Moving schools - taking a child out of St James

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Postby a different guest » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:53 am

Uh oh - Chief Seattle again!


LOL FT - It's Groundhog Day! :)

I wonder if poor old Ted Perry ever gets any royalites?

The words Chief Seattle has become famous for were written by Ted Perry, the screenwriter for Home, a 1972 film about ecology....
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/seattle.htm

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Postby Goblinboy » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:56 am

Goblinboy wrote:Yes. Didn't want to respond, but better do it in case Anthony cops some unnecessary flack or a verbal avalanche from a source close to home.


Didn't mean you, ADG ;-)

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Postby a different guest » Mon Mar 13, 2006 5:59 am

Didn't mean you, ADG ;-)


Didn't think you did GB :)

and you're right, the words are good regardless of true source. Stirring speeches delivered by great leaders ARE written by 'speech writers' after all.

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Postby AntonR » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:19 am

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Postby a different guest » Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:25 am

No worries Anton - you didn't have the internet back then :)

and I did read of this gizmo you can get for turning old paper into compressed 'logs' for an open fire.

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Postby Free Thinker » Mon Mar 13, 2006 7:20 am

I didn't mean that as a scold, either. I just thought "oh no! He doesn't know!"

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Postby a different guest » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:46 am

he is a thorough gentleman and a true american.


Ahh, then from what I have read he must be a Texan. GWB aside, I have heard they are unfailingly polite and gentlemanly. :)

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back to the website - any thoughts on why pupil...

Postby Saint James » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:15 pm

is holding THE TIMES newspaper in his hands on the school site? What's their political orientation? SES connection?

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Postby Merry » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:31 pm

Erm.....St James, are you not getting a little carried away?

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Postby Free Thinker » Mon Mar 13, 2006 9:47 pm

I'm a little confused as well. Where's that head-scratching smilie?

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Postby Stanton » Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:05 pm

Where DID you get that pink pussy-cat, Merry?

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Postby Merry » Tue Mar 14, 2006 6:23 am

That's no ordinary pink pussy cat Stanton - it's Bagpuss, perhaps the greatest cat in history!

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Postby Stanton » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:37 am

He's certainly beautiful - where can I get one? Or something else? Ignorance speaking - would like an avatar (as Bagpuss is, I believe) but don't know where the store is?

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Postby stjparent » Tue Mar 14, 2006 8:33 pm

Coming back to the original topic ..

Following the Channel 4 item this evening, I wonder if many (or any) non-SES parents will be comfortable keeping their children at a school that has teachers in with an abusive history.

Whether or not the abuse was confined to the named teachers, the defiance of the school in saying that - even after the report and then Channel 4 bringing it to a wider audience's attention - they will not remove the teachers suggests that this is the tip of the iceberg.

If a teacher that abuses their power by such a wide margin cannot be disciplined (because they are SES), then it follows that any abuse of power is acceptable. All the apparently minor (recent) stories that I have heard of teachers overdisciplining the pupils fall into place. Quite aside from any potential cult issues about the SES, I personally feel extraordinarily angry (and hoodwinked) that an apparently caring school can have such a cancer at its heart.

I suspect that the trickle of non-SES parents pulling their children out, already becoming a steady stream, will now become a flood. Provided of course that people can find places for their children given the divergent curriculum.

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