Posts by Emma Hart
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Also, um, how did two schools end up being called “Unlimited” and “DiscoveryOne”. They sound like off-shoots of Scientology or something.
Heh, that'd be my kids, and Isabel's kids. They are "special character" schools, but basically the opposite of scientology. My son's philosophy class really struggled the last couple of years to get enough people to argue "pro-religion" for them. This gives some idea of the philosophy of the schools: student-led learning, 'discovery' learning (hence the name). The 'teachers' are called "learning advisors" and go by their first names. There's no uniform. It's wall to wall hippies, basically.
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
meaning much greater roll losses in those areas than in areas where parents are tied to their houses by a mortgage.
Woolston School and Phillipstown School. Note the roll changes: 230 to 241, and 146 to 155. Those schools are being merged, when both their rolls have increased.
Nor are these the most damaged schools: those are remaining open. They are Unlimited and DiscoveryOne (both decile 7) and Redcliffs (decile 10).
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Miche Campbell,
Damn, I wish I’d known you were that close.
Holy Smoke and The Twisted Hop: a walk down the road’s getting bloody tempting and expensive these days.
This last year, I’ve had a lot of conversations about Chch bars and restaurants. There’s this quite intense crowd-sourcing going on about what’s open, what’s good, what’s shifted and where it is. I think now we’re actually going out more than we used to, because you make the effort now. So yes, always open to invites.
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Up Front: Twenty-Two Two, Two, in reply to Peter Darlington,
So happy for C1 Espresso, so sad for Twisted Hop. Possibly my 2 favourite destinations in Christchurch.
The Hop is now out in Woolston, on Ferry Rd, two blocks from my house. The beer is still great, but unfortunately the atmosphere is completely different.
Like The Tannery, I am hoping that more rebuilding will make these spaces more pleasant to be in. Right now it feels like... people are making a real effort to patronise those businesses out of loyalty and determination, rather than because they really enjoy being there.
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Hard News: Media3: Bad News for the Force, in reply to Matthew Poole,
"I hope your mothers get this done to them."
Yes, it does.
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The social media wisdom, of course, is that organisations gain stature by leaving critical comments in place – and that deleting such comments invites an even bigger backlash. But should the police admins have deleted the more threatening comments, sooner? What was the benchmark for keeping the comments up? Was there even a strategy?
Deleting all critical comments is Bad. Never deleting any comments is Bad. Fortunately, those aren't the only options. You can't really make guidelines precise enough that your admins will always know what to do about every comment. But my gut on the ones you quoted is that the first three stay and the fourth one goes, because it advocates domestic violence. And fuck, not to put too fine a point on it, that shit.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
At that point it’s firmly in the realm of farce.
On a domestic flight, Jetstar(!) objected to my having a lighter in my handbag. So I took it out, in front of the screeners, and put it in the pocket of my jeans. And that was fine.
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Russell Brown,
And because NZ First voters traditionally have no clue who the hell they’re voting in when they vote for Winston.
I can't remember who gave me this insight in the first place: it might well have been someone here. NZFirst voters believe that the more they vote for Winston, the bigger he gets. They were quite surprised after the last election when that turned out to not just be 'eight seats for Winston'.
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My partner went in to work, so he can take a day off later in the month when we have a weekend off in Hanmer for my birthday. It'd be good, he thought: a nice quiet day in an empty office.
Except that everyone else came in to work as well.
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Up Front: In Committee, in reply to Alison Kagen,
This has reminded me of making submissions on the Homosexual Law Reform Bill
Hey, Alison. Kevin Hague mentioned he'd read through the submissions from Homosexual Law Reform, and it certainly brought home to him how much less vitriolic things are this time around. I find it "hilarious" the way people who were opposed to decriminalisation and opposed to civil unions are now in favour.
If anyone is interested, Margaret Mayman (@mmayman) is live-tweeting today's Wellington hearings.