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Seen Any?
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Check Out This Comm
advice_rehash I've organised an affiliation with this new comm, which is to talk about bad letters to advice columns. I thought that we had something in common! :) -
Two for Tuesday
Wow, there is an increase in twitch lately in our local paper ( Read more... ) -
No God, no atheists
"Might I remind [Name] et al that if God did not exist, neither would any atheists."
I really want to send in a response to that, not that it'll do any good.
Fergie for G-G
"Sarah Ferguson for Governor-General"
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Maths
ABOUT 250,000 kids turn 12 each year. Offer them $100 if they know their multiplication tables perfectly in February, another $60 for a repeat in June, another $40 in November. Success rate: 90 per cent (est) Cost: $45 million. One big problem solved.
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ARGH. Yeah, because times tables is the only thing kids need to know!
Claire Smith (Letters, May ( Read more... ) -
NAPLAN Tests
Focus on individual
EDUCATION Minister Julia Gillard's working party of ''educational experts'' to examine possible improvements to the My School website (''Union ban lifted on school tests'', The Age, 7/5) is a waste of time and money, for the solution is simple. While the My School website is a good idea in principle it unfairly ( Read more... ) -
Birds
Bird-brained idea
RELEASING captive-bred threatened regent honeyeaters into Chiltern-Mount Pilot National Park is a wonderful project. Birds Australia, Taronga Zoo, the Department of Sustainability and Environment and La Trobe University should be congratulated (The Age, 11/5).
I hope they have informed Peter Garrett of ( Read more... ) -
Causing Mental Illness
Difficult questions
DID we cause our son's schizophrenia? After reading Denise Ryan's article (''When abuse derails learning'', Education, 10/5), I wondered how many other parents were asking themselves the same question.
Our son has severe long-standing schizophrenia. His sister, a year younger, is a fine, well-adjusted ( Read more... ) -
Sorry
Sorry this comm hasn't been very active!
If you've seen any great twitchy eye letters to the editor, I'd love to see them. I've not really seen any here for a while but I'll look harder.
Perhaps we should include twitchy eye comments on online newspaper articles. :p -
Offending me ought to be a crime!
I found this little gem while surfing the 'nets. In some circles, the definition of "free speech" is evidently "limiting freedom of expression that bothers me and makin' sure them filthy fags and trannies stay in the closet".( Have a transcription... )
