Posts by giovanni tiso
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It depends where you live.
Yes, I should have clarified: we live in a working class area, and the majority of kids at our school are from immigrant families. I was comparing like with like in that regard. (Although I remain largely ignorant of the situation in the US).
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Or John Key's kids in State school?
Well, in NZ it's different: public schools kick some serious butt. It's not what I hear about the US of A.
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Obviously I want to do what's right for my kids. But if I and parents like me bail out of the public system, then we are leaving all those other kids behind, no?
Go Jolisa. And how cool would it be if the Obama girls were enrolled in a public school?
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Giovanni: I think it was Farrar originally writing in the NBR.
Can't read you on account of all the egg on my face.
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Okay, a D- for me for not figuring out it was in fact Farrar. Oh, the shame.
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Hood: A D+ for making me think that the insufferable Farrar had written something worth reading, when in fact it was somebody else entirely.
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Didn't Stephen Franks want to take his dog to the Registry Office?
Badoom-tish!
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She doesn't understand and genuinely hasn't thought about the needs of kids for whom conventional schooling simply doesn't work.
I think you might have leant a little too heavily on the valium, that's some massive benefit of the doubt you're giving an MP who has been the understudy for the position of minister of education for quite some time. If she actually ignores these issues, as opposed to simply playing on the public's limited knowledge of what truancy means, then arguably it's even worse. I'll take malice over terminal stupidity, in cases such as this one.
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Score me as another parent who condones their child's truancy. Fine me, jail me, call me names.
If you ever get any hassles, you'll let us know, won't you?
You'll be aware that IHC has lodged a human rights complaint against the ministry of education on this very basis. Details on the complaint, and on how to join/support, here.
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So when they say "irony", do you think of a clothes-presser or a blacksmith?
The former, but I think I owe that to I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.