Tasmania (and Australia generally) extremely bad educational standards
#31
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It's not common around the world and Australia has got it right and the rest have got it wrong
Our country is better off for this policy
#32
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I'm only proposing this for the asshole kids who won't learn and their bogan/chav parents
Last edited by Amazulu; Feb 20th 2014 at 12:43 pm.
#36
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Sure but only in response to those who start in on me - check it out
But you have a point. I'm a stubborn SOB and always feel the need to respond. Maybe I should let it go over my head - as I'm sure you always do
But you have a point. I'm a stubborn SOB and always feel the need to respond. Maybe I should let it go over my head - as I'm sure you always do
#37
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.... and parents are screaming that kids are doing too much homework - ie, they want homework to be discontinued.
Every Wednesday evening, I walk past the local netball court, and the number of kids who should be doing homework, are play in the weekly competition (not to mention other sports that are played during the week).
When I was that age, I was never allowed to go outside or watch "the idiot box", as my dad used to call it, until homework was finished.
Every Wednesday evening, I walk past the local netball court, and the number of kids who should be doing homework, are play in the weekly competition (not to mention other sports that are played during the week).
When I was that age, I was never allowed to go outside or watch "the idiot box", as my dad used to call it, until homework was finished.
#38
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Thanks, you've just reminded me to email youngest kids teachers to let them know she may not have finished homework (was going to the library before school today to give it a go). She spends too much time at the ballet studio - she has Wednesday afternoons and every second Sunday off at the moment. Terrible mother I am. But look at it this way, the eldest girl child will be qualified to teach dance by the time she leaves school, so if Uni is not on top of her priority list, she's a dual citizen, she can go off and teach dance overseas or grab a job at Disneyland, on a cruise ship, whatever for a year or two until she decides what she wants to do with her education. Sometimes those kids on the netball court are working just as hard towards their future goals as the kids swatting over their books in their bedroom.
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Thanks, you've just reminded me to email youngest kids teachers to let them know she may not have finished homework (was going to the library before school today to give it a go). She spends too much time at the ballet studio - she has Wednesday afternoons and every second Sunday off at the moment. Terrible mother I am. But look at it this way, the eldest girl child will be qualified to teach dance by the time she leaves school, so if Uni is not on top of her priority list, she's a dual citizen, she can go off and teach dance overseas or grab a job at Disneyland, on a cruise ship, whatever for a year or two until she decides what she wants to do with her education. Sometimes those kids on the netball court are working just as hard towards their future goals as the kids swatting over their books in their bedroom.
Wait a minute "Hi it's Johnny's mother here. He didn't bring home his blue lunch box today. I don't suppose you've seen it lying around the classroom"
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Yes, it's extremely handy that. I don't use it much and thankfully, I don't have constant emails from teachers moaning about my kids.
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My mate is a single dad. He gets copied in on the emails flinging between the bored housewives. He takes great joy in forwarding them on. Usually 20 emails starting of about Charlotte's lost jumper and ending in Byron's lost lunch box.
#42
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Really, gone of the days when the teacher would send you home with a note, that you subsequently tore up before mum read it.
My mate is a single dad. He gets copied in on the emails flinging between the bored housewives. He takes great joy in forwarding them on. Usually 20 emails starting of about Charlotte's lost jumper and ending in Byron's lost lunch box.
My mate is a single dad. He gets copied in on the emails flinging between the bored housewives. He takes great joy in forwarding them on. Usually 20 emails starting of about Charlotte's lost jumper and ending in Byron's lost lunch box.
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Good post Kim.
To be fair, uni is not the be all and end all.
I have never expected my kids to be high achievers academically: it's them I am interested in, as all-rounders.
To be fair, uni is not the be all and end all.
I have never expected my kids to be high achievers academically: it's them I am interested in, as all-rounders.
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Really, gone of the days when the teacher would send you home with a note, that you subsequently tore up before mum read it.
My mate is a single dad. He gets copied in on the emails flinging between the bored housewives. He takes great joy in forwarding them on. Usually 20 emails starting of about Charlotte's lost jumper and ending in Byron's lost lunch box.
My mate is a single dad. He gets copied in on the emails flinging between the bored housewives. He takes great joy in forwarding them on. Usually 20 emails starting of about Charlotte's lost jumper and ending in Byron's lost lunch box.
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Shakespeare, very little use I imagine but it was part of the higher level English course.
Spanish, is of massive use, any second language is. In many jobs for sure, its an advantage. Plus in Countries like USA its almost as useful as knowing English.
In his personal case he will be studying BA Health, (emergency medicine, paramedic), I imagine Paramedics with more than one language are pretty useful.
Spanish, is of massive use, any second language is. In many jobs for sure, its an advantage. Plus in Countries like USA its almost as useful as knowing English.
In his personal case he will be studying BA Health, (emergency medicine, paramedic), I imagine Paramedics with more than one language are pretty useful.
I tihnk Zulu likes to 'tell it as it is' but he also overeggs it...the key is to understand the spirit of what he is saying - plenty of people call him out just for being a saffer...