Oops, meant to say in my previous post: the school stuck by their decision and the principle stated that it was due to "upholding the high standards of the school.". Also the article states that school pants are $55, the pair she wore were $15 ("Banned for $15 pants").
(in particular, science, maths and technical subjects)
This happened at my school when I was in Year 8. A new teacher came and was told to teach Art, Science and Tech for our class.. despite the only class he had studied (I believe) was Art, possibly Science. It was a few years before he got to teach classes he'd actually expected, and he ended up quitting and getting a job in the 'real world' (I quoted him in the blog, as I'd emailed him about the situation - his response was: "It's a shame about the multimedia course, heard from a few people that its heading down the toilet. All those years spent building it up, and it takes [teachers name removed] 3 months to tear it apart! Asshole! Sorry dude! Had to get out.")
It makes me sad that the principle was more interested in preventing negative publicity than actually taking the constructive criticisms onboard. Oh, our school has made it into The Herald Sun before because a girl was suspended 'indefinitely' for wearing pants without the school emblem on them (despite being exactly the same in all other respects, and all of the girls do it as they cost $15 instead of about $40)
No-one "perving" on 16/17/18 year old girls is a paedophile. Creepy, maybe - but even that's dependent on how "hot" said girls think he is.
Try the age range of 12 to 15 (Secondary School, Year 7 to 9, in Australia). A family-friend in Year 9 told her Mum that they don't like it when he's around them (he always volunteers to do things like Year 7/8 Swimming Sports), and when Mum spoke to her Mum and told her the name of the person I mentioned, she was like "Oh my, that's the name of the teacher my daughter is uncomfortable with..".
If it comes to court, remember to point out that a "pedophile" is a foot fetishist. I'm guessing you meant a "paedophile", but luckily for you you got it wrong.:-)
Got a source?
According to Wikipedia, both spellings are correct (I believe Pedophile is 'British' spelling?)
Hi, I'm in Australia and I'm slightly older than you (28).
I'd suggest writing a letter to your local representative and to the local and state newspapers. Write, write, write. Explain your situation, explain how you were treated.
Thanks for the advice:). I was considering doing this, had to wait until I was certain I'd be allowed to sit exams first (I believe they could've expelled me entirely, and because 'mirrors' of the blog kept popping up [People had printed it out to show their parents], this was sort've implied).
The thing is, couldn't I get a bad name for myself out of this? I am fine with the entire piece except the line stating that we (the students) suspect a teacher is a pedophile (as explained in one of my other replies). If I push this, could they push back?
They may allow you back in or to retake the test in simple self defense. You will likely be seeing some hardball. The accusations on your site can be enough to keep an elected official out of office or get a superintendent fired. Again consult the lawyer first, but pointing out that it will get into the local news may cause a really amazing effect.
They're not letting me back in, school is already over. The exams are already in progress.. it all happened at the worst possible time. Also, there was libel in one portion - I relayed on the fact several people call one of the teachers a pedophile (In the opinion of many people, he's the creepy teacher.. A lot of my female friends have told me tales of him 'perving' on them on free dress days). My 'accusation' was meant in jest (It was more satire of the fact people call him a pedophile, which is over the top, but at the same time going the other way), but it could still be construed as libel if they wished.
Note: I should point out.. I'm aware Australia doesn't have freedom of speech laws. Also, I was a grade A student (for most things), and my final mark will still go on my previous schools records.. so really, they haven't lost out at all.
Oh, and one of the unqualified multimedia teachers ended up not being at school the next day - she (unsurprisingly) had a Professional Development day. Apparently they were completing their Multimedia certificate to be qualified to teach, but weren't legally allowed to yet. The teachers also didn't realise they had to keep copies of assessment work - all of our work was deleted 'upon review', to 'make it easier' for the teacher (because, you know, he couldn't move it to a "Been Marked" folder) - this came up when I asked him why I'd lost marks.. he told me he didn't know because my work was deleted weeks ago.
Sorry to comment-jack, but I think you guys here on Slashdot will be interested in this, it's the first chance I've really had to discuss it, and it's extremely relevant to this thread.
Sorry in advance that it's poorly written, my brains frazzled from studying and I don't have time to plan it properly.
About 6 weeks ago I was 'removed' from my school (in Victoria, Australia) for writing a blog. I'm eighteen, doing my VCE (Year 12) and two days after writing it my Mum was called and asked to bring me in (and asked to pull me out of work specifically for it.. she didn't, so they waited at the school until seven so that they could do it that night).
