Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Emma Hart,
She’s a psychiatrist. So when she talks about locking someone up in a psychiatric institution? It’s not quite so funny. And BDSM is still in the DSM.
Sorry, didn't think of that. That's...sickening, actually.
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
And what’s so fucking disappointing is that there is a huge discrepancy between women in science and women in leadership roles in science pretty much because of the difficulties Lucy describes.
Well, let's be honest, even if a perfect solution to the child-having question emerged tomorrow women would still be underrepresented in leadership, because of a bunch of other stuff. But it doesn't *help*. And damned if I ever see or hear a male grad student considering how their career might impact their child-rearing.
Thank you, Chris, I’m now as angry as Lucy is. There are some more reasons I’m an unfit mother: I should be in a psychiatric institution.
You know that she just actually has no idea what she's talking about, right? Not that it helps, but.
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
grrrr Thank you for pointing out that the degree which is actually a frigging nightmare to complete is less important than the biological act that pretty much everyone can do (admittedly to varying levels of competence).
And, you know, it's not as if women in science don't spend A FUCKING LOT OF TIME considering childcare availability and career progress and whether you should have kids before or during or after your PhD or during postdocs or when you get tenure or before you get tenure or whether research science is even compatible with having kids NO WE NEVER THINK OF THOSE THINGS AT ALL, CHEERS, MIRIAM.
And if you think that was an overdose of capslock I won't treat you to my response to the idea that marriage and a PhD are things you can't do at the same time. Leaving aside the problems with the idea that every woman wants to get...okay, I'm going to go fume in my corner now.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to BenWilson,
Old, proven, effective, reliable, unbeatably efficient.
I'll grant you old, sure.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to BenWilson,
MInd you, a cardboard ticket that the driver clips, or simply looks at, is pretty damned fast, gets money off people, and costs next to nothing to set up.
Still not fast enough for rush-hour commuting on a crowded system, I think – the driver has to take it, look at it, ascertain which square hasn’t been punched, punch it, hand it back…it’s not as fast as you might think, in a situation where you need to onload people *quickly*. There’s no reason you couldn’t have an electronic card system and conductors for crowd control/questioning, though, if you wanted them. The functions are not the same.
ETA: Plus, everything Matthew said above.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Miro,
Sorry I have to come to the defense of some higher decile schools (primary at least). If they are going to have a decent operational budget to cover the running of the school, they have no choice but to seek money from their community. For some up to 40 % of their operational budget (excludes teacher salaries) comes form locally sourced funds. Voluntary donations (not illegal fees) is a relatively easy way to get some of this. Regardless of who holds the treasury benches I don’t see this changing soon.
There are definitely some differences in what people consider "the running of the school", though. Going with Wgtn East and Wgtn Coll, which are deciles 7 and 10 respectively IIRC, neither low - East's donations are set at$225-360 for 1-3+ children (plus $125 for IT, which may or may not be a one-off - I can't recall - and a number of activity fees, which vary from student to student.) Coll's are set at $720-1210 for 1-3 (not 3+). Neither is free education - most school websites I checked strongly encourage people to think of donations as mandatory, if only by implication - but one is somewhat higher than the other.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Lucy, Roseneath is just more au fait with Wellington College values than Hataitai. It’s all about the character of the school…
Oh, I am quite familiar with Wellington College's...character.
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To lessen the fear the media have caused over these issues, Mrs Rinehart suggests that the media should also permit to be published that climate change has been occurring naturally since the earth began, not just the views of the climate extremists.
There's paranoid claims of vindictive censorship and then there's....this.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Of course, Newlands is the other side of the motorway.
Not just that, it's on the other side of, specifically, *Ngauranga Gorge*, which is a pretty damn effective geographical barrier. There's no such obvious explanation for why Coll encompasses, frex, Roseneath but not Hataitai.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The point is that the lower decile schools close by Wgtn Coll are out of zone for their local secondary school while higher decile ones across town are zoned in. So Newtown boys have to bus a few kilometres away to lower decile Rongotai College and airport noise.
I wonder how you'd come up with a widely-applicable set of rules for zoning? It's obviously not possible for schools to always be in the epicentre of their zone. In the matter of Coll v. Rongotai, I don't think it's actually possible for Coll to ever be very far from the southern edge of its zone, unless they overlapped significantly.
Similarly, Wgtn East (my former school) excludes some fairly close-by suburbs in favour of serving the entire south and east of the city - the difference being that those suburbs are the wealthy ones.But I'd have thought there were, or should be, some general guidelines for zoning which started with "your zone will not be approved if it excludes nearby areas unless there are very good reasons for it".