Posts by Eddie Clark
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Come back when you've worked in Big Pharma, the man-hating Lesbian-Marxists and the Jooows...
I do kind of wonder how this thread turned into something about how the bad right wing people cause the flu. Or something. Rich - how limited is your sick leave that you can't actually take it when sick? And how crappy is your employer if you think it's great to skive off them? That's the sort of thing that actually causes sick leave entitlements to be reduced.
I mean, come on, the evil right wing business set does enough ACTUAL bad shit without making them responsible for flu pandemics as well.
Also, I worked on the pandemic strategy a few years back when it was being developed for bird flu. If anything, the legal powers available are overly draconian (fairly stringent detention powers for sick people). And we have heaps of tamiflu, which appears to work. And easily controllable entry to the country. So even if this gets really bad, which its not likely to do, we're in relatively good shape.
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Doesn't the "h" attach to the "w" in whanganui, rather than the "a"?
In which case he'd be Lawhs. Potentially pronounced "laffs". Which is a whole nother layer of amusing.
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He really cannot write, and he has the self-awareness of a concrete bollard.
That's a bit harsh on the Reserve Bank... their press releases aren't that bad.
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Peter - quite. Lolz @ myself.
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Thanks for that, Alan. As can be seen from my other posts in this thread, I agree with you.
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Alan - which ones? Genuinely curious.
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Private schools have a very strong social element, obviously aimed at entrenchement of class hegemony.
Damn, and here I forgot to be indoctrinated. Me with my ritzy teacher parents. <obscure anne rice reference>Clearly I interrogated my schooling from the wrong perspective </obscure anne rice reference>.
And Rich - one of the limitations of blog posts/msg boards etc is its hard to tell the difference between someone being tongue in cheek and someone being a dick. It appears I mistook "tongue in cheek" for "dick".
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Deepred:
I agree. The small class sizes were great for me, but from talking to my brother and friends at other schools, the quality of teaching or resourcing were not noticeably higher.
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Blah, I'll dive back in cos people are actually making sense (except Rich).
Tom, I can only speak from experience, and my experience is that my private schooling was not any 'better' than that my brother got at a public school. But my personality as a teenager was such (I've grown up somewhat since then) that I would have been eaten alive at the school my brother went to. The school I went to had small enough classes to protect me from that.
Although point 1 I will buy, if you'll also accept that it is morally wrong to have anything but absolutely standardised class sizes across the public school system.
I don't think your point 2 actually makes any sense. If I have kids, I have no bias towards sending them to a private school at all. My old school would have been (and was, for some of my schoolmates) terrible for people of some personality types. You're making assumptions about the motivations of people you don't know.
Point 3 - I'm still friends with 2 whole people I went to high school with, 10 years after the fact. My current group of friends is socially, ethnically, and economically diverse. I don't think that would be an uncommon finding among private school attendees.
Point 4 - The public sector organisations I work for would be surprised to hear that.
As for bussing - fair enough, and I take your point.
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Rich:
Reason 1: Ouch. Was that really called for? Do you deeply dislike me or find me horribly offensive?
I was going to respond substantively, but I don't really feel like being personally attacked all afternoon, so I'll leave this thread alone.