1 Attitude towards conference and general co-operation - 4/10
Students showed little interest with average attendance and late arrivals to the conference. Detention slips pending for truants and latecomers, and for talkative students at the back of the class.
2 Care of clothing and general standard of dress - 0/10
In general, students did little to dispel the stereotype of shockingly tasteless sweaters, ties and dresses. Several boys were seen to sport "inappropriate" hairstyles, both over-long and over-short.
3 Effort and attendance to what the platform speakers were saying - 6/10
Overall, students paid due attention. However, in the Accountancy Lesson (TUI Annual Finance Report) many students, who couldn't tell a balance sheet from a bed-sheet, did begin to daydream.
4 Participation in extra curricular activities - 11
Although many lacked physique for soccer team, they held their own in several disciplines, including drinking, chatting, smoking and complaining.
5 Babe count - Low
More The Golden Girls than Baywatch, although one or two of the junior girls looked set for the local roller-disco..
6 General observations Boys and girls might consider weightier matters than the usual pay/subscriptions row. It is no wonder the attendance considered striking - anything to get away from the rhetorical colloquialisms and mind-numbingly unfashionable dress sense of the annual congress. Must try harder.
Compiled by Dermot Looney (16), a transition year student at a south-west Dublin secondary school.