Posts by Lucy Stewart
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Threadjack: I hope you are all off the coast and listening to National Radio right the fuck now.
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But declaring "hacking" to have taken place when there is no barrier to entry at all defies reason.
I suppose you could call it cyberspace tresspassing. But it's more the internet equivalent of the SIS briefcase incident; sure, it's not technically yours to look at, but if it's just left there, well...
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As has been pointed out, you can buy it if it's that important. If you don't have the cash you can listen to it for free on the internet. If you don't have the internet you can borrow it from the library.
These things do not equate to a radio station. They just *don't*. For starters, half the interest in Concert FM is the little pre-piece spiel about who wrote it and when and why; you don't get that on a CD. If those things were replacements for radio, radio would have died with the Walkman. But they're not.
If Concert isn't (good) enough, then why aren't we asking for more, instead of defending or dismantling the apparently insufficient?
Because that would be, what's the word...constructive?
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How does that work? Will they be putting on a mini van to transport the kids to the other school? Or will the kids have to coordinate public transport (if, indeed, their school is serviced by public transport).
What a hassle.
My high school was not huge but was on a steep hill, and we ended up wasting significant portions of class time just getting between classes, if they were far enough apart. You'd have to reduce the number of periods per day by one or two if kids were bussing between schools - and how does that help?
(That said, there's an argument for moving some kids to reasonably nearby schools for, e.g., classes they can't take at their school, or to get enough kids together for a seventh-form Scholarship class. But it'd have to be very close schools. Or, hell, teleconference.)
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One man one vote, in this case Mr Hide is the one man.
I was wondering how long it would take someone to get to that one.
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What - a kick-around at Christmas, that sort of thing?
Historical precedent tells us it will end in tears when Graham Henry threatens to have the participants shot. Especially the ones with the soccer ball.
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I can understand being upset about this. But how is this different to anything under the last Labour/Alliance/NZFirst/United-Future Government?
Craig's not gonna be happy you're stealing his lines.
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Very funny not, Gordon- 2000 words gives you the most basic communication, and pretty well every ANZer will use considerably more in almost any(let alone lengthy) conversation.
I always find attempts to define English as a set of most useful words silly, because they end up making the whole language sound too terrifyingly big to learn; but aiming for the smallest possible vocabulary size in teaching is such a poor goal. Not knowing words isn't the problem for kids who struggle with English, by and large. It's not knowing how to use them.
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The fact that one or two of a group seem to not contribute "equally" does not mean they have not contributed value.
I'm thinking it's been a long time since you did group assessment in a scholastic environment.
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Short answer: it works really well for some children, not so well for others.
And it's expensive. I was fortunate enough to be sent to a Montessori kindy, and it worked extremely well for me. It had no discernible effect on my brother.