyebrow got plucked OFF at Year 9 camp.
89.  When Lizzie Pritchard was enrolled at out school BUT NEVER SHOWED UP!
90.  When Andrew Lloyd convinced Ms Townsend that Mike Treddinick had been expelled from school because he was in the nudie run last year.. and that now Andrew was the school captain.
91.  When Rowan got bashed on the bus by Jacob in the year below and the bus driver left him on the side of the road with a bleeding nose and vomiting
92.  when Rowan Scott sed he had 3 nipples and one testicle.
93.  when Alex Pierce pretended he was deaf for a whole period and Miss Jay believed him and gave him special provisions
94.   When the Berowra bus driver didnt open the door for Jacob Owen because he had “missed the bus” even though he was right there at the traffic lights.
95.  There was that girl who came to our school called Sus? and she was a bit Sus? Bahahahha
96.  Year 7 camp and the giant fake rock with the shit food- then they made us go agen in Year 9 and Year 10!
97.  The seaweed at that beach! Ewwwww!
98.  Whenever Miss Simmons said a ‘P’ it would go ‘PPPPPPP’ in the micl
99.  When Andrew Basich, Matt O’Donnell and Evan Lewis got taken away by the cops because they got dobbed in for having weed on them.
100. When Hayley and Ross were blowing up condoms and drawing faces on them in roll call and Mr Kumar demanded that she pop them. So she popped it and the lube sprayed out all over Mr Kumar.
101. When Joey Akkary convinced everyone in Year 7 that he thought he was Jesus.
102. Year 9 Camp Team Spirit: “We are groupies! We are the groupie-groupies!” and then later “You’re just jealous OF US! You’re just jealous OF US!”
103. Frumpy Jindabyne 2007 Camp Leader: “Now, I’m a really big fan of the Morning After Pill…”
Hayley: [makes gagging motions]
104. When Mrs. Smith (the music teacher) didn’t know how DVDs work and proceeded to tap the television screen, thinking it was touch-screen.
105. When Josh Smith wrote “YA MUMS A HO” in dark chocolate on the brick wall in Year 7… It was still clearly visible in Year 12.
106. When Horvath became a YouTube celebrity with his legit beatboxing skills.
107. When Sean Casey ate shit off the ground at Jindabyne pretending to be his Aboriginal alter-ego “Seanangatta”.
108. When Hayley, Zena and Shai got high off the gas that the ambulance drivers gave to Mel.
109. When Lyndsay Harper won first prize in the art competition (a new set of oil paints) and was so eager to use them he spilt them all over his blazer… then proceeded to get the paint off with turps.
110. When Gibbs brought a bottle of gin to the Year 10 Athletics Carnival and got incredibly drunk then disappeared into the toilets for 2 hours.
111. On Nation Sorry Day when they dressed two white junior kids up as Aboriginals as a sign of ‘respect’.
112. When Hayley had a drunken conversation with Mr Lindsay for the entire photography class about bikini waxing.
113. When Mr Minko taught PDHPE, he’d spend the entire lesson showing off how fit he was. And other times he’d give the kids who finished their work first a back massage.
114. Campbell guitar seranading the less-than-impressed teacher from the other school at ‘Jindy Markets’.
115. How cool the Jindabyne staff thought the expression “Off the chain!” was. (it really wasn’t ‘ off the chain’ at all - more like ‘off the LAME!!!’)
116. The ‘real-life’ Year 11 Driver Education policeman video that we had to watch starring Sarah Aubrey as the chick who supposedly died on her 18th birthday… She does voice overs for Channel 7 now. Last time I believe anything a Copper-Sulfate has to say…
117. When Lyndsay and Hayley drew seedy looking smiley faces perving up the girl’s skirts on every single one of the Art Cottage seats… and Year 9 were blamed for the whole thing!
118. When Mu-Mu lady (the one that wore a tent) left the library.
119. On ’60’s Day’ for the 40th Anniversary, Miss Simmons doing the watusi/stomp/twist for the assembly.
TOM WEEDON: “She looks like she’s raping a doorknob!”
120.  Smoking outside the photography rooms because Mr Anderson just gave us the keys and never showed up to class. Oh and when Hayley’s boyfriend Alister taught Year 11 photography because Mr Anderson was too lazy.
121. When Ms Phillips used to call John, John Lighthouse.
122. When Alex Pierce got his pinky stuck out at a right angle during football and it got published in Zoo magazine. 
123. Those massive fights where the whole school would crowd round and watch.
124. When Jaimi burnt a hole in Fran’s boxer shorts by accident, right after she’d just finished making them.
125. When Zena accidently sewed her finger in Textiles (gross)
126. Mr Dempsey and his pink socks?!?
127. Sam Tulk and Jiahua’s sex tape?
128. When Mr. Lewis had “evening activities” on art camp and only Jiahua and Shelley thought suss of it.
129. When Alex still had eyebrows.
130. When Chux were still cool.
132. When MTV rocked up at our school.
133. When they introduced the fingerprint system in which they tried to convince us it didn’t scan our fingerprint - but the “numbers” in our finger.
134. When Jiahua tried to convince Abbey to get crABBS for her jersey (she even offered to walk next to her if she did) then chloVAG for Chloe, and then shellGINA for Shelley
135. When Alex Gurman dated Jacob Owen
136. When Alex ate a bag of seasoning.
137. when Laura Starr called everyone from Elle Iredale, Nicole McKenna, ect’s group a ‘filthy slut’ and then joined the group a couple weeks later. She has thought she was cool ever since.
138. Mr. Brameld’s platypus tie
139. when we didnt have free periods.
140. on tour every year Miss Boyle saying “HELLLLOOOOOO” through the mic on which everyone would repeat “HELLLLLOOOOOOOOO”.