The blog in question was satirical, and made fun of numerous things about the school (spending so much on toilets when they're still so crap, our health teachers poor understanding of some contraception methods, the fact we put had 'annual festivities' to impress visitors from Japan, my new VET Multimedia teachers, a picture of a condom found on the floor in the Year 7-9 toilets (12 to 15)). I named some names (of the teachers, and one student who made a webpage which received an award despite coming straight out of 1995). I realise in retrospect I did a lot of things wrong, but hear me out.
I was told, in the 'meeting', that I was not to come back to school. Clear my locker out and leave. She (the principal) would 'speak to the region' and I'd probably get transferred. I had 4 weeks to go, then exams. Excluding holidays. In the first week, nothing was done, we waited to find out what was happening (heard very little). Then 2 weeks of holidays (which of course no-one works), then the next week we were told I'd be sitting my SACs at my house (with teacher supervision) and doing my exams at another school 30 km away. In the meeting, I'd offered EVERYTHING to keep myself there. I apologised, my Mum tried to get her to address the more pressing concerns in the blog (neither of my VET Multimedia teachers were qualified to teach the course), but she ignored this. I was told to take the blog down or they'd speak to their legal team (apparently some parts were defammatory).
In the end, I was able to contact my teachers - through her.. A very slow process. Now, it's exam time. I've done alright so far, but my ENTER score is seriously going to suffer from the fact I missed out on the most crucial part of the year. Does the school care? No. The Department of Education said that her actions were completely reasonable.. This is despite the fact she was also mentioned in said blog, as the handicap parking spot in the car park was removed and, ala, a spot for her showed up:).
So, this isn't the first case. Oh, and wish me luck with my exam tomorrow..
If you want to ask questions, just reply here and I'll answer them. Don't waste your time flaming me, I realise in retrospect to watch what you say online, but come on.. it was meant for a cheap laugh, and my serious attempts to address the issues were ignored. It was a creative outlet for me and it's seriously affected my future.. alas, I have no recourse it'd seem. Also, anyone who commented on the blog was banned from all Year 12 events - Muck up day, valedictory (graudation) dinner, etc.
Looks to me like Comcast oversells capacity (like basically every other utility does), and it trying to get around this problem by hitting back at the folks who are clogging up The Tubes with stuff they agreed they wouldn't do in the first place. I'm not exactly sympathetic to the whining from the folks trying to get a movie without paying for it.
Hardly. How often does your power go out because there simply isn't enough to go around? I know we have blackouts occasionally caused by this, but it'd be like your power going off every night at 5-6 pm because you used the most in your neighbourhood. You still pay to use it, but they still don't like it. As for your final point, keep in mind legal things exist in the p2p realm.
I'm sorry, but to all those who say that they're using their mod-chips for legitimate purposes: who are you trying to fool? I can see the point that you might not want your kids or your dogs chewing on your games
It's obvious you don't have kids, from your post. Living in a family with 3 younger siblings, I know things happen 'by accident' and no matter what you do, something will inevitably stop working. Originally, my nine year old brother wasn't allowed to load Wii discs, but now he is. Eventually that will go wrong, but there isn't always someone there to help him and he needs to learn how to do it and be careful eventually. If I wasn't so protective, they'd be careless with the discs eventually and they'd stop working. What do you suggest I do, buy a new Wii sports disc? (And how do I get cover on that, it comes with the Wii..) I'm not sure if that's even possible, but it's certainly not something I'd be pleased to do.
Alternately, if there was some sort of service where I could send back scratched up discs and get a new one for $5 or something. Then, I'd understand them cracking down, but for now, backups is a perfectly legitimate 'excuse'. (Note: my Wii isn't chipped, but it will be as soon as any of my discs stop working)
I do not think this would be a good idea (for TPB), since it would strengthen the argument that TPB just wanted to rip off the (old) IPFI.
Correct, this would not be a good idea. See Mike Rowe Soft
Relevant quote:
He responded, asking instead for $10,000. However, in doing this, he unwittingly fulfilled one of the criteria for proving a bad faith domain registration as set out in the Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy; namely, that as Rowe had offered to sell the domain name to the company for profit, it was considered evidence that he had no right or legitimate interest in the domain name.
To compensate, try cutting the fuel costs by siphoning off the neighbours' gasoline.
