Posts by Ross Mason
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Sacha,
They were close to the front so that they could which Auckland School Tie the presenter was wearing.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
B is for bozzo.
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to David Hood,
Boom!!!!
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Comic Sans. Now it is here I suggest lies the chasm between C. P. Snow's "Two Cultures". Any physicist worth his spin couldn't give a brass razoo what the font looks like. It is the message sunshine!
(Generalisation statement coming up - All hold breath now)
I HATE to say it, but I hazard a guess that it is the BAs of this world, trying to understand science, who are the ones who got their knickers in a twist over the font.
FFS. Just be thankful it wasn't in German. 'Cos that is what every poor bastard prior to 1970(ish) had to learn to even get a BSc.
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But why can't schools write their data the same way and in the same formats? I thought that was what Nat Stds was all about. Sameness.
Hey! Youse schools!!
Keep sending in data that is "ropey", "patchy", "difficult to interprete" and "difficult to create anything coherent for parents".
Waaait a minute...we need a competition. Which school sends in the "best" set of (incomprehensible) data wins a special needs teacher.
Oh dear....
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We ignored that, and I really want to emphasise how supportive the people we dealt with directly at TVNZ were -- most notably, Philippa Mossman, Oliver Seely, Juliet Jensen and Paul Fairless. They're good people.
And Juliet joined motherhood about a month ago. Perfectly timed!!!
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Lilith __,
It's $100 for invalid beneficiaries. Not sure I understand the rationale for that...
There ya go. Easy. All beneficiaries are hereby in-valid.
Edit add; "Talkbackistan". Noice.
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Nambassa. 1929 Austin 16/6. Tent. Togs. Tan. Swimming and rescuing two people in jeans outside the breakers. Nutters. There was a drowning just after we left the beach.
Even the girlfriend (now wife) went topless. Surprised!You missed one. Little River Band.
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Peter O'Connors opinion piece in the DomPost
National standards measuring narrowly defined curriculum outputs will be used to generate blunt and meaningless league tables. These will in turn create fear and suspicion about neighbourhood schools. This is designed to increase the public appetite for private forms of education, including charter schools. The attacks, justified with the cliched spin of improving student achievement, are essentially about reducing the role of state provision of education.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I don’t know and I’d be happy to see data to the contrary, but my feeling is that most families in NZ have much less choice than you describe. It’s only in the big cities that schools are close enough for families to be in range of more than one.
What he said. A pertinent observation. The agrarian sector has little choice over their kids schooling. It's the local or boarding school. I have a giggle when the urban parents go out of their way to take advantage (?) of rural schools that are close to the suburbs around towns. "I want my kids to get a country education" like. Whereas in the burbs the proximity of schools gives an (un)enviable choice for parents.
Now. Tongue firmly in cheek here........too much time to ponder maybe??