141. when Joey convinced everyone in year 7 that his hair was naturally orange
142. when Michael Holm and his band sang ‘Holiday’ in year 8. It would’ve been funnier if they sung the Madonna version.
143. When school used to start at 8:54am and recess was at 10:35am?
144.  When the lift was put in at our school and was never used?
145. When Mr Gelis told the assembly about the time he was in a parade and he was a cave man or something…
146. When Cindy Wong chased Alex with a spade
147. When Cindy Wong drank about 5 cans of Coke a day
148. When we figured out what NUGGETING was?
149. When Andrew Lloyd, Hugh Scott, Tom Weedon and Hayley Brown figured out that Ms Phillips wiggled!
150. When Jono, Declan, Tom and Shai wagged that day in Yr 10 and Shai got texts from people she didnt even know saying Mr Griffiths were looking for them.. Then they all got suspension warning letters.
151. When the other school at Jindabyne Camp called us all “the bogans wearing the flannelette shirts”
152. When Mrs Thompson slapped Alex in Year 10 English
153. Ms Kelen with her peculiar name calling habits. John Lightbown was ’Lighthouse’ or ‘Lightbulb’ and Fran was ‘Francis’.
154. When Michael Holm blacked out 3 times playing soccer and footy on the backk oval.
155. When Allen Liley used to get put in the bin at lunch, head first
156. when Jono Abo ran into Mr Colley when they were both smoking in the car park.
157. when you used to line up at the canteen
158.  when Marni asked Mr Lewis if he was French in our first yr7 art lesson (back in the days of the moustache)
159. When we watched that 5th Element movie and Ms Garcia went crazy at the sex scene and started covering the screen with her cardigan.
160. when Alan Lilley got blindfolded and tied to the tree, then when the teacher asked him who it was he said he couldn’t remember.. and almost got suspended?
161. Ms Hulme: “I’m not Sweedish, they are tall blonde and beautiful.”; Sam Coutts replies: “Sorry, are you talking bout me?”
162. When Ms Cutting said that swearing was okay only if you dropped a knife in your foot?
163. When Ms Allen tried to convince the class that the “right way” was being a muslim even though she is Catholic?
164. when Jamie fell off a skateboard standin completely still and broke his wrist, and had a dodgy blue cast for 6 weeks
165. when Cindy Wong wouldnt jump off the flying fox at yr 7 camp- and when she went out with Daniel Horvath?
166. when Horvath handed out gum balls in an attempt to gain popularity?
167. when a kookaburra swooped Sam Tulk and took a chicken tender OUT of her mouth?
168. when we found a frisby in a tree and hid it there every lunch until we go busted for climbing it
169. ’Super Happy Fun Day’ that wasnt really all that ’super’, ‘happy’ or ‘fun’? It was more like, “Super Happy Truant Day”.
170. the cleaner we named Hagrid beacuse he was sooo massive
171. the goannas that prowled us
172. when Esky was in a card board box and the guys carried her out into the pouring rain while the whole school watched
173. when Alan Liley dated Alison Kauter.
174. when Mr Kuma called the coping saw, ‘the cheezal’ and ply wood?
175. when Yr 12 got busted for talking in the library by the Dukes and the boys did a silent march in protest out of the library.
176. when the buses for Berowra were so packed we got left behind?
177. when choir was cool?
178. when Esky rolled in duck shit
179. when Annie was dropped on her head and had a country for a few weeks
180. when Campbell jumped on Hornsby Girls debating table and exclaimed “Oh, I’m sorry- I thought you accepted ALL newcomers!”
181. the pluvers?
182. when Ryan Kershaw was the tallest kid ever? - man child!
183. when Miss Van Duyan hated Tom and make him do push ups?
184. when Mrs thompson/Farr slammed the door in Elle’s face- and we got her fired?
185. MOVIE NIGHT- cattsss eyyeeesssss
186. when we all had to make up musicals in Yr 8 for music… and only one group actually did it.
187. THE BEEEPPP TEST!
188. Cross Country and the massive muddy hill
189. Our excursion in Year 7 to the Zoo where we drew all the animals?
190. Mr McKuan and his pointless ramble?
191. when Mr Gielis actually had an office in Tagore, rather than shipping him off to the storeroom in Churchill?
192. when Mr Fryirs used to threaten “Hurry up- or I’ll rip your arm off and slap you with the wet end!”
193. When we had no principal?
194. when it rained and the school filled up like a fishbowl with water everywhere
195. when Sam and Esky invented ‘HANDELS’
196. When all he teachers thought Tris was going to be a famous author…. when all he did was read books and rewrite them with different character names!
197. When Chloe Byrnes used to wear emo looking clothes.
198. When Ms Allen walked in and George yelled out “SPEAK OF THE DEVIL!” He got an amazing death stare!
199. When Alex Gurman went out with George and was dumped in the same minute.
200. When 7S and another year 7 class had to sing “My Island Home” at the talent quest way back… and Ryan Kershaw had to sing quietly because he was too loud.
201. MRS MACK… the one that treats you like you are in year 5…. “Yes Mrs Mack..” “Good morning Mrs Mack..”
202. When Daniel left our Society & Culture class and a month later we told him that we were doing a case study on the Simpsons? And that we were using YoYo’s to study?
203. That Indian kid called Armond… or whatever that went to our school in year 7?
204. when Ms Thompson had an argument with Harry in Year 10 English about Harry wearing the wrong jumper, and the argument ended in “How about NOOOO, Miss?”
