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\u00a377 per hour<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Becky Bone<\/em><\/p>\n nine thousand two hundred and fifty four hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty pence per week \u00a377 per hour<\/p>\n I was pretty good at maths natural like got a C at GCSE without trying no revision C grade was well good in my school I got a C in all my subjects Education, Education, Education art was my thing If I was studying maths, I\u2019d have access to various software packages like Maple and Matlab. \u00a377 per hour years spent thinking you missed out on something have you dreamed of writing that novel if I\u2019d a gone uni age 18 in the year 2000 won\u2019t it be strange when we\u2019re all fully grown expectations are bastards books included \u00a377 per hour by Becky Bone nine thousand two hundred and fifty9250pounds per year (1 year = 20 weeks) four hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":12995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2283],"class_list":["post-12997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-tuition-fees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/521"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
9250
pounds per year (1 year = 20 weeks)<\/p>\n
divided by
6 hours contact time per week<\/p>\n
Zoom you chased the day away
remember we sang in maths us The Band
me drums her vocals she lead guitar remember Kurt commits suicide
singing that song from the seventies miming instruments with our bodies Michael looks different
you both wrote don\u2019t forget the band in my leaving book
that rests between other memorabilia in a decorative Ikea make it yourself cardboard box
on top of my wardrobe
I haven\u2019t forgotten<\/p>\n
I got a C in english
journaling for ten minutes of each hour I don\u2019t wanna wait for our lives to be over
mine filled with lists
lists of stuff I wanted
TLC cd Levi 501s United Colors of Benetton bag Michael\u2019s face keeps changing
lists of friends I needed if you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our
lists of boys I loved or said I loved roaming incognito across the boy-obsessed playing field
The president of America admits affair with his intern
there are
drawings of a yin-yang symbol a Pepsi can various types of shoes Forever Friends bears
a fat spliff accompanied with the slogan \u2018Soaked With Dope\u2019
Four Weddings star arrested in car with Sunset Strip prostitute
there are
before and after make-over drawings of character creations like Vanessa Wilks from Manchester and a woman with big head small body OJ Not Guilty
there\u2019s an unhealthy obsession with East 17 Alright alright everything\u2019s gonna be alright
and stickers from Smash Hits Magazine of
Jim Carrey Jarvis Cocker PJ and Duncan Dieter Brummer R Kelly
A princess dies following a chase by paparazzi through a Paris tunnel
there\u2019s plagiarism
(I innocently copied a Purple Ronnie poem from a greetings card to which my teacher wrote
Did you make this up? Merit if you did) I got a merit Girl Power
there\u2019s boredom
Well I am sitting here bored and not knowing what to write. Oh yeah. I want a pair of shoes. I love shoes.
there\u2019s drama
Last night me Sarah and Katie went to find Jason. He was saying things about Katie but it was a lie.
there\u2019s suspense
Tonight me and Sarah are going with Sofie to see Robert W. He wants to see Sofie but we don\u2019t know why.
there\u2019s joy
I\u2019m quite happy at the moment as I\u2019ve got some new shoes.
there\u2019s this
I feel really weird at the moment as if I\u2019m really angry or something. I feel like screaming really loud but I don\u2019t know why. Something\u2019s really bugging me! Oh well!!!!<\/p>\n
except french if the teacher pops a test I know I\u2019m in a mess
I sat next to that girl who fancied Grant from Eastenders
we all cussed her for it
coz we all fancied Joe Wicks who covered his room in tin foil and newspaper clippings
Allo Tony I think we might use a video replay here
a man gets slapped in the face by a fat man painted orange
I got an E
but who needs a second language anyway football doesn\u2019t come home
and when I\u2019m older I ain\u2019t gonna go on holiday to france<\/p>\n
I got a C
everyone\u2019s given a thing but the thing is there\u2019s probably more than one thing
Michael settles child abuse case out of court by paying millions to the alleged victim\u2019s family
that defines everyone but once people know what your thing is you sort of get labelled
pigeonholed and believe that\u2019s the only thing
Mr Soft won\u2019t you tell me why the world in which you\u2019re living is so strange
there was a documentary on about school in the nineties
Michael performs Earth Song at The Brits but Jarvis Cocker appears bends over mimes a fart lifts his top up and is chased off stage
some kids attended nineties style art lessons
all they did was draw still lifes and that\u2019s exactly what we did
no ideas no concepts
but I learnt how to draw a very life like bowl of fruit with a violin propped up against a
fabric draped mannequin torso and in the same year
Tracey Emin made her bed
I made a ceramic Doc Martin
but I never went back to collect it when I left<\/p>\n
If I was studying biomedicine, I\u2019d have access to state-of-the-art facilities.
If I was studying computing, I\u2019d have access to air-conditioned computing laboratories.<\/p>\n
I have access to the library
I bought my own notepad and pen<\/p>\n
do something about it learn the tools
is this it build your craft
at least you\u2019re thinking find your voice
telling yourself unlock the writer within
mind opening
\u00a377 per hour
value for money?
\u00a377 per hour
space to think?
paid \u00a31.50 for an hours bus journey and thought the whole time<\/p>\n
the maximum I\u2019d a paid woulda been 3000
1000 per year millennium bug disaster warning
if my parent\u2019s means were tested I\u2019d a paid nothing student debt to hit \u00a357,000 for the poorest
but who knows what\u2019s best or what to do at
18 25 32 37 50 61 it\u2019s you it\u2019s me it could be you
we do what we do at the time in the moment just because
we make a change because something has to change or we go stale like a sliced loaf
fed to the ducks
but that\u2019s not allowed anymore because ducks are wheat intolerant<\/p>\n
nothing
to compare levels of distress and illness among students in UK alarmingly high
the thing you\u2019re expecting to
but what would you expect for
\u00a377 per hour<\/p>\n
theatre tickets
regular meetings with your personal tutor (you forget their name)
canapes for fifteen
I don\u2019t know
a summer term
a plumber
exceptional teaching whatever that is (remember it\u2019s \u00a377 per hour per person)
average possibly good cocaine
a guaranteed book deal
clean toilets
a therapist
you\u2019re not sure
a guaranteed well paid job at the end
printing and photocopying included
prosecco
a really good fuck
being fucked over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"