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I went to a state school in Oz and for me a C was definitely shit. It was the lowest mark I got in VCE, it was in Chemistry, and was so shocking, a mate and I arranged some extra lessons with the teacher to help us fix it for the second semester. Definitely other kids wouldn't have bothered but I was trying damn hard to keep my options open for uni so I could escape the town. Other kids who were not interested in uni didn't care about a C and only stepped up if they were going to have to repeat something. My parents (one of which was a teacher) probably had more of an impact on my understanding of the need for a good education than school itself ever did.
I never thought about girls schools like that though. That sounds pretty cool even if I thought we were all pretty even at my secondary school. Even if what classes we did was even, you'd have louder lads (guilty) getting more attention and when it came time for electives I wonder if girls' choices went wildly different directions because of expectations on them or the general feeling of "this is for blokes what are you doing picking this subject". I did Home Eco for 4 years though so I could eat something at the end of a class haha S.M.R.T.