7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
1:41 p.m.
My wife asked for support on dealing with issues like this, and the
response was essentially a shrug. The child was not disciplined for what
was, regardless of her age, an assault on school staff.
Indeed. Children _do_ need to be disciplined. They do need to be taught
what is acceptable behaviour, and they do need to be punished. I do not
mean total cruelty, but the current idea of letting them do just about
anything is responsible for a lot of problems IMHO.
Incidentaly, I am convinced tht one punishement that should never be used
is setting extra schoolwork. Yes, having to translate a passage for,
$language to English, having to solve another 20 equations, etc, may well
be a pain. But you are giving the child that idea that all such work is a
punishment, and thus he/she will enver enjoy your lessons. Not Good.
My wife quit shortly thereafter. It wasn't
because she was afraid of
injury, but rather the sense of helplessness and hopelessness, realizing
that children like this are just being warehoused in a school system that
doesn't know how to address the needs of either high- or low-achieving
students, and muddles along in the middle.
Unfortuantely, I can think of few jobs less pleasant that attmepting to
tech things to kids who clearly don't want to learn such things
(conversely there are few things more satisfyuling that teaching people
who do want to learn).
Administrators are paid well, and there are a lot of them.
Enough of that, it's too damn depressing. I was rewiring the connections
between tape drives on a Unisys V380 this morning. The drives want to see
a 208V 40A three-phase feed. That's in addition to the 40A (single phase
240) to the CPU, and the 30A to the I/O cabinet. Those are some serious
That's serious power -- 10's of kW. What on earth does it use it all for?
How can a tape drive take 40A on 3 phases? The motors can't be that big,
surely?
wires, and they don't listen well when you ask
them to bend or coil. :-)
Having used 16mm^2 twin-and-earth, I know exactly what you mean...
-tony