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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Mythbusters was all about blowing something up! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345786#p345786 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment forgot, Mythbusters also often had confounding variables (things that should've been controlled in the experiment, and could affect the results) but weren't. For example, they were comparing whether it was more fuel

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment a little off topic here but I'll let you know having studied a lot of history in college and even having a degree in it, a lot of even the discovery channel and BBC stuff is actually garbage. Most of those documentaries

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Orko,Thumbs up!  if only more people had enough common sense to see it as such! URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345772#p345772 ___ Audiogames-reflector

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @nocturnusI never watched Super Size Me even though I knew of it because when I looked up the reviews of it, it was often called a mockumentary instead of a documentary.Documentaries are my favorite types of shows to watch

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Orko,Sadly, I believe it goes beyond the frivelous lawsuits  you and I, and others, no doubt,   detest!  the movie super size me comes to mind as the perfect example outside of the court system.  In case you're

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @shotgunshell I honestly don't know what they were thinking. Perhaps they thought that by angering us we'd push him to coming forward. My parents were having none of it either which helped my case alot. URL: http

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @shotgunshell I honestly don't know what they were thinking. Perhaps they thought that buy angering us we'd push him to coming forward. My parents were having none of it either which helped my case alot. URL: http

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment That's why the trust between the kid and the parent is so important, and if you break that, as the kid, you can't easily get it back. I was a pretty good kid, but in 5th grade, the second time through, when everyone

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I had a pretty good public school experience, and my O teacher actually was big on that I should NOT go to a school for the blind and my VI teacher was extremely good too. The two were somewhat controlling

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment oh wait, confused secondary school with post-secondary school. Post-secondary is what we call college. Even so my secondary school was really good and college was indeed heavenly. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @nocturnusTell me about it! Do you remember the woman who stopped at a McDonald's to get her morning coffee as she always did every morning, then proceeded to drive and fix her coffee at the same time, and ended up

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Dark I'm all to familiar with the emotional manipulation you're talking about, because I experienced it first hand. I was locked in class rooms, and I was locked in basements. Your situation is pretty close to mine. I

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Nocturnus, yes, that is the general problem, society can only deal with people in categories, so forces people to behave in those categories and then complains when people don't fit. Bottom line, society is an arse hole

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I can agree  with Nocturnus points, especially having seen kids myself are a general risk to everything just by existing. That being said, the problem with many braille jails (love that phrase btw), is that rules

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Well, I know not how we can achieve this, but I do know this. From now on, I urge all of you to record everything that happens and use that as evidence against them. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Dark I'm not exactly sure if I asked you this already, but how come you never tried to directly challenge the authority's demands. Speaking from experience, when you challenge these people, it makes them want to deal

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Like I said in post 8, I sincerely hate it'; I had to live it at one point.  Even in the mainstream system it follows you around, particularly when you're younger, you have so-called VI teachers and O and M instructors

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment bI can agree  with Nocturnus points, especially having seen kids myself are a general risk to everything just by existing. That being said, the problem with many braille jails (love that phrase btw), is that rules

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @Jeffb Do you remember what the teachers were trying to accomplish by acting that way? Seems to me like they knew who did it and were just trying to start shit. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=345618

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment The school I went to for high school has been known for making up its own rules. During my last year or 2 of high school we got this nice new bathroom with automatic paper towel dispensers and so on. So someone goes

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Reality is the way reality is.  If you dont' push for common sense there's trivial lawsuits.  If trivial lawsuits win common sense goes right out the window and people are making out with money that doesn't realistically

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment before writing this reply, I had a good think. here are my thoughts on the matter, from all 4 sides. first, my own side. if I allow you to touch my equipment, that means I trust you, and by all means, you're free to do so

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment maybe, either way, the only people I think should consider working for schools are masacists because that's the only way stress isn't going to kill you in thos jobs.I'm reminded of a Mark Twaine quote from all of this:In

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment But, couldn't you argue on the other side that some of these rules could impose problems, and you would have lawsuits on both sides? You say that schools have these rules because of fears of lawsuits, when something else

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment @FamilyMario Ah the makes sense. Still though, it was my cell phone, they should have asked me if I gave you permission to use it. BTW, for future reference, you are allowed to touch most of my stuff minus the stuff

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment i do go to a boarding school for the blind myself, and they have a hole lot of rules i don't agree with. however, like a few people have said already, a lot of the rules are just in place so the school doesn't get

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment That's why I advocate for legal resources that people with disabilities should have access to. While I don't think advertising is encouraged on the forum, I work as an associate of Legal Shield. It is these kind

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment That's why I advocate for legal resources that people with disabilities should have access to. While I don't think advertising is encouraged on the forum, I work as an associate of Legal Shield. It is these kind

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment

Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment most of what I'm going to say is just beating a dead horse from what others have said but I'm going to say it anyway.1. it depends who bought your tech and how it is being paid for. I remember a person I heard of could

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I can see both sides of this, and good points have been raised all round, especially Nocturnus. I can also see why, even if it is your device that you own legally, and paid in full, why they would want to keep people off

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment first thing's first; I'd like to clarify that I'm not here to start a riot or even a dispute, that I do sympathise with everything that's been said on this topic, and that before I became a parent, I probably would have

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I guess that would depend on whether you purchased the device out of pocket, or if a voc rehab agency bought it for you, or whatnot. But if the school loaned you the device, then that's a whole different story. URL: http

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Ahh, here we go again with their overprotection. They've got it all wrong, your stuff is your own, and you have full control over it. Now if it was the school's own device, I could understand, that's a bit more reasonable

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment Hi.@shotgunshell Actually, let me correct you on some things. I first heard about that rule back in 2014 when you left your phone on the desk while I was talking to someone on Skype, since you went to go do something

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I agree with you, it is your stuff so you should always have the final word on who you'll allow to use it and who you don't want to touch it, and what you want should be respected and honored. URL: http

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I am not sure about class, a friend and myself used to share stuff outside of classes in the library, someone did touch my stuff and monkeyed with it and got told off but that was basically it.I think you should be allowed

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Re: Should Teachers Determine Who's Allowed To Touch Your Equipment I would have contacted a lawyer about it. I wouldn't take that crap from anyone, no matter how old or young I was. The belief is that the more prohibitions are set, the more people are going to be daring in defying