Posts by Sacha
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Are you saying Mr McDonald lives an equine lifestyle? :)
Moir and fellow hackettes apparently believe there's this thing called 'the gay lifestyle' that involves scandalous swinging from chandeliers and fatal orgies. And any facts will be bent to fit that story.
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Excellent
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Actually to be fair the Herald on Sunday editorial - Let teachers teach, not count - is quite good.
It's worth remembering that only two years ago the Education Review Office found that primary schools used assessment information well in 80 per cent of cases for reading and writing and 75 per cent for maths. In short, there is no assessment crisis. What is more, the evidence is that a system incentivising assessment will improve scores, without necessarily improving achievement.
The unpalatable truth which does not fit with National's ideology is that there is an achievement crisis. And under-achievement is correlated with socio-economic status, which is reliably correlated with ethnicity. This approach is like fixing a leaking tap by putting a leaking bucket under it and measuring the amount of water that's being lost.
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princess leia slave costumes*
Now that's educational. I see how the excitement about green onion slave girls is unlikely to be about the onions.
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what is being said by parents in the school carpark.
"Does my bum look svelte in this?"
Yes, the Harold tells us the big concern is whether my outfit competes effectively with the other mummies dropping off young Jeremy and Jemima. That's the level of coverage we're talking about, though at least they had the decency to put it in their Lifestyle section rather than the Politics one.
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what is being said by parents in the school carpark.
"How about them strawberries, huh?"
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About that s92.. :)
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Ohh look! Sheep! Cows! Pretty pictures!
Yes, I'm sure the govt appreciated the trivialisation and denigratation of all beyond the 3Rs. You wonder if they still teach young journos or editors about "truth to power" as a function of their profession.
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How exactly is this unusual behaviour?
Ratio of cocktails to beer.
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Pretty good summary of military history.