Posts by Russell Brown
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Since then 'bad' schools have tried all sorts of ways to get around this and keep these kids out of their schools while 'good' schools have taken the challenge to be more inclusive and skilled in their teaching to address the diversity of needs and learning styles of their students.
Hell yes. There is, not far from us, a school in a very wealthy neighbourhood that has a nasty reputation for being actively hostile towards special-needs children. They really don't want them spoiling things.
I don't think I'm using 'good' and 'bad' in the same sense as John Roughan.
Heh.
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Alan - which ones? Genuinely curious.
Me too. Which generalisations rather than which schools, I mean.
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As I noted in the original post (written at great speed -- I'm relieved to return to find only a couple of errors in it), Roughan's cartoon depiction of teachers is remarkably offensive.
It's also a spectacularly lazy means of argument. Rather than engage with what people with direct knowledge of the issue say, it's much easier to make a ludicrous caricature of them and argue with that.
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I think it's more elitist than racist, as its mostly an exercise in cherry picking. There also seems something wrong in taking students who should have leadership roles in other schools and sending them to Grammar.
This is a very important point. "Success" becomes the creation of deficit in local schools and the communities that rely on them.
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Teabaggers hit the streets. Embarrassing, straight out of the gate:
Apparently the FreedomWorks tipsheet was all for nought.
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Those are the cream and are not what I'm talking about. The core income stream from non-sales is performance. APRA is doing verywell at the moment in this 'free' environment so clearly someone is paying and paying well, including much of the stuff that's coming off the net.
You know, I recall talking to Arthur Baysting at the supermarket a while ago and he was enthusing that APRA had just signed off its best year ever, it was tapping into the right revenue streams, and, by contrast, the record companies weren't getting it right.
True story!
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__He was acquitted of one charge of stupefaction after it was alleged he used Amyl Nitrite - a drug commonly used in homosexual activity - to render the victim unconscious.__
A drug commonly used in homosexual activity. Classy. It's possible that a change in judicidial language might also trickle through to court reporting.
To be fair, I'd guess ~90% of amyl use is by gay men. It's not unfair to call it a gay drug. But it's not a stupefying agent.
But the funny thing about that case is ... I'm given to understand that I know the man convicted, and have done for a long time. If so, it seems worth noting that he has never, to my knowledge, identified as gay.
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Oh, I'm sorry. Glenn Beck's an insane moron -- stop the presses.
Albeit one with a prominent cable "news" show, which gives him a head start on most insane morons.
Meanwhile, I thought Stewart was going to braid Nancy Pelosi's pubic hair with his tongue last time she was on.
That's awesome. It's good to have you back on the board.
You know who Pelosi is -- someone who actually has a significant role in passage of legislation?
It was much like most of his political interviews -- if Stewart doesn't have a particular bone to pick he keeps it jolly. But I fear I've lost track of your point here ...
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Must-read Greenwald on the DHS hysteria.
Cognitive dissonance doesn't seem a strong enough term.
And Sullivan:
But, hey. No hard feelings. Glad to have you back on the side of liberty.
One small question, though: Where the fuck have you been these past seven years?
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Latest Drudge lead: Texas governor declares sovereignty, asserts states' rights.
So all the wingnuts will now respect Iowa's decision on gay marriage?
Didn't think so ...
Meanwhile, Texas is spending Obama's stimulus money like a drunken sailor. Go figure. Because I certainly can't ...
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