My teacher today
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Nighthawk
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A sticky would be good, for all those people who join up to ask "is it true a tiger snake will follow you back home, stake out your house, climb in your bed to size you up, eat your children, burn the house to hide the evidence then grow legs and run away?"
No wait... that's politicians...
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At work I relocated a 2.5 m Carpet from one of the maintenance sheds to large bushland at the end of one of the carparks.A group of workmates,average IQ of the group 140,one was concerned about the release site 'but it might get in my car' my response 'I didn't give him your rego,so your safe'
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This is shown in DAs DVD 'In Cold Blood'
Ahh im feeling slightly sorry for the teacher, It's one thing to be wrong but then to adamantly stand behind it & get proven wrong must be embarrassing.
At the end of the day we all make mistakes i guess & if i had a dollar for every time i was wrong i'd have $1.50
At the end of the day we all make mistakes i guess & if i had a dollar for every time i was wrong i'd have $1.50
I don't know about you guys but I hate it when people assume/tell stories etc. And it often comes to the point where I'm spitting chips and I just want to nail the other person.......I might have anger issues or something but it kinda runs in my family that we tend not to tolerate BS
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Teachers are only human but she sounds like a young one. When I first began I tried to field every question thrown at me and make out I knew it all. Didn’t want to look like a dummy in front of the kids. And sometimes you dig a hole for yourself. It didn’t take too many years for me to change that attitude. The kids actually prefer you to be human. “I don’t know” is a perfectly acceptable answer, especially if you link it to “But I know how to find out. Would you like me to?”. Or “I was not aware of that. Best I check it out”.
Emilie, I am not condoning her behaviour. If you made it clear that you were referring only to the regurgitation when you said ours don’t do that, then she probably should have been prepared to listen further. It’s your call as to what is warranted and how you handle it. My only advice to you is that if generally speaking she is not a good teacher, I would be careful not to make an enemy of her. A good teacher won’t mind being corrected.
Like all trades, you get good and bad craftsmen. I will make the point that the vast majority of teachers I met and worked with were dedicated and did a good job. Just a few should have been doing anything else but. If you don’t have what it takes, kids will have no mercy and you don’t tend to last too long in the system – the public system at least. The ones who really tend to stuff up education are the beaucrats.
FURBALL!! In addition to Owl pellets, Raptors also produce pellets (cast). Komodo Dragons regurgitate fur, skin and large bones – particularly jaw bones and femurs.
Egg-eating specialists squeeze the egg into the bony internal protrusions of the spine (a bit like shoving your thumbs into one side of an egg) then squeeze the cracked egg, completely crushing it to remove the contents. When you live exclusively on eggs, the amount of calcium you would have to digest to pass it through would be huge. They don’t need any of the calcium in the shells as there is also calcium in the yolk for forming the offspring’s bones. So it would be a total waste of energy and digestive fluids to pass it through. Given the shell is solid and the contents liquid, they are readily separated, making regurgitation an easy and energy/resources efficient option.
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Emilie, I am not condoning her behaviour. If you made it clear that you were referring only to the regurgitation when you said ours don’t do that, then she probably should have been prepared to listen further. It’s your call as to what is warranted and how you handle it. My only advice to you is that if generally speaking she is not a good teacher, I would be careful not to make an enemy of her. A good teacher won’t mind being corrected.
Like all trades, you get good and bad craftsmen. I will make the point that the vast majority of teachers I met and worked with were dedicated and did a good job. Just a few should have been doing anything else but. If you don’t have what it takes, kids will have no mercy and you don’t tend to last too long in the system – the public system at least. The ones who really tend to stuff up education are the beaucrats.
FURBALL!! In addition to Owl pellets, Raptors also produce pellets (cast). Komodo Dragons regurgitate fur, skin and large bones – particularly jaw bones and femurs.
Egg-eating specialists squeeze the egg into the bony internal protrusions of the spine (a bit like shoving your thumbs into one side of an egg) then squeeze the cracked egg, completely crushing it to remove the contents. When you live exclusively on eggs, the amount of calcium you would have to digest to pass it through would be huge. They don’t need any of the calcium in the shells as there is also calcium in the yolk for forming the offspring’s bones. So it would be a total waste of energy and digestive fluids to pass it through. Given the shell is solid and the contents liquid, they are readily separated, making regurgitation an easy and energy/resources efficient option.
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waruikazi
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I'm never wrong. How do i manage that? In my classroom i ask the questions, i don't answer them!
Nighthawk
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Meh, just do what I do with my kids. Even if I think I know the answer I know it's never usually black and white. We look it up together. That way I'm showing them how to research for themselves as well, so when they get older they don't even have to ask me, instead they can come to me with random bits of info they've found out and share the joy of discovery for themselves.
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A little off topic but spot on Nighthawk. The ultimate aim is produce enquiring minds with a thirst for knowledge and understanding and the research, investigation and problem solving skills to find out for themselves. We ultimately want adults with a sound knowledge base but even more importantly the skills to learn for themselves and to adapt as their world changes. Adults that value learning.
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