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food for thought2
here's more to chew on.
town people vs. teachers
Sept 19, 2004
anyone who cares to discuss the economic reality of the town versus the teachers union are welcomed to do so here. bear in mind that the school budget currently comprises approximately between 50-55 % of the yearly fiscal amount of alotted funds.this annually makes them the largest target of criticism when financial problems are debated. they have summers off and wages that on average are the envy of many with less
earning power and benefits.easy prey because they can take the critcism.thick skinned and all.or not.one thing is certain, though.they are required to be educated in order to be accredited educators.that might be intimitating for some who can't seem to bear that ''UNION'' and
'EDUCATED' in this scenario means only
powerful. anyone with a comment,question or complaint can choose either to ask a teacher in person about their issue or they can tear the skin from their bones here.Anonymously,of course.i'll leave it to you.i'm sure the teachers would prefer the interaction. it beats the hell out of being backstabbed to death by an Anonymous assailant on a web site.
-By townie home owner
By townie home owner
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there's more to come
it's time to stick to the issue
Sept 26, 2004
let's try it again guys.the issue is Braintree town fiscal woes.nothing more nothing less.no pot shots.no meandering.focus on the problem at hand.if you feel the teachers are greedy,cool.let's talk about why.
if your itch is incompetence as it relates to both elected and non elected
town officials,I'm all ears.its obvious some are more informed than others.just trying to separate the fact from the fiction without the hurtful vindictiveness.i came here to find out what the boggle is all about.this painful process has been enlightening but incomplete.i urge you
to be fair and succinct so as not to offend,but to complete a productive
thread if you are prepared to participate expect to receive the same respect you give.i reserve the right,
random or otherwise,to stick to the thread and to ignore the insult.discuss
-By townie home owner
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Cyber Bullies Harm Children
Text message bullies harm children more
Experts say it leaves children with ''no place to hide'' and criticise the Government for failing to address the growing problem. A children's charity is calling for an urgent study into the extent of cyber-bullying in Britain.
Dr Marilyn Campbell, who led the research, said: ''With traditional bullying they can go home and escape, but with cyber bullying there is no getting away from it. Victims suffer worse consequences than those suffering at the hands of traditional bullies.''
Attacks usually take the form of abusive text or chat-room messages, but Dr Campbell's research even found children set up special website to bully others.
''Cyber-bullies are posting personal information about the victim on the internet while letting all their peers know the web address via email,'' said Dr Campbell, of the Queensland University of Technology. ''There is a feeling everybody in the peer group knows what's going on, whereas in face-to-face bullying it has only a small audience. There is also no way to retaliate.''
John Carr of children's charity NCH backed the findings but called for the Government to do more to address the problem.
''This confirms our worst fears about online bullying,'' he said.
''For many children who are suffering, the text messages are really the last straw and it affects them very badly.
''They feel there is just no escape from it but they are so proud of having a mobile phone in the first place they don't want to give it up.
''The problem is that the children see their phone as their prized possession and are incredibly scared that if they own up to being bullied through it, it will be taken away. The same is true of internet access.''
The NCH conducted a national study two years ago and found 30 per cent of children had suffered from cyber bullying, and 19 per cent of all schoolchildren have had bullying text messages.
But experts claim the huge rise in the number of children with mobile phones means these figures may have rocketed.
Mr Carr said: ''With traditional bullying you shut the bedroom door and it goes away. Now there is no escape.
''We have already had cases of British children committing suicide because of online bullying.
''We need a thorough study, and it has got to be the Government funding it.
'' When we released our research, the Government was very good, writing to every headteacher telling them to be aware of the problem.
''But online bullying often happens outside of school.''
The researchers studied an entire year of a primary school in Brisbane, Australia, giving more than 30 children a series of in-depth tests and interviews to establish their attitudes to cyber bullying
By Heda BeendraftedSoon
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Dying for the United Nations
Who would have expected the Washington Post to inflict real damage on John Kerry's faltering presidential campaign? Yet they have.
Here is the third paragraph from today's front-page article by Helen Dewar and Tom Ricks on Kerry's foreign policy record:
Kerry's belief in working with allies runs so deep that he has maintained that the loss of American life can be better justified if it occurs in the course of a mission with international support. In 1994, discussing the possibility of U.S. troops being killed in Bosnia, he said, ''If you mean dying in the course of the United Nations effort, yes, it is worth that. If you mean dying American troops unilaterally going in with some false presumption that we can affect the outcome, the answer is unequivocally no.''
When the Bush campaign talks about John Kerry's wanting a ''permission slip'' from the U.N., many commentators dismiss it as rhetorical excess. But Kerry really does believe that the United Nations is a fundamental, legitimizing body for the use of U.S. force. One hears this deference to the U.N. all the time in European capitals, but it is rare to hear it even among mainstream American liberals. In this respect, as in others, Kerry really is a throwback. He still shares the McGovernite distrust of U.S. force and suspicion of the judgments that are arrived at by the American body politic.
John Kerry is not a Clinton-Lieberman Democrat. His near obsession with gaining the approval of the U.N., and for that matter of France and Germany, for the conduct of U.S. foreign policy would make him the riskiest commander in chief of any presidential candidate since George McGovern--and surely makes Kerry unsuitable to govern in a post-9/11 world.
By Is This Guy Really An American
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