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Rabidlamb · 28-05-2012, 15:18

. . . and did it have an influence on your future career.

There was always a snobbishness thing about the CBS over the Tech.
The Tech never did themselves any favours with their poor academic results, awful drop out rate aswell.
The CBS was meant for kids going on to 3rd level & the Tech was for lads going on to do apprenticeships.

Is this still the case or have the Tech's raised their game academically ?.
I'd like to know what people ended up as as a product of both systems.

I went to the CBS & ended up as a degree qualified engineer.
I've a brother who attended the Tech but got expelled at 14, now unemployed.
2 sisters who went to the convent ended up as a teacher & a bank official.

**Logical Fallacy** · 28-05-2012, 15:19

I guess the Tech had the advantage of fewer rapes.

phasers · 28-05-2012, 15:22

What's a tech? Is that like a pobalscoil?

mikemac1 · 28-05-2012, 15:23

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What's a tech? Is that like a pobailscoil?

School run by your local VEC

What's a pobailscoil? I don't know that one

Biggins · 28-05-2012, 15:24

I went to the CBS.

That said, fellow students in my CBS class ended up as drug-pushers, crooks and concert pianists.
They could have become any of those if they wanted to, had they attended any of the options you listed.

Orando Broom · 28-05-2012, 15:30

Boarding school in the Austrian Tyrol.

Nothingbetter2d · 28-05-2012, 15:31

i went to both.

the CBS in carlow upto 6th year but i repeated my leaving in the Tech.

imo the tech was actually the better of the two schools.

1. CBS was boys only Tech was co-ed
2. The tech offered more subject choice than the cbs
3. The tech in carlow also has PLC courses the CBS didnt.

squod · 28-05-2012, 15:31

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Originally Posted by Biggins

I went to the CBS.

That said, fellow students in my CBS class ended up as drug-pushers, crooks and concert pianists.
They could have become any of those if they wanted to, had they attended any of the options you listed.

Few penists in my old school.

Dudess · 28-05-2012, 15:31

All girls convent - may cause sexual repression or rampant promiscuity. Both not necessarily independent of each other.

Nothingbetter2d · 28-05-2012, 15:33

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Originally Posted by Dudess

All girls convent - may cause sexual repression or rampant promiscuity. Both not necessarily independent of each other.

any experimental lesbianism happen there?

**bluewolf** · 28-05-2012, 15:33

neither

phasers · 28-05-2012, 15:36

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Originally Posted by mikemac1

School run by your local VEC

What's a pobailscoil? I don't know that one

That's what the non-church school around here is called, it's Irish for public school I think. Weirdly it's not a Gaelscoil.

Mr.Biscuits · 28-05-2012, 15:39

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Originally Posted by Logical Fallacy

I guess the Tech had the advantage of fewer rapes.

If we stick to the pupils, maybe.

mikemac1 · 28-05-2012, 15:42

No soccer teams in our CBS, just not the done thing
No rugby either

It's GAA or GTFO

We played rounders too which I think is originally an old Irish game.
Used to love the rounders

fearcruach · 28-05-2012, 15:47

Went to a Tech, qualified as a pharmacist and work for a major pharmaceutical company. A fried of mine in the same year is currently studying in Notre Dame Universtity in the USA to complete his PhD.

So it's not all bad. To be fair, the general results weren't great but a lot of us did go to 3rd level.

28-05-2012, 15:18	#1
Rabidlamb Registered User Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,168 Adverts \| Friends	Did you go to the Tech or the CBS/Convent ? . . . and did it have an influence on your future career. There was always a snobbishness thing about the CBS over the Tech. The Tech never did themselves any favours with their poor academic results, awful drop out rate aswell. The CBS was meant for kids going on to 3rd level & the Tech was for lads going on to do apprenticeships. Is this still the case or have the Tech's raised their game academically ?. I'd like to know what people ended up as as a product of both systems. I went to the CBS & ended up as a degree qualified engineer. I've a brother who attended the Tech but got expelled at 14, now unemployed. 2 sisters who went to the convent ended up as a teacher & a bank official.

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Logical Fallacy Moderator Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Praying for rain...praying for tidal waves. Posts: 5,809 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Electronic Music & DJ'ing	I guess the Tech had the advantage of fewer rapes.

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phasers Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 17,440 Adverts \| Friends	What's a tech? Is that like a pobalscoil?

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Biggins Banned Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Ireland Posts: 33,440 Adverts \| Friends	I went to the CBS. That said, fellow students in my CBS class ended up as drug-pushers, crooks and concert pianists. They could have become any of those if they wanted to, had they attended any of the options you listed.

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Orando Broom Registered User Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 3,287 Adverts \| Friends	Boarding school in the Austrian Tyrol.

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Nothingbetter2d Closed Account Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,961 Adverts \| Friends	i went to both. the CBS in carlow upto 6th year but i repeated my leaving in the Tech. imo the tech was actually the better of the two schools. 1. CBS was boys only Tech was co-ed 2. The tech offered more subject choice than the cbs 3. The tech in carlow also has PLC courses the CBS didnt.

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mikemac1 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 8,562 Adverts \| Friends	No soccer teams in our CBS, just not the done thing No rugby either It's GAA or GTFO We played rounders too which I think is originally an old Irish game. Used to love the rounders

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fearcruach Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 327 Adverts \| Friends	Went to a Tech, qualified as a pharmacist and work for a major pharmaceutical company. A fried of mine in the same year is currently studying in Notre Dame Universtity in the USA to complete his PhD. So it's not all bad. To be fair, the general results weren't great but a lot of us did go to 3rd level.