Posts by Hilary Stace
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Damian Christie,
Thanks Damian. Just reading that list confirms that the ministers then and now have much in common.
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Re your comment on cuts and tightened criteria for legal aid. Yet another person with Aspergers unjustly charged and imprisoned. Fortunately, his mother kept fighting. With less access to legal aid and less ability to choose lawyers who know about such conditions, more such injustices are inevitable.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Giovanni, nice to see you back in your regular place on the internet.
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Great Hindsight tonight, Damian, and good to see some of those educationalists again (although not Anne Tolley's predecessor Merv Wellington). But if you can, please can you put some screen labels on your commentators each time they appear. I recognised some, but not all of them.
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Three points:
Adults just have to keep modelling the behaviour they want children and other impressionable people to copy. Starting with the PM and government (and I don't see much role modelling in inclusion and social justice from them). In my many years on school boards I saw a lot of bullying. From ministers/ministry to boards, between board members, from board to principal and staff, between staff and parents (parents are some of the worst bullies), and of course between kids. Most kids actually understood what is going on and model much better behaviour when given the chance, such as in setting up school restorative justice processes,peer support etc.
I know a young person with skills and experience to work with some of angriest young people, but she can't get a job in NZ. No one has the money to employ her.
As I mentioned on another thread, this is an area where the new LP president, Moira Coatsworth, has a lot of expertise with her background in educational pyschology and working with kids and schools, and I would expect to see some good policies coming through.
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Deep Red, you should check out what Councillor Cathy Casey is doing. She's going around locating all the public art, sculptures and statues around Auckland and rehabilitating them. There seems to be quite a lot of good stuff.
But Wellington's are wonderful, and I'm particularly fond of the wind sculptures on Cobham Drive.
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Don't suppose you dropped in to see the dugongs in the Sydney aquarium?
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I am pleased to see Moira Coatsworth as the new party president. I had a little to do with her a few years ago through her work with special education (I think she's an ed psych). Anyhow very impressive, sensible and innovative in that field. This might even be the time for disability activists to join the LP.
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Jacqui, I meant a young successor from the new writers.
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Does Janet Frame's posthumous novel Towards another summer (2007, although written in 1963) count as recent NZ fiction? It has a theme relevant to the other PA thread of exile and where is home? As usual she draws the reader in to her fascinating, neurodiverse world, and it's one of those books you have to read twice to catch some of what you missed first time. I don't see any successors to Janet Frame coming along.