‘School’

Press, 24 February 1987, Page 14

‘School’

By

ANDREA CARRIE,

aged 12,. of Christchurch Everyone knows, school is the best, even though your teachers you may detest. For future jobs and qualifications, attending school could be your salvation!

Be vet or doctor, dentist or pilot, maths is invaluable, none can deny it. But if at maths you are quite handy, there are some jobs that are just dandy.

Accountant, teller, census taker, mathematician, calculator. But if to maths you don’t pay heed, in the world you’ll not succeed! So you want to be a journalist, or writer or novelist but first of all, to reach your goal, at English you must excel.

You must know the comma and exclamation, the full stop, colon, and quotation. But if to English you don’t pay heed, as a writer you’ll not succeed.

So you’re short of cash, I thought as much, Mum’s birthday’s coming up. _ Why not write some science fiction the Junior Press is sure to print it. But yesterday when your teacher taught, about writing skills, did you TALK?

Because if you listened, you can be sure, that your story’s a winner, and you’re no longer poor. But if you talked, and told stupid jokes your story will be a washout, and you’ll also be broke.