Oh come on, I thought Slashdot had concluded that Copyright Infringment != Stealing.
Though I'm sick of analogies, a closer one would be something like "To compensate, try cutting the fuel costs by carpooling with your neighbour".
[I posted this last time FoxIt was mentioned but it didn't get seen]
This may be slightly OT, but please don't mod it as such. I use FoxIt and I have a problem. Whenever I open the solutions file for a textbook I use for school, the text is barely readable. Yet in Adobe Reader, it's fine.
Any ideas? I like FoxIt, but I can't use it! Note: The zoom is set to the same on both, zooming on FoxIt doesn't help the issue. Also sorry the screenshot is so small, I uploaded a larger one but BayImg didn't like it for some reason.
today nobody wants to wait 36+ hours for their movie selection to download through clogged P2P nodes
Huh!? Maybe if you're on dialup. I remember back in the dialup days I'd get like 200 or 300mb cams (obviously not the best quality). It'd take 20 hours or so but it'd be much quicker than waiting for it to be released here.
Nowadays, I'm on 8mbit (in Australia). I can get 700 MB in roughly 20 minutes, assuming little congestion. And I have, in the past. It's hardly 36+ hours, these days.
Machines can't even translate back and forward properly. For example, Google Translator.
My girlfriends in Germany so one of my friends was messing around translating silly things to German. For one of them, he put: Selina's tang is mighty fine Which translated to: Der tang von Selina ist mächtige Geldstrafe
When I translated this back to English (he didn't tell me the original phrase till later: The seaweed of Selina is powerful fine... Seaweed? Odd!
Anyone wonder why they've been researching Ethernet over Powerlines? They already have the cables deployed all over the place, they just need to get the data flowing along with all of the other electrons.
Incorrect. Most high-voltage runs are accompanied by (at least some) fibre optic cable. At least, this is true in Australia (my father works for one of the larger transmission companies here).
I believe it's also true in the US because I read somewhere the power companies were onselling this to ISPs?
Ah, a classic/. post then. You know nothing about the subject, you haven't read the article, you have nothing of value to say, yet you insist on posting your ill-informed opinion anyway. Why doesn't this surprise me any more?
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Oops, meant to say in my previous post: the school stuck by their decision and the principle stated that it was due to "upholding the high standards of the school.". Also the article states that school pants are $55, the pair she wore were $15 ("Banned for $15 pants").
It makes me sad that the principle was more interested in preventing negative publicity than actually taking the constructive criticisms onboard. Oh, our school has made it into The Herald Sun before because a girl was suspended 'indefinitely' for wearing pants without the school emblem on them (despite being exactly the same in all other respects, and all of the girls do it as they cost $15 instead of about $40)
According to Wikipedia, both spellings are correct (I believe Pedophile is 'British' spelling?)
Frankston sort of area. Yourself?
Thanks for the advice
The thing is, couldn't I get a bad name for myself out of this? I am fine with the entire piece except the line stating that we (the students) suspect a teacher is a pedophile (as explained in one of my other replies). If I push this, could they push back?
Note: I should point out.. I'm aware Australia doesn't have freedom of speech laws. Also, I was a grade A student (for most things), and my final mark will still go on my previous schools records.. so really, they haven't lost out at all.
Oh, and one of the unqualified multimedia teachers ended up not being at school the next day - she (unsurprisingly) had a Professional Development day. Apparently they were completing their Multimedia certificate to be qualified to teach, but weren't legally allowed to yet. The teachers also didn't realise they had to keep copies of assessment work - all of our work was deleted 'upon review', to 'make it easier' for the teacher (because, you know, he couldn't move it to a "Been Marked" folder) - this came up when I asked him why I'd lost marks.. he told me he didn't know because my work was deleted weeks ago.
Sorry to comment-jack, but I think you guys here on Slashdot will be interested in this, it's the first chance I've really had to discuss it, and it's extremely relevant to this thread.
:).
Sorry in advance that it's poorly written, my brains frazzled from studying and I don't have time to plan it properly.
About 6 weeks ago I was 'removed' from my school (in Victoria, Australia) for writing a blog. I'm eighteen, doing my VCE (Year 12) and two days after writing it my Mum was called and asked to bring me in (and asked to pull me out of work specifically for it.. she didn't, so they waited at the school until seven so that they could do it that night).