205. when we had swim school in yr 7 and they made us jump in the pool in the morning to warm up, but no one would get out because it was so warm!
206. at swim school, how there was 7 groups and Alan Lilley was the only one in Group 1?
207. the former Miss Pettigrew in Year 9 English taking off her shoe and slamming it on the table to get everyone to be quiet?
208. when the buses werent so full, with year 7-8’s?
209. The original ‘CRUSH school dance’, with the uber breakers and everyone trying to dance like them. And Hayley Brown took every Crush flyer and changed it to ‘Thrush’?
210. When there was slide hockey and the school had that scoreboard with the obnoxious beeping in the Bini?
211. Reece Heeley getting sent home from Year 7 camp for hiding Ellie Iredale in our tent and saying to Mr. Gahan there wasn’t anyone in there?
212. Year boot camp
213. Year 9 -10 dance?
214. when the World Cup was on in Year 10 and we had those massive games of soccer on the hockey field in pouring rain with the whole school?
215. when Will Hourigan sang “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” in front of the whole school…enough said…
216. When the school soccer team actually won a game, and then another, and another, but then got pwned by Killara?
217. When we were in Year 8 and Year 12 kicked a soccer ball at the kookaburra and it didn’t move
218. In Year 10 Spanish when Jon Ong thought a tampon was a mouse?
219. The assembly during the World Cup in yr10, the yr12’s started the “Aussie, Aussie, Aussie” chant and the whole school got involved in it, including the deputies!!
220. All the little crushes you had on people throughout your school life, for reasons no one knows why??? That should be its own bulletin right there….
221. The yr10 FORMAL……and after parties :P:P
222. When John Lightbown screwed his knee whilst picking up a hacky sack.
223. When Hugh Scott had long hair.
224. When Jon ong handed out Jols.
225. ”Orrrh phil!”
226. When both Matt and Jesse crashed their cars!
227. When Myspace wasnt invented.
228. When we chucked people down the hill, back in year 9
229. When CPB was founded!!!!!!
230. Year 12 muck up race at swimming carnival!
231. CPB CPB CPB CPB CPB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
232. compulsary cross country
233. the snake ontop of the art cottage
234. trying to stop Ms Smith and her art theory trolley by putting the wheelie bin and branches all over the path
235. Mr baker standing on a chair right beneath the spinning fan!!!
236. Mr baker burning/melting his chair on the heater.
237. Crossroads and that plastic banana!!!
238. when Ms stapelton made our yr 7 class play soccer on the back oval with the giant puddles while she ‘looked after’ the boys netball team.
239. when Daniel Yip ran stright into one of the goal post to catch the ball during sport.
240. that murial in the Lincon stairwell that we never finished
241. Mr Minko and his ‘tittie dances’?
242. the BB gun incident?
243. when we could leave early on Tuesdays because there was SPORT!
244. Mr Pilko and his Tai Chi in class.
245. when the SRC put WATERPROOF dye in the fountain?
246. when all the girls where given those “How to Handle Sex” books in an assembly and all the boys wanted to know what it was about?
247.  when Miss Thompson always wore that hideous green dress?
248. when Ross broke windows in the canteen with the footy?
249. when we had to watch those inspirational movies at the start of school term
250. miss jay and her “Shooossshhh shooooosshhh”?
251. Mr Halsworth!
252. Mr Hall and his crosswords?
253. Bunsen burners?
254. those ugly arse goggle we had to wear in science?
255. peer support and all the little shits?
256. playing handball in fierce competitions?
257. when that massive crate wasnt on the back oval?
258. when Jon Ong pulled out a large torch and handed it to Olivia
259. the Dove chocolate and Starbusrt given to use by those vending machines?
260. Mufti Days?
261. When Katrina went out with Tom Martin for a week in Year 10?
262. When Lachlan put an alarm clock on his desk which rang off at the end of the last PDHPE exam
263. When at the Aussie Bush camp Ms Roberts/Pettigrew kept pulling up her G-string instead of her pants after canoeing, and everyone sat and watched
264. When Dale’s mum held a grade counselling session and all the girls cried
265. When Mr. Gielis invited anyone who was feeling a bit ‘chumpy’ to come to his office to talk about it and start an action plan together with him, after a discussion on his weight-loss progress instead of our HSC?
266. the School Certificate and all the fuss over nothing?
267. when Elle sprained her ankle on the back oval and got recused by the builder in his van-then carried to the office by Mr Griffith in his arms?
268. Year 7 science when Ms Rutter didnt properly attach the Bunsen burner and it came off the gas tap shotting out fire and it burnt Maddie’s arm hairs
269. Discmans?
270. the first time you got the back seat on the bus?
271. detentions in L1
272. Battle of the Bands - and all the insane groupies and moshers?
273. When Tom Dawson whinged to Ms Van Duyn that everyone was saying he plucked his eyebrows, and she replied “I know its not true… you WAX dont you Tom?”
274. The South African teacher reading the role: “Jono ABBO? Where’s Jono ABBO? WHAT?!  Why are you laughing at me? Do you think there’s something funny about the way I pronounce someone’s name?”
“Uhhhh, yeah. That, and Jono Abo isn’t even in this class.”
275. When Hayley Brown walked around for an entire lunchtime in a cardboard box dressed like Spongebob Squarepants.
276. When Skell asked Ms Phillips to the Year 10 Formal… and she denied his invitation.

