Pretty easy. Find a definition that makes Pluto a planet without making too much other bodies in the solar system planets too.
For instance you could define "solar planet" as "celestial body other than the sun in the solar system with more than 2000 km in diameter which was discovered by mankind before 1990":)
And imagine how thoroughly bugged anything in China has to be right now, or are you thinking any secret service worth its salt would sit idle and not trying to figure out what's really going on in China?
how it would be constitutional to enact laws that were developed behind closed doors by private interests?
How would it not? There is a parliament, whose members are elected by the public, and whose task is it, to enact laws. That's how it is put down in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that every proposed law has to be published first and being discussed by the public. That's what the debates in the parliament are for.
That's purifying, but not exactly distilling. Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture (see Wikipedia). So to actually distill water, you have to boil it.
No, salt can be easily removed from water by distilling. But some organic matter has a boiling point at around the same temperature than water and thus is not removed by a simple distilling process.
I don't know about the U.S. but at least in Germany, only bills are "real" money, that is: you can only pay your debt with money bills. The Münzgesetz ("Coin Law") requires the creditor to accept a maximum of 200 coins, but no more. If you try to pay of EUR 25,000 with 2,500,000 cent coins, then the creditor has to accept 200 coins or 2 EUR as paid, and you are still EUR 24,998 in debt.
Just call you home schooling a "school" and get it approved. For approval you have to prove that your school meets certain standards on infrastructure and your teachers certain standards on education.
In Germany, it is. Chapter 6(2) of the German Constitution states that it is the parent's right and also responsibility to provide education, and Chapter 7(4) and 7(5) define the general acceptance of private schools if they meet a minimal standard. Especially Chapter 7(5) states that a private primary school has to be allowed as community school or for religious or ideological reasons.
So the family Romeike in the above case had the right to educate their children, if they had followed certain minimal standards, which mostly concern the infrastructure of the school and the minimum education of the teachers.
No, the curriculum is not fixed. And it differs between the states in Germany. In Saxony for instance there are "recognized private schools", which are allowed to hold their own exams, and "approved private schools", whose attendance is recognized as "fulfilling school duty", but which can't give recognized credentials, so that pupils of those schools have to take exams somewhere else. If you want home schooling in Saxony, you have to a) found a "private school", b) find an examined teacher to teach there and c) send in a curriculum to get approval that this is sufficient to fulfill school duty.
There is more to this. School duty was introduced in the 18th century in several german states, starting out with a required four year education. It was the time of the Enlightenment, and some authorities thought it would be nice if the people got at least a minimal education, like the ability to read and write. But in many villages children were not sent to the schools but instead on the fields to work. So the basic education became a duty, later one expanded to at least 9 years of school and at least a professional education. And how do you determine if the children get the dutiful education? Germany decided that it recognizes the education as sufficient, if it is performed by an examined teacher.
There is nothing wrong with homeschooling at all. And you will always find an example of a single person who ran fine with a certain type of education. All the german law requires is that the education is done by an examined teacher.
In Germany you aren't even required to put your children in a public school at all! All you have to warrant is that they get an education at all. And "education" is defined in this case as "being educated by an examined teacher". If the family Romeike didn't fiddle around and play hide-and-seek with the authorities but were either taking the exams themselves of finding a teacher with the exams and with educational views to their likes, everything would have been fine.
But that's not the issue at hand. You are perfectly allowed in Germany to send your children to a private school or even home school them. You just have to warrant that they get something the law recognizes as "education", and this is defined in Germany as "being educated by an examined teacher". The family Romeike wasn't able to name a teacher for their children who got the required exams, and thus the verdict was that they couldn't prove they educate their children at all, which is criminal negligence.
The German government apparently does not recognize a parent's right to "protect" children from opposing religious views through home-schooling, and intended to compel attendance.
No, that's not correct. Germany requires that the education is performed by a teacher who took the state exam. The family wasn't able to name a teacher with the required exam to continue the schooling, also the authorities said: You can't prove that you are teaching your children at all, and that's criminal negligence.
No, you don't. There are enough private schools with different methods and different curricula: Montessori, Waldorf, christian schools...
All you have to warrant is that the teacher has at least the First State Exam (there is a second one required if you want to teach at a public school).
Germany did. And they thought that a child has the right to equal chances with every other child in Germany. And that means that it also has the right to an education equivalent to the education all the other children get, and this right is not to be withhold, not even by the child's parents. They are allowed to homeschool their children if they take the exams required by law to be allowed to teach children. The parents didn't, and so the law said, they weren't providing their children equal chances, and thus got fined.
Germany has school duty for all children older than six years up to 9 to 12 years in school (depends on the actual state). And "duty" means that a state examined teacher is required for schooling. You want home schooling? Then get the exam, and you are perfectly fine schooling your children at home.
Slashdot Mirror
gerania.
Pretty easy. Find a definition that makes Pluto a planet without making too much other bodies in the solar system planets too.
For instance you could define "solar planet" as "celestial body other than the sun in the solar system with more than 2000 km in diameter which was discovered by mankind before 1990" :)
Calvin's dad looks like Bill Watterson's dad actually.
