The Anime Soc chat thread XX: The Fierce Flames of Abandonment

louise ranford wrote:

[q1]> Please can anyone help with web sites for school assemblies? I am[/q1]
[q1]> trying to find useful resources for a series of assemblies around the[/q1]
[q1]> theme of 'responsibility'. Age group is 11-18. I have already done[/q1]
[q1]> extensive searches on web but haven't come up with anything useful[/q1]
[q1]> yet.I have already visited school assembly ideas web site but it was a[/q1]
[q1]> little too young. The info is not for me but my poor exhausted teacher[/q1]
[q1]> husband [/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> thanks for any leads, Louise[/q1]

You could try the Staff Room Web Ring. Just list the sites and see who
has assemblies. Best wishes Roger )

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My school management have decided in their wisdom that the current year
11 should be entered for English GCSE in November's exams, under a
different exam board than we have previously used, to motivate them to
try harder in the June exams, which will be the same exam board they
have studied for all year.

As both exam boards require fairly different styles of coursework, we
doubt the success of this venture, but have been assured by management
that this is common practice elsewhere. Does anyone on this forum enter
year 11 for early examinations in a mainstream subject (ie not languages
spoken at home, etc?)? If you do, does it work out? What are your
opinions on it?

I'd be really grateful to hear about experience of early exam entry -
and no, I'm not just looking for negative anecdotes!

Thanks in advance!

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Vanessa

Liz: 'We need more intellectual discussion. Like about
Egyptian mummies."

yeah id like to know that too!

For an impact try this site:
http://www.hollywoodpolice.org/VIN_CAT/pic79_11.htm

"Susanne M." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
[q1]> Does anyone have some great teaching ideas or tools to fight this[/q1]
[q1]> battle that is invading our high schools. The students that I'm[/q1]
[q1]> interacting with believe the use of it is okay. The only problem is[/q1]
[q1]> it's against the law. Help![/q1]

Suggest they get in touch with The Cats Protection League Headquarters,
I think in Crawley, and then ask for the contact covering Surrey. There
is one as my mum and dad live in Cobham - just up the A3 from Guildford
- and they belong to the local group. This local group has a list of
such people. Try for them to get on that list. IF they get really stuck
in getting hold of anyone e-mail me [email protected]
and I'll ask mum and dad for local details. They will need references
and probably be prepared to do telephone interviews or travel for
interviews.

Kyrstie Burrows

Primary teacher, Wiltshire. Gavin Dormand <[email protected]> wrote in
message news:[email protected]...
[q1]> Hello, I'd be grateful for any comments people might have on this.[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> My parents are retired and in their late fifties and live in the North[/q1]
[q1]> East. My sister has two young girls and lives in Surrey, and over the[/q1]
[q1]> past few years my parents have spent a lot of time down south visiting[/q1]
[q1]> and helping to look after the girls. My sister's house isn't really[/q1]
[q1]> big enough to for my parents to stay there for weeks at a time, so a[/q1]
[q1]> couple of years ago they bought a big caravan on a very nice site near[/q1]
[q1]> Guildford.[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> Since my eldest niece started school, my parents have spent less time[/q1]
[q1]> in Surrey. They're now finding it harder to warrant the large[/q1]
[q1]> proportion of their savings that is tied up in this caravan which[/q1]
[q1]> although very nice and in perfect condition depreciates in value quite[/q1]
[q1]> worryingly from one year to the next.[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> The question I'd like to ask people on the newsgroup is how realistic[/q1]
[q1]> it would be for my parents to look into house/dog/catsitting for[/q1]
[q1]> teachers during school holidays (the time when they spend most time in[/q1]
[q1]> Surrey). They house- and cat-sat for a colleague of my sister's last[/q1]
[q1]> year for a couple of months while they were in Australia. I imagine[/q1]
[q1]> though that the biggest issue is with trusting strangers to live in[/q1]
[q1]> someone else's house.[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> It seems to work quite nicely in theory -- the house owner has their[/q1]
[q1]> house/cat/dog looked after for free while they're away and my parents[/q1]
[q1]> have the benefit of living in a house close to my sister's during the[/q1]
[q1]> school holidays.[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> Thanks for any comments you might have,[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> Gavin Dormand[/q1]

Greg Snedden wrote:
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> For an impact try this site:[/q1]
[q1]> http://www.hollywoodpolice.org/VIN_CAT/pic79_11.htm[/q1]

I had a look. Strikes me that would probably have the opposite effect to
your intent. Most students and young people in general will know that
marijuana just doesn't have that kind of effect. Perhaps teachers should
know that too? Otherwise their attempts to scare children off are likely
to be counterproductive.

