Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I notice your winky face, but hasn't the point been made on the other thread...
This is a "I know you weren't being serious, but I want to debate the point anyway" comment?
I've never been a tech writer, but I have done some in the past. Hopefully that's not a breach of union demarcation rules.
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The timing of getting the world cup that everyone will have to travel a million miles to get to, just a few years after the world economy goes to the shitter, is mildly annoying.
It's looking increasingly likely that the new Otago Stadium won't get the private financing required in time. In which case either it gets dropped, and a whole bunch of money has been spent for SFA, or the local bodies will be persuaded to cough up more. Neither of which is good.
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They both sound like the kind of idiots who pretty much put me off politics as anything other than a spectator sport.
I know nothing about her at all.
Him? Either pretending to be, or actually being, someone's partner for the purposes of passing information about what groups they're involved with are doing to the police for money. That's pretty scumbag.
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Standardised testing for every kiwi schoolchild, oddly enough..
Someone needs to cross-reference all the people who have claimed loved for their PATs, with those people bitching about standardised testing on the 'Soundbite to Policy' thread, and send them a 'please explain' ;)
I have no memories of these tests, though I presume we did them in the late 80s. Danielle?
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I was wondering more why one of his goons didn't leap over to take the second shoe for him - in the line of duty of course.
Yeah, it wasn't exactly "In the Line of Fire" was it? Maybe they've got low motivation levels after 8 years, with only 35 days until they get the new guy.
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But before I go, I'd like to at least acknowledge this guy, because he is awesome. Shame about his intended victim's cocaine-quick reactions.
Makes me wish the journalist was a quadraped. Or maybe a centipede.
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Which is not a reason to hold a kid back but is a very good illustration of why you should teach kids as individuals and not expect 30 little people to all be working at the same level all the time.
I'm sure a lot of teachers would be delighted to do that if they had 12 rather than 30 to deal with.
And, I'm in favour of that idea to some extent. But I think that there are reasons why we have a curriculum and teaching set things at set ages. Yes it's not perfect, but it means that we can set basic expectations for what our kids learn in school and know that if those basic standards aren't met, there's can be a system for dealing with both the kid, and the teacher. There are economies of scale, which means we don't have to employ a whole heap more teachers to teach the same number of kids. It's a blunt instrument, but at least it is an instrument in the education system and I suspect that some of the reasons for having it still hold.
And not every parent can be, or wants to be, that actively engaged with their teacher and their child's education. Some parents would just like schools to do a decent job at educating their kids without having to devote vast amounts of time to it.
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Tosh.
What will happen, is that people will spell their own names in polystyrene, take photos of it, post it on livejournal, and call it a poly-name-meme.
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I'm trying to figure out how one would stop a kid who was ready to learn to read from doing it themselves.
I found school tremendously boring for the first few years. It led to behavioural problems, not paying attention, hanging out with the 'wrong sort' etc.
Which you can trace to already knowing most things that they were teaching well before they started to teach it to the class.
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__Discuss in 500 words or less the poster's rationale for putting forward this question without mentioning his own pro-Labour bias. You have 30 minutes starting now. Eyes down please.__
Huh?
It's this new rule that was passed in urgency at 11.58 last night. Whenever you post on a political topic in the world these days, you have to finish your post by putting who you last voted for in brackets.
Kyle [Green]