I dont know why this is such a surprise. More laws does not mean better enforcement, it is bass ackward press releases like this that have skewed this country.
The software really serves no purpose other than for the administrators to cover their own ass and create more anger at the system the stundents are in.
Dackin, the principal here, said Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective.
This software serves two purposes in my opinion.
1) to label students
2) to save the administrators from being embarrassed.
Labeling a person is the worst thing you could do to someone. It just creates more anger at the system the person is in, so now we have an endless loop. To install this program so that the administrators can say "It's not my fault, this kid was labeled." is just plain wrong. It goes back to making the student(s) even more angrier and more tension is built up. So any way this program is implemented it just plain sucks.
Anyone who goes to one of these schools with this program i say demand not to take it. Fight this thing and maybe one day the pendulum will swing back to the middle from all this knee jerk reaction.
Unfortunately at this point in time, we can't have both lightning fast information reporting with 100% accuracy. The two are inversely related.
Does this mean the uncertainty principle applies to journalism as well? =] The faster the news spreads the less likely we are to know how accurate it is?
This article is yet another example of american stupidity. This ruling comes as no surprise to me. The woman is stupid enough to waste 70k on gambling, she deserves to have to pay it off. That will teach her a lesson. But, the stupid judges feel that visa was to blame for allowing her to take out 70k? Visa is not to blame. Bad genes and lack of common sense are. This woman is the mandatory abortion poster child.
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I dont know why this is such a surprise. More laws does not mean better enforcement, it is bass ackward press releases like this that have skewed this country.
The software really serves no purpose other than for the administrators to cover their own ass and create more anger at the system the stundents are in.
Dackin, the principal here, said Mosaic's immediate virtue would be in producing detailed documentation of its evaluation of a troubled student so that doubting parents could no longer challenge an administrator's judgment as too subjective.
This software serves two purposes in my opinion.
1) to label students
2) to save the administrators from being embarrassed.
Labeling a person is the worst thing you could do to someone. It just creates more anger at the system the person is in, so now we have an endless loop. To install this program so that the administrators can say "It's not my fault, this kid was labeled." is just plain wrong. It goes back to making the student(s) even more angrier and more tension is built up. So any way this program is implemented it just plain sucks.
Anyone who goes to one of these schools with this program i say demand not to take it. Fight this thing and maybe one day the pendulum will swing back to the middle from all this knee jerk reaction.
Does this mean the uncertainty principle applies to journalism as well? =] The faster the news spreads the less likely we are to know how accurate it is?
This article is yet another example of american stupidity. This ruling comes as no surprise to me. The woman is stupid enough to waste 70k on gambling, she deserves to have to pay it off. That will teach her a lesson. But, the stupid judges feel that visa was to blame for allowing her to take out 70k? Visa is not to blame. Bad genes and lack of common sense are. This woman is the mandatory abortion poster child.