He controls money. That's what he's doing there. And he is a Swiss citizen, so he has all the rights of Switzerland to be in Davos, Switzerland.
And imagine how thoroughly bugged anything in China has to be right now, or are you thinking any secret service worth its salt would sit idle and not trying to figure out what's really going on in China?
how it would be constitutional to enact laws that were developed behind closed doors by private interests?
How would it not? There is a parliament, whose members are elected by the public, and whose task is it, to enact laws. That's how it is put down in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that every proposed law has to be published first and being discussed by the public. That's what the debates in the parliament are for.
That's purifying, but not exactly distilling. Distillation is a method of separating mixtures based on differences in their volatilities in a boiling liquid mixture (see Wikipedia). So to actually distill water, you have to boil it.
No, salt can be easily removed from water by distilling. But some organic matter has a boiling point at around the same temperature than water and thus is not removed by a simple distilling process.
I don't know about the U.S. but at least in Germany, only bills are "real" money, that is: you can only pay your debt with money bills. The Münzgesetz ("Coin Law") requires the creditor to accept a maximum of 200 coins, but no more. If you try to pay of EUR 25,000 with 2,500,000 cent coins, then the creditor has to accept 200 coins or 2 EUR as paid, and you are still EUR 24,998 in debt.
Just call you home schooling a "school" and get it approved. For approval you have to prove that your school meets certain standards on infrastructure and your teachers certain standards on education.
In Germany, it is. Chapter 6(2) of the German Constitution states that it is the parent's right and also responsibility to provide education, and Chapter 7(4) and 7(5) define the general acceptance of private schools if they meet a minimal standard. Especially Chapter 7(5) states that a private primary school has to be allowed as community school or for religious or ideological reasons.
So the family Romeike in the above case had the right to educate their children, if they had followed certain minimal standards, which mostly concern the infrastructure of the school and the minimum education of the teachers.
No, the curriculum is not fixed. And it differs between the states in Germany. In Saxony for instance there are "recognized private schools", which are allowed to hold their own exams, and "approved private schools", whose attendance is recognized as "fulfilling school duty", but which can't give recognized credentials, so that pupils of those schools have to take exams somewhere else.
If you want home schooling in Saxony, you have to a) found a "private school", b) find an examined teacher to teach there and c) send in a curriculum to get approval that this is sufficient to fulfill school duty.
There is more to this. School duty was introduced in the 18th century in several german states, starting out with a required four year education. It was the time of the Enlightenment, and some authorities thought it would be nice if the people got at least a minimal education, like the ability to read and write. But in many villages children were not sent to the schools but instead on the fields to work. So the basic education became a duty, later one expanded to at least 9 years of school and at least a professional education.
And how do you determine if the children get the dutiful education? Germany decided that it recognizes the education as sufficient, if it is performed by an examined teacher.
No, the Romeikes were just a pain in the ass, and everyone is glad they are gone. :)
There is nothing wrong with homeschooling at all. And you will always find an example of a single person who ran fine with a certain type of education. All the german law requires is that the education is done by an examined teacher.
Home schooling is not banned in Germany. It just has to be performed by a state examined teacher.
In Germany you aren't even required to put your children in a public school at all! All you have to warrant is that they get an education at all. And "education" is defined in this case as "being educated by an examined teacher". If the family Romeike didn't fiddle around and play hide-and-seek with the authorities but were either taking the exams themselves of finding a teacher with the exams and with educational views to their likes, everything would have been fine.
But that's not the issue at hand. You are perfectly allowed in Germany to send your children to a private school or even home school them. You just have to warrant that they get something the law recognizes as "education", and this is defined in Germany as "being educated by an examined teacher". The family Romeike wasn't able to name a teacher for their children who got the required exams, and thus the verdict was that they couldn't prove they educate their children at all, which is criminal negligence.
The German government apparently does not recognize a parent's right to "protect" children from opposing religious views through home-schooling, and intended to compel attendance.
No, that's not correct. Germany requires that the education is performed by a teacher who took the state exam. The family wasn't able to name a teacher with the required exam to continue the schooling, also the authorities said: You can't prove that you are teaching your children at all, and that's criminal negligence.
Germany doesn't stop you from educating your children yourself. All you have to do is taking an exam required by law to do so.
No, you don't. There are enough private schools with different methods and different curricula: Montessori, Waldorf, christian schools...
All you have to warrant is that the teacher has at least the First State Exam (there is a second one required if you want to teach at a public school).
Germany did. And they thought that a child has the right to equal chances with every other child in Germany. And that means that it also has the right to an education equivalent to the education all the other children get, and this right is not to be withhold, not even by the child's parents. They are allowed to homeschool their children if they take the exams required by law to be allowed to teach children. The parents didn't, and so the law said, they weren't providing their children equal chances, and thus got fined.
Germany has school duty for all children older than six years up to 9 to 12 years in school (depends on the actual state). And "duty" means that a state examined teacher is required for schooling. You want home schooling? Then get the exam, and you are perfectly fine schooling your children at home.
It reduces them to one per driver at a maximum.
Why? It is in the official technical documentation. Just go and read it yourself :)