Posts by Rich of Observationz
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and it's Whankernui, coz they elected one.
Also, I reckon Veitch's witterings amounted to a mea minima culpa.
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I remember when the 1980's home computer industry mined out the seams of teenagers. It took years, and new technology in the form of the PC and the 32-bit video game console to recover.
The console biz seems to have conquered that cycle, though?
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...and you Jafas want Holmes as your Lord High Mayor?
Still, I suppose it stops him becoming an airline pilot.
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Can NZ judges haul a defendant back for resentencing if they've been misled? I know English ones can.
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Lets not all forget how humiliating it will be for tony veitch, to serve the community; more than the average criminal?
Yeah, he'll probably have to go on Dancing with the Stars.
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I think my local education authority back in England did a sensible thing when they brought in non-selective education.
Up until the late 70's, there had been four or five secondary modern (11-16) schools and one selective grammar school. They could have turned these into 12-18 comprehensives (which would have kept the grammar as a de-facto "elite" school, rather than the local school for the town it was in).
Instead, they made all the secondary schools 12-16 comprehensives and the grammar school became a 6th form college for 16-19 year olds (Godalming College). That meant that the grammar schools "elite" facilities were available to anyone staying on after 16, while the comps had a level playing field.
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While you may have an insight to his real feelings on the subject, its a bit hard to say, legally, that someone who pleads guilty hasnt accepted his guilt, no?
I'd say Veitch's statement to the media could be summarised as "I'm sorry I got caught".
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Did that violent criminal scum Veitch go to Grammar?
Note: that isn't libellous, he has just been convicted of a violent criminal offence. Unfortunately not jailed (what happened to refusal to accept guilt being an aggravating factor?) but maybe he'll Archer himself at some stage.
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Also, apparently this letter appeared in the NZ Herald:
Sir,
I recently found out that my old school, Auckland Grammar, which my sons now attend, is only classed in decile 10. I regard it as wrong that an excellent school like this is kept down with lesser schools in the same decile, especially with the amount we pay for the required flat in the Grammar Zone.
Surely it should be given the additional recognition of becoming a decile 11 or 12 school. I find ranking it in this way as symptomatic of the dumbing down of the former Socialist government, which I hope our new ACT masters will be doing something to correct.
CB, Remuera
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even considered introducing a school uniform to meet parental expectations
If a school doesn't have a uniform and a group of parents want one, what's to stop them all settling on one for their kids. Something like this?
(Ok, I'm told that some schools have to have their kids wear uniform to stop them wearing gang colours. Worrying.)