Posts by Just thinking
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Just to link to the wider political stage we have:
Power Companies restructured due to the marketing success of Meridian, which our mixed grid made a lie of.
Teachers are under attack via an ambiguous policy that Hattie (the designer) is disavowing responsibility for and states it won't work. Snook corrected Tolleys ERO interpretation, Stoop remaind silent.
Now Doc & the HPT are being reviewd.
[edit: just as mineral exploration is being expanded into of National Parks] -
Russell, the number of new people contributing is a real testiment to your post.
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(sound from outside) knock, knock, crack...
(Roger Douglas appears through a broken window) -
Roger Douglas - Brains, brainsMum & Dad Kiwi - No Roger there are no Brains here, we invested in leaky Auckland Uni Student accomodation.
Roger Douglas - brains?
Mum & Dad Kiwi - No Roger.
Roger leaves despondent.
Mum & Dad Kiwi - whew glad that's over
Bill English appears at the window.
Mum & Dad Kiwi - Hi Bill.
Bill English - Brains, brains.
(Fade out.)
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Middleton Grange is a fundy Christian School & the values they celebrate are the ones of their church and home life (these parents smack - Simon Barnett et al).
The positive story for Middleton Grange is that they are from Year 1-13 and so have a strong family concept with most of the kids.
And they have a great Cobb Building.
It's not like Christchurch has a shortage of good state schools and it wouldn't be hard to get expelled by the sounds of it.
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If private schools were included in the standards, you'ld destroy an entire business sector.
Rangi Ruru charges $15,200 pa years 7 - 13 = $76,000 for little Trixiebells education.
This is the class divide & measuring purely Teritary Quals of Private & State School students isn't the whole story.
Private Schools (at least in Christchurch) trade on the advantages students get in life.
And weren't they right:
Plush home detention for privileged bank robber
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1392255 -
Tolleys actions remind me of the Prussian Officer selection matrix. Very energetic but doomed to fail.
ENERGETIC LAZY
COMPETENT 1 2
INCOMPETENT 3 4[edit, laid out well prior to posting]
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It's pretty clear this is an obtuse attack on teachers, and an ideological battle about unions and conditions.
We have the recognised best teaching system in the world. There isn't any argument that standards would change the mean, only an unproven hope by Hattie he could lift the bottom.
Hattie is saying pretty loudly now, that Tolley isn't going to do that.As for ERO saying 30% of teachers are bad, that's a normal distribution curve. Something the low rate of pay and witch hunts won't improve.
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Samual Scott, you are the profit margin.
Don't worry about me. we've been having a crate day :p
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I wanna see Octobriana liberate Cinderalla.
[Edit: Zoe Bell as Octobriana & Joslyn James as Cinderalla - unknown golfer as the Prince ]
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But you may not always be notified.