KU-RING-GAI HIGH BINI’S BROTHEL PAST REVEALED

Dempsey’s Pimping Past Revealed (photo taken 1982)

My predictions for Ku-Ring-Gai…

I predict that Michael Moore will make a controversial documentary called “Printing for Ku-Ring-Gai” that will win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In the documentary, Daniel Horvath’s beatboxing skills will rise him to international fame that will be recognised by Doug E. Fresh.

Angela & Brooke will get married and adopt a ‘rainbow family’ (like Brangelina) from Nicaragua, Ghana and Mongolia.

Jono Abo will be signed by Ruffhouse Records and join them in their advocate promote legal strain cannibas.

Callum McDonald will host an open house party that will be intervened by the police, gaining him popularity as the ‘new Cory Delaney’.

Lyndsay Harper will develop his own cult following of non-conformists and be blamed for a school massacre, like Marilyn Manson was with the Columbine Massacres.

Sean Casey will get a job creating a cartoon for Adult Swim, that will be censored by the FCC because of graphic, sadomachosist and sacreligious content.

The library ladies will be gaoled over assulting a class of year 8’s with a volume of encyclopedias, leaving critical injuries and Ku-Ring-Gai short of a volume of encyclopedias.

Leo Peterson will break the world record for fleeing Ku-Ring-Gai to Cowan in less that 5 minutes by foot.

And Milo Curtis will be the first politician to get a 100% positive vote for Australian Prime Minister.