I agree. My sister bought GTA3 (for those of you totally unaware, that stands for Grant Theft Auto) for my birthday. I love it. I am having the best time running the taxi, ambulance, and fire engine missions. Careening around corners and running over pedestrians is quite a rush.
I am also a huge RPG lover. I have Arcanum and Baldur's Gate in my collection.
So, Loma, if you get any information on where to sign up, post it on here. I wonder how much we could make?
Noone should have to tell anyone what they read. As a high school librarian, I NEVER reveal what patrons have checked out. Teachers in elementary school would ask me who had a title out. I would tell them that I couldn't reveal that information but that the book was coming in on such and such a date.
I don't like this Act. I do realize there is a fine line between protecing privacy and protecting the general public. I can hear the question, "What if you had a student who checked out books about sabatoge and guns and the like on a consistent basis?". In a school my size, I can make an individual judgement call whether to quietly refer the matter to the mental health counselor, talk to the student myself, or involve the administration. But, in a large high school or public library, your options are more limited because you don't know your patrons. That would be a hard decision, and I can't say now which choice I would make. Report or keep silent? If I report, then I am violating that person's privacy. If I don't, and the patron blows up a bus or a building, then I am guilty because there was evidence that this person was going to commit a violent act.
I am going to have to sit down and think about this one for awhile....
The big problem with activities is teachers want to do groups with them all of the time. Groups can be a pain in the tail for a student who is
a) not a social butterfly
b) a worker (and has to put up with lazy bums in his group)
c) smart (and has to put up with people in the group who read on a third grade level)
Also activities take time - a rare commodity in public school...
Just my two cents
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I agree. My sister bought GTA3 (for those of you totally unaware, that stands for Grant Theft Auto) for my birthday. I love it. I am having the best time running the taxi, ambulance, and fire engine missions. Careening around corners and running over pedestrians is quite a rush.
I am also a huge RPG lover. I have Arcanum and Baldur's Gate in my collection.
So, Loma, if you get any information on where to sign up, post it on here. I wonder how much we could make?
Please tell me you are NOT a librarian!!!
I would NEVER tell what my students were reading.
Noone should have to tell anyone what they read. As a high school librarian, I NEVER reveal what patrons have checked out. Teachers in elementary school would ask me who had a title out. I would tell them that I couldn't reveal that information but that the book was coming in on such and such a date.
I don't like this Act. I do realize there is a fine line between protecing privacy and protecting the general public. I can hear the question, "What if you had a student who checked out books about sabatoge and guns and the like on a consistent basis?". In a school my size, I can make an individual judgement call whether to quietly refer the matter to the mental health counselor, talk to the student myself, or involve the administration. But, in a large high school or public library, your options are more limited because you don't know your patrons. That would be a hard decision, and I can't say now which choice I would make. Report or keep silent? If I report, then I am violating that person's privacy. If I don't, and the patron blows up a bus or a building, then I am guilty because there was evidence that this person was going to commit a violent act.
I am going to have to sit down and think about this one for awhile....
Now I have seen everthing. A pissed off Lego God. What gives with the angry eyebrows in the Genesis series?
Susan
The big problem with activities is teachers want to do groups with them all of the time. Groups can be a pain in the tail for a student who is a) not a social butterfly b) a worker (and has to put up with lazy bums in his group) c) smart (and has to put up with people in the group who read on a third grade level) Also activities take time - a rare commodity in public school ...
Just my two cents