..... and
Need to make room for those charter schools.
Easily wound up!!
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Need to make room for those charter schools.
"There must be a one-to-one correspondence between left and right parentheses, with each left parenthesis to the left of its corresponding right parenthesis."
Aio ki te Aorangi
Which is?...Originally Posted by Gremlin
I didn't think!!! I experimented!!!
Just faidin away!
I forgot to mention that when the dust settled after our local schools were re-organised, it is with the greatest of fondness for the re-organised school that our local children, (having now passed on to secondary schools and out to work) express their memories!
By far the majority of the children have claimed the new school as being superior in every way, despite the extra travel (27km each way) etc.
I suspect the same will apply to Christchurch once the political antagonists and job protectionists have been put to bed.
Psyclepath
I'm sure that the last time this issue was in the news, there was some anti-change type wailing "It's not fair! We're in the Red zone and the school is the only thing we have left!"
1 + 1 =....?
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
No8 Wire Extraordinaire
The bit I'm struggling with is ":Classic Hits Radio?"
All the songs that were thrashed to death when they came out & since then, all brought out & thrashed some more.
C'mon!
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
The instructions are simple...
It's just like the schools-thing. People like best what they know. Generally. New things can make people nervous, anxious or pining for the familiar.
Do you realise how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
Forum whore
And while HP is made into a pariah, and the necessary school closures in Chch are undertaken, DoC has been gutted of management staff so what was previously conservation land can be strip mined and the natural resources exported and money earned from their sale shipped overseas. The only benefit to the NZ economy from this move will be for a couple of hundred miners and their families. Important for them. A drop in the bucket in the broader sense.
I have to admit to having little sympathy for the teachers involved, particularly in light of their entirely typically childish reaction, generally speaking, to necessary fundamental changes to the Christchurch educational arena.
You have to give kudos to National's leadership for never forgetting their core ideology of preventing their taxpayers from ever benefiting from improvements to NZ's economic status, and never shirking from passing the cost of any mistakes they make onto their voters. After all, it's our fault the economy's rooted. Well played, National Caucus, well played indeed.
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Psyclepath
Where manuka and rata struggle to grow beyong "stunted", the only animal that can scrape an existence is a snail and the most interesting thing for a tourist to go and see is the "incline" which carried coal down off the plateau from 1870-something until the 1960's.
Only a homo puts an engine back together WITHOUT making it go faster.
Anarchic Wild Child
Naaa .. see .. the Government wants Charter Schools for the kids who are failing in the normal schools ...
So these Charter ASchools will not be available to the sons and daughters of parents who want to opt out of the state schools but can't afford private schools .. unless their kids are in the "at risk" category ... they wil be for "problem children" only ..
Then god help the Charter schools - they will be expected to have a very high sucess rate .. with kids who a failing at school !!!
Just a perfect combination isn't it .. we wil put untrained teachers into schools with problem kids and expect high standards !!!
Doh !!! Would you take your car to an untrained mechanic and expect high quality repair work?? Why would you trust your kids to untrained teachers ???
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Anarchic Wild Child
Bwhahaha .. I agree .. and if they went to school in the 1960s/70s then a 21st century school is not what they know .. and they want their kids to have the eduction they had .. in 1960s/70s schools .. Well, sorry .. schools have moved on since then ..
(I know .. I know ... someone's going to say: "It never did me any harm - and look where I am today " Well sorry - it certainly did me harm ... I hated school and dropped out to ride big motorcycles with the bad boys and use lots of wonderful drugs ... and fuck ... look where I am today !!!)
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Anarchic Wild Child
And where the coal is on fire ..don't have to wait for another Pike River-type explosion .. it's already burning
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"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
Forum whore
And that it is a small percentage of the land. 100 Hectares of tens of thousands. Then ignoring that the mining company is obliged to restore the land afterwards.
To hear the Greenies, you would think it is the end of civilisation as we know it.
You don't get to be an old dog without learning a few tricks.
Shorai Powersports batteries are very trick!
Anarchic Wild Child
Why the fuck do we want to mine more coal ???
First off all, the price has fallen out of the market - That's what fucked Solid Energy .. why the hell is a new company starting up ?? Seems very stupid to me ... gathering a resource that is falling in value ... a 40% drop in value ??? And we are opening new mines? Don't buy shares in that company ...
Second, why the hell are we mining and burning more coal and adding to the CO2 emmissions ???
All round - a dumb idea ..
"So if you meet me, have some sympathy, have some courtesy, have some taste ..."
"channellling the Pleideans"
I had very bad experiences at school, and shitty teachers. (rural NZ in the 1970's) so I am all for saying "screw you" to teachers. But the children do not deserve to be pawns in a political game.
Thats one view. the other is the very real demographic changes that have taken place in the town, which simply cannot be ignored. Whole suburbs are gone, or will be by the end of the year: some will not be rebuilt on. There is also a huge exodus of people from the town or from east to west or south in the town. and the forward planning has to take account of that. Plus the munstryuveddumacate has had a lot of severely damaged buildings to contend with.
Long story short, Trish Parata can go fuck herself, but some really hard decisions had to be made: Its the Patton thing (the General, not Mike Patton the musician) you have to make a decision. It might not be the right one, but you have to make A decision. then keep rolling.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
"channellling the Pleideans"
Here's a thing. There are different types of coal. What new zealand has in relative abundance and easy to extract is high grade coking coal. Why is that important? That is the coal you need if you want to make high grade steel. One tonne of that stuff vs three to five tonnes of lesser quality coal in your steel mill. So there is a case that says "We should continue mining that coal in NZ because COMPARED TO THE ALTERNATIVE there is a nett benefit, to CO2 emissions, to NZ's bottom line, and even to the poor bastards whose job it is to dig it out of the ground.
Thats what Pike River were after but they had other problems.
and it will be burnt in India and China, not here: though I acknowledge that CO2 emissions are a global problem.
I thought elections were decided by angry posts on social media. - F5 Dave
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