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Thread ID: 130100 2013-03-26 08:28:00 Charter schools - why is National obsessed with them? decibel (11645) PC World Chat
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1334197 2013-03-27 07:30:00 Is she not just a embarrassment to National & those National MP's who are competent & are now trying to fix up the messes?

you mean there are some? I haven't seen any
gary67 (56)
1334198 2013-03-27 18:58:00 you mean there are some? I haven't seen any

You never will Gary. Your eyes/brain just does not allow that :)
CliveM (6007)
1334199 2013-03-27 19:31:00 Probably because they want to have schools which can cater to some children that will never be academic and need more trade type schooling.

And also probably because they want to try to get away from the having to deal with the Labour backed teachers unions.

But I really don't think they are obsessed with them.

Isn't it more an Act initiative ?
Digby (677)
1334200 2013-03-28 07:00:00 You never will Gary. Your eyes/brain just does not allow that :)

I resent that, its more like I'm not blinded by National Bling and can see through them and their idiots
gary67 (56)
1334201 2013-03-28 07:59:00 I think this lady has been given a very difficult portfolio and she has done a good as job as anyone could.
Most teachers are so left wing they could be classified as commies and difficult people to work with. Charted schools may or may not work out but NZ has done some innovative things in the past world leaders in fact.
Women the vote
No fault ACC
Allowed alcohol stills
Legalized prostitution
Holocaust denial not a criminal offence
Modifying vehicles and certifying no biggie
No farm subsidies

Got it wrong on some stuff
prefect (6291)
1334202 2013-03-28 17:31:00 "Yet one of the most significant things Sahlberg said passed practically unnoticed. "Oh," he mentioned at one point, "and there are no private schools in Finland."

www.theatlantic.com

This is an old article but our politicians just don't seem to learn (or don't want to learn) from overseas experience.

And yet ACC was implemented here when it was thrown out in Germany (?) because it didn't work.
johcar (6283)
1334203 2013-03-28 20:35:00 I think this lady has been given a very difficult portfolio and she has done a good as job as anyone could.
Most teachers are so left wing they could be classified as commies and difficult people to work with. Charted schools may or may not work out but NZ has done some innovative things in the past world leaders in fact.


Holocaust denial not a criminal offence

National
Got it wrong on some big stuff

It's Ok Prefect the men or women in white coats can help with disillusion
gary67 (56)
1334204 2013-03-28 22:03:00 Yes I note that ACC is so well admired through out the world that the number of countries that copied it can be counted on none of my fingers. Digby (677)
1334205 2013-03-28 22:12:00 Yes I note that ACC is so well admired through out the world that the number of countries that copied it can be counted on none of my fingers.

I think the concept was good but what has happened is filthy scum serial bad backs have ripped off the system. People on long term ACC should be watched by private detectives to see they dont build retaining walls and go mountain biking etc when the ****s supposedly too hurt to return to work.
I think the wage and costs you could pay a detective who could look at the activities of about 50 or so people who could selected by profiling bad backs and would have a massive return on investment. These people caught would lose their ACC for life and be jailed and still pay ACC levies for no return on their release from jail
I think Digby just gotta go after the serial bad backs to make the sysem work. Plus define accident and get rid of people claiming illness and numbnutz things like pregnancy as an accident.
prefect (6291)
1334206 2013-03-28 22:16:00 It's Ok Prefect the men or women in white coats can help with disillusion
In this NZ forum its polite to use the words fixed or similar if you repost some ones thread with alterations. Your attention in this area would be appreciated.
prefect (6291)
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