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silveradept...well, went to see Steamboy tonight in a packed house (riiight - I knew probably half of the theater audience) and it was okay. The cast was excellent - the ADR scriptwriter probably needs a few more lessons. I picked out a few voices as being familiar (I've seen, or rather, heard, the main cast in other productions and so I went trawling around some resources - that confirmed that I know I've heard them all before.) and have already placed the movie in a fictional sort of timeline with another anime series. Mostly because they share a particular English cast member.
My bracket continues to fall apart, although I did manage to get at least one of the lower seed wins right - it's the only one, I might add, but one is better than zero. Immaterial, for the most part, but for the few who are interested, there you are.
Most would be more interested in something like this: Police arrest and handcuff 5-year-old girl. I suspect Zero Tolerance and a bit of frazzling are at fault here. The frazzling isn't such a problem, but the calling the police bit was a bit of overkill. No exoneration for the child, however, who threw the tantrum. Even if in kindergarten you're supposed to be learning how to get along, there are very few reasons to toss a temper at a teacher. This could have been resolved much easier, but the article hints that calling in the police is a regular occurrence there. If so, whatever happened to the teacher's authority? It would be better to homeschool, then, where the parents can enforce the idea of respect and learning. I suspect there's a funky policy in place there, and I'd like to know what it is.
Ran into some of my old friends at the theater as well, so I know they're alive at the very least.
Any my cold has left my nostrils mostly free - I'm sneezing more than before as a consequence, but it's moved upstairs and now I'm getting a very slight sinus headache because of it. Isn't that fun. Well, I'll get up tomorrow, probably let some of it out with a nice hot shower, then go watch some water polo. And possibly wonder if my bracket is going to self-destruct even more than usual this year. at least that's the least of my worries. I'm turning over the need to revise a thesis (mostly done, I hope), and eventually write two longer papers for my classes. And find a job. Always "and find a job". I'd stay on where I am, but I'm not sure that I'll have work all through the summer, so I need to find something else to suit me. This week went by fairly quickly - maybe it was because I always had stuff to do (plus, revising my thesis, while I slog through it, eats time like popcorn. Two weeks and counting, on both the thesis draft and the campus band material.)
Oh, the drama of my life. I am soooooo exciting, aren't I?
My bracket continues to fall apart, although I did manage to get at least one of the lower seed wins right - it's the only one, I might add, but one is better than zero. Immaterial, for the most part, but for the few who are interested, there you are.
Most would be more interested in something like this: Police arrest and handcuff 5-year-old girl. I suspect Zero Tolerance and a bit of frazzling are at fault here. The frazzling isn't such a problem, but the calling the police bit was a bit of overkill. No exoneration for the child, however, who threw the tantrum. Even if in kindergarten you're supposed to be learning how to get along, there are very few reasons to toss a temper at a teacher. This could have been resolved much easier, but the article hints that calling in the police is a regular occurrence there. If so, whatever happened to the teacher's authority? It would be better to homeschool, then, where the parents can enforce the idea of respect and learning. I suspect there's a funky policy in place there, and I'd like to know what it is.
Ran into some of my old friends at the theater as well, so I know they're alive at the very least.
Any my cold has left my nostrils mostly free - I'm sneezing more than before as a consequence, but it's moved upstairs and now I'm getting a very slight sinus headache because of it. Isn't that fun. Well, I'll get up tomorrow, probably let some of it out with a nice hot shower, then go watch some water polo. And possibly wonder if my bracket is going to self-destruct even more than usual this year. at least that's the least of my worries. I'm turning over the need to revise a thesis (mostly done, I hope), and eventually write two longer papers for my classes. And find a job. Always "and find a job". I'd stay on where I am, but I'm not sure that I'll have work all through the summer, so I need to find something else to suit me. This week went by fairly quickly - maybe it was because I always had stuff to do (plus, revising my thesis, while I slog through it, eats time like popcorn. Two weeks and counting, on both the thesis draft and the campus band material.)
Oh, the drama of my life. I am soooooo exciting, aren't I?
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Date: 2005-03-19 10:26 am (UTC)You are, of course, assuming that the parents are ever there and that they have the most remote clue how to enforce either. For the former, the chances are that the entire reason the kid is being sent there is that there's nobody at home to look after it for most of the day. Possibly for the latter as well, and even if not IME the number of parents who have the slightest control over their ... offspring is so close to zero as to make the exceptions statistically non-existent.
And I suspect that the reason they call the police has nothing to do with potential lack of ability but simply because they don't want to be sued if a parent finds out they've tried any discipline on the little brats (I can't check the page as Moz complains about redirect overflows)
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Date: 2005-03-19 01:58 pm (UTC)And yes, I am making the possibly incorrect assumption that a parent could leave the workforce long enough to homeschool and that they could at least rein in the most extreme behavior of their child.
The thing is, discipline should always be in the hands of the teachers - perhaps not corporal punishment, but the idea should be that the teach is someone to respect.