The blog in question was satirical, and made fun of numerous things about the school (spending so much on toilets when they're still so crap, our health teachers poor understanding of some contraception methods, the fact we put had 'annual festivities' to impress visitors from Japan, my new VET Multimedia teachers, a picture of a condom found on the floor in the Year 7-9 toilets (12 to 15)). I named some names (of the teachers, and one student who made a webpage which received an award despite coming straight out of 1995). I realise in retrospect I did a lot of things wrong, but hear me out.
I was told, in the 'meeting', that I was not to come back to school. Clear my locker out and leave. She (the principal) would 'speak to the region' and I'd probably get transferred. I had 4 weeks to go, then exams. Excluding holidays. In the first week, nothing was done, we waited to find out what was happening (heard very little). Then 2 weeks of holidays (which of course no-one works), then the next week we were told I'd be sitting my SACs at my house (with teacher supervision) and doing my exams at another school 30 km away. In the meeting, I'd offered EVERYTHING to keep myself there. I apologised, my Mum tried to get her to address the more pressing concerns in the blog (neither of my VET Multimedia teachers were qualified to teach the course), but she ignored this. I was told to take the blog down or they'd speak to their legal team (apparently some parts were defammatory).
In the end, I was able to contact my teachers - through her.. A very slow process. Now, it's exam time. I've done alright so far, but my ENTER score is seriously going to suffer from the fact I missed out on the most crucial part of the year. Does the school care? No. The Department of Education said that her actions were completely reasonable.. This is despite the fact she was also mentioned in said blog, as the handicap parking spot in the car park was removed and, ala, a spot for her showed up
So, this isn't the first case. Oh, and wish me luck with my exam tomorrow..
If you want to ask questions, just reply here and I'll answer them. Don't waste your time flaming me, I realise in retrospect to watch what you say online, but come on.. it was meant for a cheap laugh, and my serious attempts to address the issues were ignored. It was a creative outlet for me and it's seriously affected my future.. alas, I have no recourse it'd seem. Also, anyone who commented on the blog was banned from all Year 12 events - Muck up day, valedictory (graudation) dinner, etc.
Australia.. so much for a free country.
If your password was "peach", would you want the system to accept "peacj" as being "close enough"?
It's obvious you don't have kids, from your post. Living in a family with 3 younger siblings, I know things happen 'by accident' and no matter what you do, something will inevitably stop working. Originally, my nine year old brother wasn't allowed to load Wii discs, but now he is. Eventually that will go wrong, but there isn't always someone there to help him and he needs to learn how to do it and be careful eventually. If I wasn't so protective, they'd be careless with the discs eventually and they'd stop working. What do you suggest I do, buy a new Wii sports disc? (And how do I get cover on that, it comes with the Wii..) I'm not sure if that's even possible, but it's certainly not something I'd be pleased to do.
Alternately, if there was some sort of service where I could send back scratched up discs and get a new one for $5 or something. Then, I'd understand them cracking down, but for now, backups is a perfectly legitimate 'excuse'.
(Note: my Wii isn't chipped, but it will be as soon as any of my discs stop working)
Relevant quote:
[I posted this last time FoxIt was mentioned but it didn't get seen] This may be slightly OT, but please don't mod it as such. I use FoxIt and I have a problem. Whenever I open the solutions file for a textbook I use for school, the text is barely readable. Yet in Adobe Reader, it's fine.
See screenshot [bayimg.com]
Any ideas? I like FoxIt, but I can't use it!
Note: The zoom is set to the same on both, zooming on FoxIt doesn't help the issue. Also sorry the screenshot is so small, I uploaded a larger one but BayImg didn't like it for some reason.
Nowadays, I'm on 8mbit (in Australia). I can get 700 MB in roughly 20 minutes, assuming little congestion. And I have, in the past. It's hardly 36+ hours, these days.
Hrmm.. not for me. Check out screenshot
Can someone explain to to me? Google Maps is the first result when I click that link..
Machines can't even translate back and forward properly. For example, Google Translator.
... Seaweed? Odd!
My girlfriends in Germany so one of my friends was messing around translating silly things to German. For one of them, he put:
Selina's tang is mighty fine
Which translated to:
Der tang von Selina ist mächtige Geldstrafe
When I translated this back to English (he didn't tell me the original phrase till later:
The seaweed of Selina is powerful fine
I believe it's also true in the US because I read somewhere the power companies were onselling this to ISPs?