Re: Ping J Larkin

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Joerg" <notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:8qY8k.14676$Ri.13672@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If a parochial school refused a kid based on potential special ed or other issues they would violate one of the most basic commandments of the bible.

Well, here's some news for you: I was kicked out of a parochial school in 1st grade.

In the first two weeks.


That can happen, they have high expectations in terms of discipline and IMHO they should ;-)


:-)

I was then enrolled in public school, and while I was definitely a rather, um, "difficult" kid to handle at times, no one ever came *close* to suggesting I should be kicked out there. They found a teacher who could "deal" with me, and over time I came to like and respect the guy (Bob Schmidt was his name), even though early on the man would have to literally sit on me, hold me in a corner with my arm twisted behind my back (with me trying out every obscenity I knew at the time on the guy!), and otherwise forcibly restrain me from running after other kids, damaging property, or whatever. I spent four years with the guy, and he played a very large part in turning me from a rather unruly child into a (reasonably :-) ) well-behaved, functioning member of society.


I had my comeuppance early on in elementary school. Kissed a girl -> long ruler -> *WHAM*. It hurt but I learned a lesson. Still remember her name though. Tried unruliness once more by calling a teacher a nickname he hated. Back to the classroom -> long ruler -> *TWHACK*. Ouch! That did it.


I doubt similar results could have come out of any parochial schools. My mother went to parochial high school and absolutely hated it -- she would even "protest" as much as a high school student could in the '50s: One one exam something like 10% of your grade was just putting your name on the test, and feeling that this was an absolutely stupid policy she purposely omitted her own, hoping that the teacher would realize that just "giving away" grades like that (possibly in some bizarre interpretation of "God loves everyone?") wasn't doing the students any good.


That is weird. The schools in Germany didn't give any points for a name.


The teacher was not englightened. Or even amused.

I expect her high school experience helped to set her up for becoming a (then quite typical) protest-oriented college student of the '60s. This was in Madison, Wisconsin, though, where to get elected to public office it almost seemed requisite to have been arrested for disorderly conduct or disobeying police -- Paul Soglin was mayor there for a number of years, and had previously been arrested several times overs during college protests.

I'm not at all knowledgable on European civil history, but I suspect that German students largely missed out on the "fun" in the '60s? :-)


Oh, we had the riots alright. Unfortunately police even shot one student who then died.


Well, in one family we know quite well all four are adopted and one has serious issues. Yet they would never think of giving up. All four are being home schooled.

In general the public school system can't expect to the average teacher to have nearly the level of skills or commitment that the sort of person you're describing here has. (This is true in pretty much any profession -- I suspect that one of the reasons you get so much work is because the "average engineer" today is not all that horribly commited to their vocation, you know? Especially compared to 20+ years ago.)


Well, take tenure away and some thing might change ...


Travel is always billed at half rate. Pure travel time from A to B, not time spent at hotels and such when a flight was missed.

That's a very client-friendly policy.


My father did the same. It's kind of a 50:50 split. During travel I often can't work so I recoup half of the lost income. When flying and working on another client's project I charge that client and not bill that part of the travel time to the other. Saves them some more.

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