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How do you define it, and how would you teach it? This sounds like another pop at the teaching profession really.
Alt, why did you choose your particular user name? Mine came from yahoo years ago, when I was trying to wind someone up.
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Can of lager.
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Alt: from a Herman Melville short story. It fitted well with my personality
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One of the problems (as I see it from a non parent point of view) is that competition between pupils is seen as bad as under achievers in one area will feel sad and disheartened, however the art of this is to find an area they will excel in, then the ability to overcome your weak areas and see the positives is slowly there.
Alt chose name over 15 yrs ago when I first got online it was the name of my childhood dog. (not the 29 bit that was just the one available when I first got it)
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Resilience and strength and how to try hard and work hard and not succumb to bloo bloos should be taught at home and in school, I reckon. 2 different areas of life innit.
Alt: old in joke with a friend. We've both used it -and rebeccaslicker - for years
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Alt: Something something Andy Kershaw something WOMAD Dylan prick.
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Which the government seems to try to ban at every opportunity.
Alt: Sitting there, thinking 'Why am I reading this crap?'...Well, it beats work.
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Too many parents would rather argue the toss with teachers cos they're convinced that little Jimmy/Jocinta can do no wrong, when in fact they're a little shit.
Kids do well at school if their parents spend time with them. When the parents can't be added, the kids suffer. None of this has anything to do with poverty either, middle class parents/kids are some of the worst.
alt: cos I live in a little village, but wasn't born here like most of the natives, so am not "local". Bit League of Gentlemen" at times.
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If I'd gone home and said I'd got into strife, it sure as hell wouldn't be the teacher getting a bollocking..
I blamez the pairents, innit.
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get higher grades than comp schools and therefore are able to be in jobs where they are afforded greater freedom.
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I don't know if its still true,
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right about the time the house captain has you and your fellow first years drop your pants and bend over, so he can use you as a toast rack.
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And that children learn from other children, not authority figures.
My name comes from my being a fan of rock band New Model Army, who have a song called Vagabonds.
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I saw them in November - they're being celebrated for a late-career return to form.
I've rarely seen them anything but excellent - tight, controlled and powerful. They're a very good band.
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I like the people who decry televisions as surrogate nannies, and then stick 2yo Jocasta on the iPad the moment the alarm goes off in the morning.
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It didn't work but I kept it going on here
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Username is a nickname I was given by some guys I used to train with.
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No-one can "teach" it
Alt:
A drunken conversation about sports cars and me liking cows ended up with sportscow
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Next thread it is..
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