Re: Global warming and your garden

On May 21, 3:12 am, Persephone wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:30:24 -0700 (PDT), MajorOz
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> <Majo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On May 20, 6:48 pm, Persephone wrote:
> >> On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:37:24 -0400, "J. Clarke"
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> >> <jclarke.use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> [...]
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> >> >The thing that is frightening is that so many people, having gone
> >> >through that, then willingly subject their own kids to it.
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> >> Willingly?  I dunno...lots of parents would love to send their
> >> children to good private schools but can't even begin to
> >> think about paying those prices.  And I mean parents who
> >> are willing to sacrifice, big-time!  The only places that still teach
> >> the 3Rs are the religious schools, because they get teachers
> >> on the cheap.
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> >Kinda shoots the argument that paying teachers more would result in
> >better education.
> >Actually, the reason private / religious schools produce better
> >products is that they are allowed to exact discipline.
> >As a frequent temp, I have that luxury in the public school.  Students
> >act up, I throw them out.
> >"Where should I go" they ask.
> >"I don't care" I answer.
> >Then I get on with the task of the day to, usually, interested
> >students.
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> >cheers
>
> >oz
>
> Must be across the Pond.

....only my catfish pond...

>Temps in the U.S. public schools,
> especially large urban ones, have a terrible time.

Not me, for various reasons; one stated.  Classroom discipline, for
me, is not a problem.  It is amazing how many of the other problems
disappear when that one is solved.  I am in one of the most rural of
rural areas, in the Ozarks.

>A dear friend of
> mine (now deceased) was a writer who eked out a living by
> substituting.  He re****ted spit balls along with every kind of
> nuisance and disturbance.  Subs like him generally wise up
> and run a movie for the students while they read a book.

Sorry to hear that.  Were I permanent faculty, I couldn't get away
with throwing the trouble makers out.  However, as a temp, I have a
lot of freedom in means and method.  "You don't like it, don't call
me"

cheers

oz, who much prefers college level teaching where they come motivated.