Why shouldn't children smoke marijuana around school or on schooldays?
Because it will mess with their heads and make academic or intellectual
effort difficult if not impossible. Same with alcohol and certain other
substances likely to be abused. (Tobacco just kills its consumers more
or less slowly, so there's no need to worry about that, it seems.) What
about weekends, holidays? Well, marijuana is illegal in many countries,
though tolerated to a greater or lesser extent in others. Even when
tolerated, it's generally not allowable for young children to smoke it,
as is the case with drinking alcohol. Seems like it makes sense to
require some maturity in dealing with psychotropic drugs, like lots of
other things in life. Could we perhaps try to teach this sort of thing
to our students rather than trying to scare them off with risible and
nonsensical horror stories? (The website, I note, doesn't claim - as
Greg Sneddon seems to be suggesting - that marijuana has such awful
physical effects.)

Along the same lines, in a way: my own children are now studying in UK.
Like lots of children not brought up in UK, they find the (British?
English?) youth alcohol culture kinda horrifying. Me too, often, when I
visit. I tend to be more worried about alcohol abuse amongst the young
(in UK) than about the spread of cannabis use. The effects of alcohol
seem more deleterious both societally and individually than do the
effects of cannabis, particularly on the young. That's not to say I
think young people shouldn't be discouraged from smoking marijuana.
Perhaps a more rational and prioritised approach to substance abuse
amongst young people would help them more, though, rather than foolish
attempts to demonise particular substances in such a way as to flaunt
the ignorance of the demonisers and so destroy any authority they may
have claimed about the subject in the eyes of their charges.

In short, I suppose (the beginnings of) an answer to the OP: *education,
education ... *, first of those in charge of young people.

[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> "Susanne M." <[email protected]> wrote in message[/q1]
[q1]> news:[email protected]...[/q1]
[q2]> > Does anyone have some great teaching ideas or tools to fight this[/q2]
[q2]> > battle that is invading our high schools. The students that I'm[/q2]
[q2]> > interacting with believe the use of it is okay. The only problem is[/q2]
[q2]> > it's against the law. Help![/q2]

If the *only* problem were that it's against the law, the best thing to
do would be to teach how to evade law-inforcement agencies, no? That
can't be right, can it? Perhaps we should first decide what *real*
problems there are about smoking m-j ... and then explain them to young
people in our care.

Bob

Kevin Wyatt wrote:

[q1]>GUESS WHAT?!!! apparently some guy/girl/transvestite/whatever in sth[/q1]
[q1]>america APPARENTLY as the STORY goes...(official IBO informant says...)[/q1]
[q1]>the chem sl paper was STOLEN!! ie SECURITY BREACH !!!!!!!!!!!!![/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]>sTOLEN!!! so we get a new paper and its next week!![/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
hot damn, pity I do HL, funny thing is after a while on the internet,
you start to be a tad suspicious of people who WRITE in ALTERNATE caps
with EXCLAMATIN marks EVERYWHERE!!!!!

oh well, only time will tell, any chance of a pdf of the file or
anything?

ooh lets play a game, guess who we're really quoting


yeah right as if you needed an excuse to use your pony forum more

louise ranford wrote:

[q1]> Please can anyone help with web sites for school assemblies? I am[/q1]
[q1]> trying to find useful resources for a series of assemblies around the[/q1]
[q1]> theme of 'responsibility'. Age group is 11-18. I have already done[/q1]
[q1]> extensive searches on web but haven't come up with anything useful[/q1]
[q1]> yet.I have already visited school assembly ideas web site but it was a[/q1]
[q1]> little too young. The info is not for me but my poor exhausted teacher[/q1]
[q1]> husband [/q1]
[q1]>[/q1]
[q1]> thanks for any leads, Louise[/q1]

You could try the Staff Room Web Ring. Just list the sites and see who
has assemblies. Best wishes Roger )

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