We must be tolerant and dissent is not allowed

May 18, 2006 19:22

Have had a bit of a bout of presentation and observation being remarkably congruent recently.

A couple of weeks ago, read a long feature article in The Age about the difficulty in getting people to apply for principal jobs in Victorian schools. The large, growing and complex regulatory burden they had to deal with was cited as a prime cause. ( Read more... )

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usuakari May 19 2006, 10:02:39 UTC
Sounds like a very cool presentation. I would have loved to have seen that one. :)

On the subject of PC-ness and school captains; teenagers are innately and surprisingly conservative, and very much all about wanting to be seen/heard saying/doing the 'correct' thing for that particular social context. People don't start getting interestingly radical until they hit uni, at a bare minimum, and frequently it takes longer than that. I wouldn't be weeping for the future of our society just yet.

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Twas fun erudito May 19 2006, 21:25:03 UTC
Folk did seem to enjoy it. Nigel and I certainly did :)

I take your point, but (1) there is an enormous waste of resources involved and (2) there are various adverse consequences. Not merely does it give a hugely unnecessary lever to help jihadi recruitment, but some of the wider policy consequences are not good, and disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged in our society. (See previous post.)

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