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Techer's conference
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Techer's conference

I have been invited to a Sydney teacher's conference, as my friend's mum is a teacher. He is anti-school as well, so I won't get any trouble from him. He's already made a video talking about what he wants in the school system (mostly revolving around more freedom in subjects and learning processes). Anything anyone else would like me to say if I get the chance?
02-24-2010 02:17 PM
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Everything and anything you can without incurring those ridiculous ageist statements that are supposed to refute your arguments.

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02-24-2010 04:12 PM
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Yeah, how youth is being oppressed, age separation and grade separation in schools, how everyone is rounded off to the same, in basically 3 different levels. You can't really be different from those, if you take school as "learning" and the rest as "free time"... How school makes learning look bad, like a sacrifice.

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Give him something realistic.

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Bullying in schools around the world must be taken more seriously. If there is no change in the any schools stance on bullying rates of high school massacres, depression and suicides will significantly increase, that’s just my two cents.
02-28-2010 06:15 AM
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Ya, but they should take a realistic approach to deterring bullying. In my school, they've spread propaganda and had multiple assembly's on the matter which didn't really work. I'm not sure how they should go about doing it, but they way they've been doing it isn't working.

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If there even is a possibility of stopping it. It seems to be built into the system.

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