Posts by linger
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Up Front: I Swear, It's True, in reply to Moz,
A motorist is just a more rapid wanker, innit.
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Polity: Hekia's waynebrave, in reply to Tom Semmens,
So is Hooton the fool shilling, or not?
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Legal Beagle: The law to make it easier…, in reply to izogi,
I/S answers that question pretty clearly:
Its another National spam bill, containing a trivial provision presumably plucked from the Statutes Amendment Bill pile, designed purely to fill a ballot slot and prevent something more substantive from being drawn. Another example of how National abuses the Parliamentary process to undermine our democracy.
As for how to deal with it, seeking leave to add it to the Statutes Amendment Bill is probably the way to go. Alternatively, threatening to veto every SAB provision unless the bullshit bills are withdrawn might help.
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Hard News: Cannabis reform is not a…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
So whether that makes it less a mission to Mars and more a hiding to nothing depends on the people making the decisions.
*Looks at headlines* ... Yeah, I wouldn't be too optimistic either. -
Polity: Hekia's waynebrave, in reply to Julienz,
much more option to mix and match
"More options", here as in healthcare and every other domain, just means more options for the already privileged, coming at the expense of an adequately funded national system. Bugger that.
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Hard News: Stop acting like the law is…, in reply to nzlemming,
Just another way of getting high?
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Polity: Hekia's waynebrave, in reply to Deborah,
it takes an enormous amount of work to prepare distance materials, far more so than preparing internal courses
Absolutely – for one thing, you have to parse everything in minute detail for possible miscommunication, as there’s no chance to clear up ambiguities or errors. One of the courses I’m currently teaching has both physical and online students. I try to cover all the material ‘live’ in class before sending it online, so that the online students can also get an account of the in-class discussion. But essentially it means doing everything twice over.
For students, well… it depends. It depends a lot on whether the student has people or forums available for interactive discussion. Homeschooling can work well for some students, but either the student has to be incredibly motivated to follow up ideas themselves, and/or the parents have to be well-educated and involved.
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* wreaks of > reeks of
(Language errors are kind of inevitable when writing on education :-/
Still not quite as embarrassing as Parata’s incompetence, though.) -
Hard News: Cannabis reform is not a…, in reply to william blake,
But it's his drug of choice, so of course that's different.
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Speaker: Confessions of an Uber Driver…, in reply to goforit,
But could any vehicle that doesn't at least allow a human driver pass a WOF?