Posts by James Green
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I found this in part a bit racist- that the only sign of Maori and Pacific Island education achievement would be the percentage who were getting entry to Auckland Grammar.
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.
Having been educated in a place with no 'choice', I tend now to see that as a benefit.
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I don't think I'm using 'good' and 'bad' in the same sense as John Roughan.
Gold.
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Thanks for this post Russell. I read a herald article quoting John Morris as saying that with the introduction of zoning, the proportion of Māori and PI kids had dropped from 10% to 3.5%, and that that was a bad thing. It sounds all well and good until you realise that that's because they're no longer poaching the most academically and athletically gifted from other schools; hardly altruistic. I look forward to the day that someone suggests to Grammar that they should cede from the state school system if they're so unhappy with it.
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I collected some data on religion for a study I ran recently (as yet unpublished). In addition to asking about religious affiliation, we had a question on the extent to which religion influences your daily life, on a 7 point scale. Fully half of participants went with the "no influence" endpoint, and 70% were under the midpoint.
It was interesting, because in overseas research on the same topic, religion/religious influence had been quite a strong predictor. Here, nothing. -
clbuttic is good. I'm more used to random asterisking, but substitution extra entertaining. Oh, and thanks Mark, for explaining why I was occasionally having problems with attack.
And just while we're on bad language, may I commend Ernest the Engine.
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I've been wondering that too. There's potential for all kinds of mess in trying to unify all those systems in a year
Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy. And they should add a whole bunch of extra functionality to it as well, to free up frontline staff's time, and reduce cost back-room bureaucracy. And they should come up with a great acronym for the project, say INtegrated Council Information System (INCIS).
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The San Antonio model could be money-saving. "Council members are paid $20 a meeting, while the Mayor earns $4,000 a year". Umm, although perhaps only the independently wealthy could afford to donate their time at that rate.
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I always loved the concept of an area called Rodney, if we end up with a "Supercity" can we call it Brian?
Brian seems a possibility. Just so you're aware, Bruce is taken (the area around Milton was formerly the Bruce County).
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At 6.18pm after three glasses of wine? No, you may not.
Heh. Lucky I'm still working, hence procrastinating, and worked it out.
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OK. The 17,000 figure is likely Harbourside (4k) + Auckland Central East (7k) + Auckland Central West (7k).
That area is loosely the triangle water - SH1 - Symonds St