The horror

SDA points to a new hospital gown introduced in England which brings the burka to the gurney. Yawn…

However, the real atrocity occurs in this lovely bit of English:

The blue “Inter-Faith Gown” is the first of its type in Britain and has been trialled at the Royal Preston Hospital. It will be available to those who want it from November 1.
afp via brietbart

Trialled!

Sigh.

Written by jay on September 7th, 2006 with no comments.
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D-Day

September 5 arrived. First day of school.

Six months of research and reflection have convinced us that home schooling Sam is pretty much the way to go. We’ll review the decision at the end of the year.

What it comes down to is not the quality of the schools - in Victoria most of the schools are good to excellent. Nor is it a particular desire to inculcate our values and only our values. We have values but they are pretty mainstream and we could tolerate the assorrted bits of pc nuttieness which are dropped into the school day.

No, when it comes right down to it our decision is based on the simple logic of the numbers and the nature of the system.

Industrial schooling requires a relatively high student teacher ratio. In a good school you might find a ratio of 20-25 kids to one teacher. Which means next to no one on one instruction. It also means a child spending time - a lot of time - with other kids more or less exactly his or her own age.

Neither is particularily conducive to learning.

At the moment we are blessed with a little boy who is keenly eager to learn. He want’s more arithmetic questions and is practicing making his “3’s” which keeep looking like “S’s”. He’s a bit shy abbout reading aloud but loves playing with the assorted flash card sets. He wants to go to the Provincial museum today, tomorrow and everyday.

We think this is too good to risk.

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