(insert username here) is, has, thinks, etc, etc.....

[fisho mcspaz]

hehe it's all good, I've talked him into it! Woohoooooooooo go the EAGLES!

[Alaska]

will be moving out of home and getting a divorce if his Norwood barracking missus and her team get up today.

Oh dear tey were all over them!

[mighty_tiger_79]

dedja has become another statistic!!!!lol

[fisho mcspaz]

Fisho is taking baby Luke for his immunisations today, poor little man.

[Media Park]

Media Park has not had a smoke this morning, and is not taking them to work today... See if this can last...

[A Mum]

A Mum knows that the next few months are going to be busy, busy, busy !!

2 weeks time off on holidays
3 weeks after that - first grand child due
8 weeks after that - daughter's 18th party
1 week after that - Christmas

It's all going to be happening...lol

[Footy Chick]

FC thinks pidgeons are dumb.

[Dirko]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

[Footy Chick]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

[Psyber]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

Psyber thinks it is something to do with the modern development of many forms of Pidgin English, due to the failure of the education system..

[fisho mcspaz]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

Psyber thinks it is something to do with the modern development of many forms of Pidgin English, due to the failure of the education system..

My son doesn't get corrected when he makes spelling mistakes at school - so I end up taking his workbook and going through it mercilessly, saying 'You write it LIKE THIS' in a pompous authoritarian voice. (Poor Angus.) I suppose they don't start marking stuff properly until kids are a bit older? I learnt to read when I was two and I never made any spelling mistakes by the time I got to school (which was no joy - the teachers would always use me as an example and consequently I got bashed up a lot in my first couple of years at school), so I was never taught literacy and I have no idea how the schools approach it.

[fisho mcspaz]

Fisho is going to do ALL the housework so when Mr McSpaz comes home he can just relax, because he has been very awesome in looking after me when I had a crook neck.

[Media Park]

Aren't you a good girl Fisho...?

You want to clean my place next???

[Footy Chick]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

Psyber thinks it is something to do with the modern development of many forms of Pidgin English, due to the failure of the education system..

My son doesn't get corrected when he makes spelling mistakes at school - so I end up taking his workbook and going through it mercilessly, saying 'You write it LIKE THIS' in a pompous authoritarian voice. (Poor Angus.) I suppose they don't start marking stuff properly until kids are a bit older? I learnt to read when I was two and I never made any spelling mistakes by the time I got to school (which was no joy - the teachers would always use me as an example and consequently I got bashed up a lot in my first couple of years at school), so I was never taught literacy and I have no idea how the schools approach it.

Bloody do-gooders at work again, if you don't correct kids, how do they learn?

When I was in prep, we were learning how to write the letter "O" and if any 30-somethings can remember we used to have books which we traced the letters and learned but also had to write in excercise books as well. ANyhoo, I used to cross over my o's (ie; never the perfect circle )and my teacher wasn't happy with this, so she made me write o's until I didn't cross them over at the top anymore.
'
Until this day I still write perfect O's and I thank Mrs Whitehorn for that

Also one of the main reason I didn't finish my teaching degree, I'm too old school, I'd bring a cane to class and get the sack

[fisho mcspaz]

Aren't you a good girl Fisho...?

You want to clean my place next???

If it wasn't about 800km away I might! I cleaned a mate's place once from top to bottom - she had a bloke coming to stay with her and didn't want to make a bad impression. I don't mind cleaning other people's houses, I just really procrastinate about my OWN house. But today I am making progress!

[fisho mcspaz]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

Psyber thinks it is something to do with the modern development of many forms of Pidgin English, due to the failure of the education system..

My son doesn't get corrected when he makes spelling mistakes at school - so I end up taking his workbook and going through it mercilessly, saying 'You write it LIKE THIS' in a pompous authoritarian voice. (Poor Angus.) I suppose they don't start marking stuff properly until kids are a bit older? I learnt to read when I was two and I never made any spelling mistakes by the time I got to school (which was no joy - the teachers would always use me as an example and consequently I got bashed up a lot in my first couple of years at school), so I was never taught literacy and I have no idea how the schools approach it.

Bloody do-gooders at work again, if you don't correct kids, how do they learn?

When I was in prep, we were learning how to write the letter "O" and if any 30-somethings can remember we used to have books which we traced the letters and learned but also had to write in excercise books as well. ANyhoo, I used to cross over my o's (ie; never the perfect circle )and my teacher wasn't happy with this, so she made me write o's until I didn't cross them over at the top anymore.
'
Until this day I still write perfect O's and I thank Mrs Whitehorn for that

Also one of the main reason I didn't finish my teaching degree, I'm too old school, I'd bring a cane to class and get the sack :lol:

Same here! That'd learn the little s***s.

[Alaska]

SJABC can't work out why people put the d in pigeon......

Psyber thinks it is something to do with the modern development of many forms of Pidgin English, due to the failure of the education system..

My son doesn't get corrected when he makes spelling mistakes at school - so I end up taking his workbook and going through it mercilessly, saying 'You write it LIKE THIS' in a pompous authoritarian voice. (Poor Angus.) I suppose they don't start marking stuff properly until kids are a bit older? I learnt to read when I was two and I never made any spelling mistakes by the time I got to school (which was no joy - the teachers would always use me as an example and consequently I got bashed up a lot in my first couple of years at school), so I was never taught literacy and I have no idea how the schools approach it.

Bloody do-gooders at work again, if you don't correct kids, how do they learn?

When I was in prep, we were learning how to write the letter "O" and if any 30-somethings can remember we used to have books which we traced the letters and learned but also had to write in excercise books as well. ANyhoo, I used to cross over my o's (ie; never the perfect circle )and my teacher wasn't happy with this, so she made me write o's until I didn't cross them over at the top anymore.
'
Until this day I still write perfect O's and I thank Mrs Whitehorn for that

Also one of the main reason I didn't finish my teaching degree, I'm too old school, I brought a cane to class and got the sack :lol:

Ditto

[Thiele]

Thiele is thinking about pulling out of the City Bay 3km walk to support the babby bloods

[Media Park]

Media Park thinks JEEZ he must come off a bit weird to some people... I cannot believe what an apparent "friend" just called me.

[Psyber]

My son doesn't get corrected when he makes spelling mistakes at school - so I end up taking his workbook and going through it mercilessly, saying 'You write it LIKE THIS' in a pompous authoritarian voice. (Poor Angus.) I suppose they don't start marking stuff properly until kids are a bit older? I learnt to read when I was two and I never made any spelling mistakes by the time I got to school (which was no joy - the teachers would always use me as an example and consequently I got bashed up a lot in my first couple of years at school), so I was never taught literacy and I have no idea how the schools approach it.

And now University entrance standards look like being lowered to match the performance of students at secondary school level.
My impression talking to teachers is that the quality of secondary education has been replaced with the quantity of meaningless work to turn in, which is what makes Year 12 so hard.
[It also happens in some less technical University courses I am told.]

This will lower University standards too in the long run, and lower further the credibility of our Universities versus European ones.
I have an acquaintance doing a Masters degree in IT in Germany at present who says the standard is much higher there, and they don't let their overseas students cheat so long as they keep paying the fees.
[He was also a University tutor and exam supervisor here.]