http://www.iirep.com/page14.htm
I'd like to draw everyone's attention to this.
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- Wed May 24, 2006 11:17 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: An SES member says: it's time for an SES apology
- Replies: 67
- Views: 102351
- Fri Apr 28, 2006 2:34 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 362915
I wasn't going to post on the board any more, but it seems such a shame to stop at 98. Wasn't there a cricketer who ended his career with an average of 99.99? Bonsai has hit the nail on the head, for my money. If you believe that you're superior in some way, or set apart from the ordinary run of hum...
- Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:57 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
You think somehow you're the only one who's ever heard bad language and brutish abuse? The only difference between me and you is that you think it's big and clever to repeat it. What I'm saying is that if people think of you as a stooge, they don't respect you or your words. In that situation, you'r...
- Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:09 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
- Thu Apr 27, 2006 9:34 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
Suggesting someone is a 'stooge' for the SES is hardly 'personal abuse'. Oh, really? Do you regard it as a term of affection? Badge of honour? Personally speaking, it seems to me like I've wasted a month trying to establish that it's possible to be a member of the School and objective about it, bec...
- Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:34 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
- Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:48 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
Phew! That stirred things up, eh! My use of the angry faces :bad-words: were an illustration of the emotional atmosphere on the board, NOT of my feelings towards it. Anyway ... as I've said before, I don't mind people being angry who have good reason. I have a tiny issue with people who get most of ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:36 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
mm- OK, but 20 or 65 still means it's one of the top schools in the country, no? Top 0.1 % I suppose. My own children were there till recently, and I didn't notice them suffering as a result of the quirky teaching methods. When they went to state school afterwards they were 2 years ahead of most of ...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 1:16 pm
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
Daffy, I've read those posts, of course, and very moving they are. But the Governors aren't the same people as the teachers. They're not in a position to speak personally and, for the reason outlined already, they would be well advised to stay away from here. My main point, of course, is that the at...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:21 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
ADG No, I was responding to Alban's post, I personally don't see why I should take up the governors invitation when they haven't taken up ours. Come to this site and talk - you will be heard, you will get the chance to talk to us directly, you will have a chance to appologise, and if you conduct you...
- Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:17 am
- Forum: St James and St Vedast
- Topic: Letters to governors "private and confidential"
- Replies: 90
- Views: 122411
What are you scared of? In case you don't realise, people generally don't enjoy conversing in an atmosphere where they are hated, vilified and mistrusted. Daska's post is quite typical of the kind of 'reconcile this , you b@st*rds!' reaction that can be expected for even the brand of mild approval ...
- Thu Apr 20, 2006 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 362915
- Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:59 am
- Forum: General discussion of SES
- Topic: Aversion to Classical Music
- Replies: 45
- Views: 66171
- Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:36 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 362915
- Tue Apr 18, 2006 10:55 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 362915
A 'footnote to Plato' isn't a footnote that references Plato! D'oh! This quote from Emerson at the head of the article I linked to explains the sense of it: "Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato, -- at once the glory and the shame of mankind, since neither Saxon nor Roman have availed to add a...