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Hard News: Who'd have thought?, in reply to
How do you know a child is being ’educated’ if you don’t define what that education is and how that child is performing relative to that definition.
Because you trust the professionalism of their teachers. All my teacher friends are ADAMANT that they know exactly how their pupils are doing. By and large, teachers are overworked, underpaid, and passionate about ensuring every kid achieves their best.
And the content of what they learn, that’s laid out in the curriculum. That’s already standard.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to
Auckland Winter deluge.
Looks like your seagull was early. ;-)
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to
Seagull solar eclipse
That is an awesome shot. And this is clearly The Chosen One of the seagulls. ;-)
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to
Feats of clay
pottery in motion…
Hefty New Zealand Railways cups, manufactured by Crown Lynn Potteries, are now collectors’ items but were once tossed from the train windows. According to an old joke, only three things would survive a nuclear holocaust: ants, cockroaches and New Zealand Railways cups. And the first two would make it only if they were under the third.
(Te Ara)
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to
NZ Rail tea
In those wonderfully durable cups! :-)
My Mum claims that in the old days the standard line was,
“Do you take sugar?”, and if the answer was, “No”,
the response was, “Well don’t stir it, then.” -
Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to
Our very own Tom Jones
I watched Mars Attacks last night, and found it just as sublime as I remembered.
Tom Jones singing “It’s Not Unusual” to the assembled wildlife…how would you even think that would work?? And yet it’s a perfect moment.
Edit: sorry, um, /derail!
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Hard News: For want of some purpose, in reply to
Long live non-commercial broadcasting.
Amen! Also
the thinking grandmother’s crumpet
:-)
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to
you might not want to know what you expose doing that randomly around Auckland
crack out the infrared flash!!
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Thanks for the pictures, Jonathan, and everybody. After all the movies etc., it's good to see the real thing.
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Capture: Ice Rink Luck, in reply to
last winter there was a temporary one
There’s currently a temporary one in Palmy, but yeah, fairly expensive to use (prices and details).