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Friday Saturday Hoyden: Caroline Chisholm
This fairly blunt profile of Caroline Chisholm presents her as an impressive but uncomfortable woman due to her uncompromising standards, and came as a bit of an eye-opener to me in terms of sanitised school history: the fact that the young immigrant underclass women that she was training had been lured to the Australian colonies where they were left to fend for themselves and would have no options other than prostitution or crime to earn a living was very heavily glossed over
Metaphysics, Parenting, and the Supernova.
We revisited the end of the Earth today.
The Lad (aged six) and I were reading Beowulf over lunch. Not my choice; the lad is drawn to it. He suddenly stopped me, starting to look upset.
Whoydensday: New Doctor Who through the eyes of a six year old
After much to-ing and fro-ing, we eventually decided to let the Lad watch some New Doctor.
“Everyone’s frightened of something different,” was part of my rationale.
Partner is freaked out by supernatural and ghostly stuff, like The Empty Child. For me, the Daleks do it. “Who knows what the Lad’s triggers are?,” we said, “Monsters, aliens, Daleks – it could be anything. We’ll just be there for him, and have fun.”
So we did, and he OMGloved the first episode.
The fast track to devil worship: Humanist ethics in public schools
I wrote a while back about Special Religious Education (SRE) in State schools in Australia. The are problems both with the concept itself, and with the State-by-State implementation. WA Today reports that some Victorian students may soon have access to… Read More ›
Oh ffs are they serious?
Mindy, regular commentor Ralph Magazine planned to give away free inflatable boobs with their next issue. Unfortunately the shipment seems to have been lost at sea. How sad. On another topic, I really shouldn’t have let myself watch the SBS… Read More ›
Letter to Santa
The lad’s school did a letter to Santa as a writing exercise this week. Here’s the Lad’s, hot on the heels of the Great Smiley Conjunction:
LibrarianLazyWeb: Books of mythology from current dominant religions?
I’ve been poking around looking for books of the basic Bible stories and of stories including the basics from the other current prevalent world religions, but (a) told in a form suitable and engaging for a primary school kid who… Read More ›
Calling the hivemind: getting freebie stuff for your school
One of my kids’ schools desperately needs new/better sound amplification equipment in their auditorium. What they currently have is not only inadequate even if it was working properly (need at least another pair of speakers to fill the space acoustically),… Read More ›
Politicians still failing to grok technology
SMH: Laptops in schools will be antisocial The State Government will give 197,000 senior public high school students a mini laptop next year. It will have wireless but no access to Facebook and MySpace. The Minister for Education, Verity Firth,… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 