Posts by Cecelia
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Poignant, Jeremy.
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I've just read the report.
I wanna be a "learning broker mentor!"
The report reads to me like the research project completed by a Year 13 student. (No offence to students.) It's pie in the sky stuff.
How does the suggested "personalised learning path" fit with the new national standards?
(I like the idea of a" personalised learning path" to an extent but you would need to give teachers a lot more time or hire a lot of LBMs)
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So this kite-flying nonsense coming out of right field - it's gonna crash pretty soon I reckon.
I hope so. Meanwhile I'm getting very scared about what I heard Jonathan Coleman say about RNZ.
Mining in our conservation estate and, now, tinkering with the public broadcasting function of RNZ ...(One News) Oh dear.
And now for some hyperbole but ...
As Malcolm said in Macbeth:
I think our country sinks beneath the yoke;
It weeps, it bleeds; and each new day a gash
Is added to her wounds: -
a step-change
Into something rich and strange.Well, it's strange and for the rich, so...
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What is a step-change when it's at home?
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Even Anne Tolley wouldn't countenance this!? (And that nice John Key would see that people were upset and he wouldn't let her anyway.)
Apart from the overall weirdness of it all, what about the cost of transport: to the environment and for the parents?
Doesn't Auckland get clogged up enough during term time anyway?
Better to enable kids' local schools to provide what local kids need and bring teachers and specialists to the schools to help individuals than move the kids around in fairly large numbers.
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Isn't homework set to appease the parents rather than to help kids learn?
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I have just caught up with the DHC column. Outrageous and ironic. I always saw her as coldly flippant and Russell as warmly reasonable.
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Mr Key declined to comment directly on the Herald reader survey on the basis that it was "not scientific".
Labour leader Phil Goff also questioned whether the survey reflected wider opinion.
I thought John Key's response to the Herald Readers' Survey on the GST increase was halfway decent. After all, it was in his favour - or is her still sitting on the fence?
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Deborah, I can well feel your frustration. What is going through my mind is that you would be quite a formidable parent for the teachers to face up to because like so many of the people here you are so damn brainy.
Have you tried Speld and a child psychologist? Perhaps because I was a teacher myself (secondary) I never expected schools to deal with my less conforming son and sought outside help. Sounds awful but it's how I felt. Just as now on my same old same old cancer "journey" I never expect one doctor or the medical establishment to know all the answers.