It's really odd! <br><br>ITA, which has run continuously <b>forever</b> with good numbers has barely scraped a class together for next year by combining year elevens and twelves into one small ITA class.<br><br>SD, which has only run every 3 or so years (with a small cohort when it did run), is nearly over-subscribed.<br>
<br>There don't seem to be any clear local causes for such a great change of attitude (e.g. changes of teachers or big changes in middle-years IT offerings) so I can only put it down to either something in the water, or the changes to the study design.<br>
<br>To be fair, I haven't heard kids explicitly blaming the ITA study design, and for some reason they seem dead keen on programming in our year 10 Info Systems elective. My year 11 IT classes have been dead quiet for 2 weeks with the kids busily coding in VB6. Last year I had to beat them with chairs to finish the VB material... this year I can sit up the front folding paper aeroplanes and clipping my toenails while they beaver away and sort out problems within their own ranks.<br>
<br>Odd!<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mark Kelly<br>Information Systems Manager; Reporting Manager<br>McKinnon Secondary College<br>McKinnon Rd McKinnon 3204, Victoria, Australia<br>Direct line / Voicemail: 8520 9085<br>School Phone +613 8520 9000, Fax +613 9578 9253<br>
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