In These Times

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• • 11 Jan 06
  • 12:49 pm

  I think what this article lacks is a clear statement from CTI as to what it considers "character". What freaked me out most was the presumption of "four areas of God-ordained jurisdiction: parents, government, church leaders, and employers" - eek! "Honour thy Father and Mother" I'm familiar with, but I'm pretty certain that the bible doesn't command me to honour any of the rest of those folk, other than in its ongoing message that I should love my neighbour as myself and do unto others as I would have them do unto me, which in itself suggests I respect and care …

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• • 04 Oct 05
  • 8:52 am

  When the eldest in our family was about to enter second level (high school), even though we didn't have a lot of money, my mum and dad looked into the option of boarding school, because the local school did not have a good reputation - I'm not talking exam scores here, I mean drug use and teen pregnancy, the traditional problems of schools in an area with very high unemployment. In the end, they chose to send my sister to the local school anyway and myself and my younger sister followed. A couple of things made this decision for them. They …

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• • 04 Oct 05
  • 10:05 am

  Am a big fan of Vonnegut, and of his predecessor by many years, William Blake, who said: "one law for the lion and the ox IS discrimination". How I've debated that one with myself over the years! The money spent on education is an investment in the future. It's not going to get any cheaper. Really, it's whether or not you're getting value for money - and you're probably right that the current public school system isn't good value for money - but then, if schools have to pay bus fare for ex-students to go elsewhere, on top of losing that …

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• • 04 Oct 05
  • 12:10 pm

  Hi Jay, I identify with you because we had a crappy career guidance teacher in our school too - really, if you didn't want to work in a bank, she didn't know what to do with you. We used to purposely tell her we were interested in bizarre careers just to throw her. It seems to me, though, that ultimately it was lack of money that prevented you going to college, not lack of good schooling - as with my own parents, yours may have been the reason you excelled, but certainly your school didn't hamper you, except for the disheartening …

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