Saturday 13 November 2010
- on 3,200 teachers face incompetence probe 32 minutes agoOh you just don't realise that teaching is an unusual profession where there ARE no incompetents. Every one of the 400,000+ teachers are good, kind, competent mentors who help kids progress both intellectually and socially. Unlike a business, where the bad performers need to be winkled out and fired regularly, teaching is a profession where we should keep all employees until they choose to retire.
- on US proposes new, graphic warning labels on cigarettes 38 minutes agoBut will keep the tobacco-grower subsidies
- "I wonder what would happen if the whole country didnt vote decided not to pay council tax"
Well, for a start, no rubbish collection, no recycling, no street cleaning, no roads repaired, no parks maintained, no public sports & leisure facilities, no public housing maintained, fewer health and protection services for children, the sick and the elderly, more homeless on your streets, fewer, poorer schools and no planning.
Other than that, things would be pretty much as usual
- Gosh, they ARE smarter than we thought! Whodda thunk cats would sit down and figure out the math and physics behind this drinking method before they did it? It's just that they so rarely publish their results.
- "They are not being held at gunpoint as some people are reporting, but there are guns on board and we are extremely concerned."
Well, not actually being treated like terror suspects, but the Captain said the word "terror" once, so we are extremely concerned.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 06:13
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