Posts by giovanni tiso
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And I still can't believe Roger Douglas using words like "entitlement" and "right" when it comes to getting to taxpayer to pay for his holidays! How can he be serious?
Bear in mind he does fancy himself to be the saviour of the country. I'm surprised he hasn't demanded the ius primae noctis yet.
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As I previously mentioned, climbing the social ladder then taking the ladder with them.
Hah! That's quite priceless.
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No could someone explain what that means... that in the future we'll all be laughing at postmodernists... how long do I have to wait?
Bearing in mind that Hayles is far from dismissive of Postmodenism overall, I think the future she describes in relation to that particular contention of hers is here already, thanks in no small part to her own work. The book's ten years old.
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That's pretty much my favourite quote of hers. Also, Erik Davis is a God.
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My poor old brain struggles to encompass it and I constantly critique it for loss of necessary human ways of being.
May I suggest hitting these people on the head with Katherine Hayles' How We Became Posthuman? The hardcover edition has really sharp corners.
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With those looks you don't really need to be educated, surely.
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If Mr. Litterick counts as a reference, then that's the one I'm using.
Thanks for the reminder, it contains one of my favourite paragraph of 2009:
Some children may well have special needs and choices, such as being allergic to the proletariat or yearning to wear tartan, but it is not a requirement of democracy that these be met at public expense.
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Vigilante justice for children. Love it.
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Yes, different funding, although the repercussions on the schools are yet to be seen. ORRS is not paid to schools either, but schools benefit greatly from it.
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Please do explain further for everyone, as I have to dash.
The actual reason is that they don't care, or don't care enough to fight that particular battle. And it is a battle - special needs education is systematically under-resourced, therefore each kid you take on, if you plan to fulfill your obligations as mandated by the ministry of education, drains resources from elsewhere in the school. Eventually, the ministry is going to ask you why you're not doing the other things you're supposed to be doing as a school, like looking after your property. And you'll be in trouble.
Like in government, it's a matter of setting priorities. The parents of special needs kids will choose the school that puts their kids first, thus relieving those that don't from having to discriminate them more actively.