The Stupidity of Selling the Farm
My son Alex, who is 16 years old and just starting year 11, attends Hurlstone Agricultural School . It's a school that's been around for over 100 years, and has a couple of features that make it a fairly unique place to go to school. For a start, it's a state-run government school, but it also happen to be a boarding school. There are, to the best of my knowledge, only two government boarding schools in all of NSW. Secondly, it's an academically selective school. This means that for most students to attend the school they have to have a proven track record of academic achievement and some evidence that they are relatively bright. Thirdly, and perhaps the thing that makes it most unique, is that it is an agricultural school. As such, it offers mandatory (up to year 10) courses in agriculture, and the school is located on 276 acres of beautiful rolling farmland. It is, in fact, a fully working farm, complete with a commercial dairy, as well as raising cattle, chick...