"At Pal College, we know how to make the learning process work best for students. We believe that there is no other high school or college that is focused as strongly as we are on teaching a student to achieve his or her individual potential." from that quote on your schools website, the focus at your school is on the quality of the teaching.. which means more students with higher UAIs than the average high schools ive been and taught in. ive been in schools where you wonder if/when a certain kids are gonna end up in pregnant/in jail/dead by the age of 18.. (ive been told NOT to even think about that.) schools where you knwo for sure that certain kids are never ever gonna get a job after year 10, and obviously the parents arent paying the same amount in school fees that your parents had. consider yourself lucky! if your parents didnt pay up, youd be stuck in a lesser quality school full of distractions like some of the students ive had to teach! and if a teacher isnt teaching their topics, they would be dealing with kids behaviours, whcih means less time to actually TEACH. obviously the schools ive been in have a lot of problem students. totally different world to be in than the type of school youve just come from!