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A FORMER student who is suing Geelong Grammar School says she decided to seek damages after she failed to qualify for her preferred university course.

Rose Ashton-Weir, 18, alleges Geelong Grammar gave her inadequate academic support, particularly in maths.

Seeking compensation in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, she said her final secondary school score was too low to study law at the University of Sydney.

Advertisement: Story continues below Of her time at Geelong Grammar, she said: ''I didn't ever feel I was getting the support I needed to really excel.''

Ms Ashton-Weir boarded at the school in 2008 and 2009 but finished her secondary studies at a TAFE college in Sydney. She is in the first year of a double degree in arts and sciences at the University of Sydney.

Her mother, Elizabeth Weir, is also suing the school for lost income and other expenses.

She said she gave up her chocolate fortune cookie business - which she had expected to make $450,000 over three years - because her daughter moved from Geelong to live with her in New South Wales.

She is also seeking compensation for $39,000 in rent paid when they moved to another house in Sydney.

Earlier this week, Ms Weir said the school had known her daughter was gifted and had scored highly in an intelligence test, but struggled in maths.

Yesterday, Ms Ashton-Weir told the tribunal a teacher at Geelong Grammar had criticised her for using words that were too long, which had left her confused and had made her doubt her ability to write essays. She became ''quite distressed'' when her English marks began to fall.

Darren Ferrari, representing Geelong Grammar, said Ms Ashton-Weir could have studied law at several other universities. ''You could have done law at Deakin University by correspondence,'' he said.

He said Ms Ashton-Weir had been placed on ''internal suspension'' a number of times while at the school. She was also poorly organised and had been absent from class many times.

Ms Ashton-Weir fell ill with glandular fever in early 2009 and went to stay with her mother at the end of term two. She did not return to Geelong Grammar.

Mr Ferrari said the school had tried to support Ms Ashton-Weir. ''The school wanted her to get through the year.''

He said Ms Ashton-Weir's school reports noted she was intelligent but failed to complete school work.

The hearing will resume in August.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/school-failed-to-get-me-into-law-20120516-1yrcb.html

And so the "nothing is ever my own fault" juggernaut rolls on.
I don't know which case is more pathetic out of the aforementioned, and this recent one:

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A 13-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl is being sued by a classmate over a tennis court mishap at one of Queensland's top private schools in the latest blow to playground fun.
The legal claim, over a bruised eye, has raised concerns that "litigation-crazy'' parents could threaten the future of school sport by forcing up insurance costs.

http://www.news.com.au/national/classmate-sues-schoolgirl-13-over-tennis-court-mishap/story-e6frfkvr-1226335841707#ixzz1v6MTNyQO

Sprintcyclist wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 2:56pm:

She said she gave up her chocolate fortune cookie business - which she had expected to make $450,000 over three years - because her daughter moved from Geelong to live with her in New South Wales.

Hmmm, why didn't the mother see this coming?

LOL.

Surely she's havin a larf in caliming $150K a year for fortune cookies too? I haven't had much experience with the big fortune cookie multinational conglomerates, but I can't imagine it's that lucrative a market.

<<Surely she's havin a larf in caliming $150K a year for fortune cookies too?>>
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They're not called fortune cookies for nothing.

I'll go out on a limb and say she'll win the case. She paid a small fortune and got ripped off. She paid for a service and she didn't get it.

She's still got plenty of time to do the law degree after the arts one. I wonder why she was so set on Sydney uni though, she could have gone to other uni's.

I think the family might be a little too concerned with status.

I think it's about time schools were held to account. I've seen kids going through the public school process without being taught to read and write. Halls are all well and good, but teachers aids would be money better spent.

This better be laughed out of court.

mainstream discourse is so full now with the idea that educational institutions can make you smart or accomplished (only your genes and your motivation can do that) its no surprise she thinks like this.

if more people were schooled in the heritability of i.q and its importance in determining individual differences in educational achivement private schools would probably make a lot less money.

Exactly. You can tell there's an issue with her genes right there. Look at that self-righteous look on her face.

The bitch.

Uncle Meat wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 3:33pm:

Sprintcyclist wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 2:56pm:

She said she gave up her chocolate fortune cookie business - which she had expected to make $450,000 over three years - because her daughter moved from Geelong to live with her in New South Wales.

Hmmm, why didn't the mother see this coming?

Well, sometimes that's just the way the cookie crumbles.

Big Donger wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:19pm:

Exactly. You can tell there's an issue with her genes right there. Look at that self-righteous look on her face.

The bitch.

that was exactly my thinking - totally stuckup bitch.
her mum backing her the whole selfish way. I'll bet the dad has been scammed to his last penny.

Big Donger wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:19pm:

Exactly. You can tell there's an issue with her genes right there. Look at that self-righteous look on her face.

The bitch.

i dont think there was anything 'wrong' with her besides the fact that she was either not smart enough, not committed enough, or some combination of the two.

i knew some kid whose parents spent tens of thousands to send to some awesome private school a town over and he turned out to be a retard by the end of it hahaha

dun ked

JC Denton wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 10:01am:

Big Donger wrote on May 17^th, 2012 at 9:19pm:

Exactly. You can tell there's an issue with her genes right there. Look at that self-righteous look on her face.

The bitch.

Imperium, are you saying retardism is learned behaviour, and not genetic?

no i mean he was a retard when he went in

retard when he went out

garbage in garbage out

His parents should have sent him to a special school then.

Isn't there an IM class at Dubbo High?

he wasnt a tard kind of tard

he was just dumbo

Invite him to moderate on this board, Imperium.

hey its not you'd be able to tell the difference

waka waka waka

Get him a job on Matty's campaign committee.

JC Denton wrote on May 18^th, 2012 at 10:48am:

Can you spot the odd one out and - where's Matty?

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