Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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I/m from a large family: there can be problems: there were.
We had whitebait for breakfast (our recipe is simple -one eggo shit my new Mac will not do mail -e
Looks like the Mac is attempting modern poetry.
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I can sing you the chant I learned of the symbols for the first 20 elements but couldn't tell you what the elements are or even which letters represent the sounds I'm saying
Hydrogen heelee beebee k-noff... -
Disturbing is when you (and a friend obviously) are half-naked and getting sweaty in the back seat of a taxi and the driver still persists in attempting to engage your interest in the rugby.
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Aha - that explains why that scene seemed to jump around a bit.
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At my parent's house. Wine, food, old friends dropping by. Kids all tucked up. Notes for santa left. Waiting to be certain the wee ones are asleep before hitting the sherry and baby-jesus shaped cookies (which though much smaller are more popular than Mary, Joseph or the angel)
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I'm hoping he didn't print the comments.
His father, who supervised the operation, assures me he didn't.
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The seven-year-old liked that so much he insisted on printing it out to keep. The rest of us thought it was pretty nifty too.
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re: cheating
Like Emma I think that in the NZ setting that sort of wide-scale cheating is unlikely to happen (and, also like Emma, I've chosen schools (Discovery1 currently) where it's unlikely to be relevant) but, even if it were one of the this I'd like my children to learn (even more than I want them to learn literacy or numeracy) is the value of doing what is right over what is profitable.
(could I construct a paragraph with more parentheses?)
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Meaning your children are competing not just with individual cheaters but whole networks of children cheating for a better future?
If they are cheating then there is no way of accurately assessing their own progress and therefore no chance of their teachers knowing what it is they need to learn. And, in general, cheaters do eventually get caught out (if not by being caught in the act then by having to admit incompetence in a "real-world" situation they are only technically qualified for).
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'doh I think I briefly forgot that logging out was an option *blushes*
lets see if that's done it