Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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Hang about - if they are going to treat anything that looks like it's under eighteen as if it really is underage then shouldn't they treat anything that looks like female ejaculation as if it really is?*
*My understanding is that if something were provably squirting and not peeing it would be let through - please gently correct me if I'm wrong.
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Jolisa - your Mr8 sounds a lot like my Mr8 - he reads Coraline in one sitting and plasters the house with little signs about the playdough sweet-shop he and Mr4 are running but tell him he neds to write because it's writing time and he just freezes.
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My son, last year, had a teacher who couldn't quite seem to see that a kid could be way ahead in reading and grasp most concepts really easily and yet find writing very challenging without there being a learning disorder going on. The result was that he landed up having a whole year in which everything was focused on his area of challenge and his strengths were largely forgotten. Even though he made quite a bit of progress with writing his image of himself as a learner was damaged quite severely. The goal for this year is to rebuild as much of that confidence as possible.
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I'd imagine that, for any school doing things in a non-mainstream way, the worry is that their students may have a non-mainstream trajectory through their learning (eg may start a skill later but learn is quicker) which doesn't plot neatly onto the graph so there may be pressure to do teach the same way as everyone else so as to get the same results as everyone else..
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I'd want to know how much context matters - will an image used to illustrate a serious article on child-porn be treated differently from a similar image on a website 'promoting' sex with minors?
Every day we see images of illegal acts (often real rather than recreated) so while (fake) erotic images of children might feel different I find it hard to logically justify treating them differently from, for example, a murder in a TV drama.
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Our solution was the same as yours: rather than constantly be called a bad parent because my perfectly healthy child's lines weren't where they should be, we stopped going to Plunket. He still looks like he's just popped out of a concentration camp for the weekend, and he's still fine
This mirrors my experience with those bloody graphs very closely. I was told to deny my 9 month old the breast in order to make him eat the purees he was refusing. the only discernable effect of this tactic was to make mother and baby cry and then resolve never to go back.
My kid's school appears to be taking the approach that if parents want to know where their kids sit on the graph they can ask the teacher but they won't send the info out unsolicited because they don't see any value in it.
(edited because I did the formatting the way I would for a different site)
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Oh that just breaks my heart.
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As a parent (though obviously not one of the ones Ms Tolley talks to) the information I want about my kid is not the sort of stuff that you can get from standardised testing. I want to know if he is confident in his view of himself as a learner, I want to know if he is working to his potential, I want to know if his errors are from not understanding the work or from being careless or disengaged. Above all I want information from someone who sees the whole child and not just a score on a sheet of paper.
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Someone once described AC/DC's sound to me as "five men belching in unison" and I've never seen cause to disagree.
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No. The question is "is it reasonably possible that she provided consent for this sexual encounter?" It is a decidedly different question.
That would be the question for deciding whether to find the defendant guilty, no? Surely "it is likely she didn't consent" would be more than enough to send a case to trial?