On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 15:23, C. Falconer wrote:
> > Nick said
> >
> >> Yuri said
> >> So, what's my prize?
> >
> > a pass in NCEA problem solving?
>
> What really sucks is that theres a three-credit unit standard at level one
> for "sitting quietly", another two credits for "listening to a speaker" and
> another three credits for "asking relevant questions of a speaker"
>
> But this is drifting rapidly off topic again..
Well yes but as a parent who has just been billed $75 for a these credits, I'm 
hopping mad about that particular bunch of THEMs being allowed to perpetrate 
this kind of fraud, because fraud is what it is.

I hope the next government of the day manages to imbue a degree of 
responsibility and professionalism into the State schooling system.

-- 
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell

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