tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post7408732411044715049..comments2023-10-22T18:25:39.688+08:00Comments on The View from Taiwan: Get 'em young, train 'em right: dope testing for schoolchildren in TaichungMichael Turtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17974403961870976346noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-16677702446098038342013-06-27T14:24:06.518+08:002013-06-27T14:24:06.518+08:00On a different note, as the mother of a child with...On a different note, as the mother of a child with special needs, I'm concerned how this will affect kids that have special needs. Particularly those who may be high-functioning and move into Taichung. Will they then need to be drug tested because they are different. There are also several mental illness that first manifest themselves in the later teenage years. This may cause students to act differently. Instead of getting them mental health treatment, we drug test them. That is so useful.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-36215233409832141142013-06-27T06:14:40.533+08:002013-06-27T06:14:40.533+08:00For years, a major private high school down south ...For years, a major private high school down south has been testing the urine of all its students at regular intervals. It's one of their selling points - keep the kids out of trouble,Steven Crookhttp://crooksteven.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-53095852860976852012013-06-22T13:00:13.455+08:002013-06-22T13:00:13.455+08:00I'm not getting paid to sit here with the big ...I'm not getting paid to sit here with the big crayon and colour in all the different types of homeschooling options for you James. Do your own reading.<br /><br />I'll just point out that cramming all kinds of different children into one building with one curriculum is <i>obviously</i> at odds with the "enormous range of ways in which children learn". Failure has an "enormous range" too.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-187524903049331702013-06-22T11:41:49.952+08:002013-06-22T11:41:49.952+08:00The same is happening on the roads. Motorists are ...The same is happening on the roads. Motorists are being encouraged with cash bonuses to make traffic cases for the police. The cops get more time to sit on their asses and do nothing while Joe Citizen brings them the cases on a plate.<br />Do we want to live in a society where our neighbors are turning us in for trivial offenses just for a small amount of cash? This is only going to worsen the mindset where all strangers are enemies and only close friends and family can be trusted or treated cordially.lesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-21630829842798726972013-06-21T12:08:19.607+08:002013-06-21T12:08:19.607+08:00Disgraceful.The ratting stuff is spot on. When my ...Disgraceful.The ratting stuff is spot on. When my son came from school the first week and told me about the monitor system where someone is appointed to be chief grass each week,writing down the names of people he sees talking or what-not, I was disgusted. Thankfully, he's a good lad and said he didn't generally write anyone's name on the board. Trouble is, id teacher sees your not hitting your snitch quota ...<br /><br />As for you, MF, god you don't half spout some codswallop. The problem is, it's often sandwiched in between half truths (the slavery of the menial tasks). School (everywhere) is far from perfect, but the idea that the Internet will in all cases just magically function as some self-learning tool without some basic organised system of learning (at least during the early, formative years) is just silly. For many families, full-time home schooling is simply not an option. <br /><br />It betrays a telling lack of insight into the enormous range of ways in which children learn and how what might be suited to solitary genius Michael Fagan may not be best for others. <br /><br />It also totally ignores the socialisation aspect, which - if anything - is the most important part of learning in a school environment. <br /><br />Could you outline what your conception of self-learning with books and the Internet from, say, age five would entail, without an adult there to guide you javascript:void(0)for a good portion of the time?Jameshttp://thewritingbaron.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10698887.post-32206588836372969342013-06-20T00:05:47.832+08:002013-06-20T00:05:47.832+08:00Yes, that's why everyone knows that State cont...Yes, that's why everyone knows that State control of education is a good thing. Right? <br /><br />Come on, man.<br /><br />With the advent of the web, and the ever increasing availability of information and ever decreasing costs of transmission, there really is no legitimate economic reason for <i>schools</i> anymore. Their purpose as instruments of socio-political control is now completely transparent. It couldn't be more obvious: they actually still practice a form of part-time <i>slavery</i> in forcing the students into stupid, menial cleaning tasks instead of hiring women from the Phillipines or Vietnam. <br /><br />The sooner that sending your children to school is recognized as the child abuse that it is, the better.Mike Faganhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08745281285031316740noreply@blogger.com