Nick, I was responding to your assertion that you couldn't imagine why a parent would ever want to contact a child during school hours. Now you elaborate on that with "Well, how does this do any better than roll call?"
I think someone already addressed that point earlier, and I don't know what they're doing enough to debate it with you. I would say though, there's probably a little bit of psychology involved.
My point was that schools have an incredible responsibility: to look after children. In this litigious and incredibly paranoid and demanding world, if a parent comes looking for a kid, and that kid isn't in his/her seat learning, whose responsibility is it? Not the kid - he/she is a minor.
This hasn't been developed out of thin air. This was developed in response to a situation. Students in a lot of places have to produce photo ID to write exams, in order to prevent fraudulent test-writing (either by a friend or someone trying to make a buck). Essays are sold on the Internet. The response from the educational system is to tighten up security.
I've been in malls that have had cameras in their washrooms for years. In my high school (a number of years ago now), the second floor boys washroom had no doors on the toilets. There's privacy for you. The school could afford doors, but at some point in the past, they decided that it was preferable not to have doors on the toilets in that washroom. Loss of privacy is nothing new in schools.
The beauty in that link is not Gamespot's review of the game, but the reviews that players have made. There must have been a hyperbole competition. Pretty funny stuff.
Think about it, Joanna. They're silhouettes. They're not Rembrandts. If you can't draw a silhouette, you have someone lay down on the paper in the pose you want, and trace around their body. It's THAT simple.
Needing instructions seems a little like overkill.
And Nick, are you serious? People phone schools about their kids all the time. Schools have a huge responsibility to parents, and if one child goes missing, they will hear about it.
Here are three reasons for a parent to reach the school to find the child, off the top of my head: Suppose there's a family emergency, and the child has to be reached. Suppose the custodial parent is concerned about the non-custodial parent kidnapping their child. Suppose the child forgot to take his/her medicine to school that day.
The point is, Nick is gettin his back up about the whole loss of civil liberties, but the reason why we resort to harsh measures (harshness level debatable here), is because the current way of doing things is not working.
Not as bad as watching paint dry. I'd say more like stamp collecting.
The funny part was, instead of making it shorter to match its excitement level, it looks like he reused some footage a couple of times to stretch it out even more.
I think someone already addressed that point earlier, and I don't know what they're doing enough to debate it with you. I would say though, there's probably a little bit of psychology involved.
My point was that schools have an incredible responsibility: to look after children. In this litigious and incredibly paranoid and demanding world, if a parent comes looking for a kid, and that kid isn't in his/her seat learning, whose responsibility is it? Not the kid - he/she is a minor.
This hasn't been developed out of thin air. This was developed in response to a situation. Students in a lot of places have to produce photo ID to write exams, in order to prevent fraudulent test-writing (either by a friend or someone trying to make a buck). Essays are sold on the Internet. The response from the educational system is to tighten up security.
I've been in malls that have had cameras in their washrooms for years. In my high school (a number of years ago now), the second floor boys washroom had no doors on the toilets. There's privacy for you. The school could afford doors, but at some point in the past, they decided that it was preferable not to have doors on the toilets in that washroom. Loss of privacy is nothing new in schools.
It had a reason, but Miss Cellania deleted Ryan's offensive comment. So now it just looks like I don't know how to spell ignorance myself.
Miss C, if you want to delete my reply to Ryan's comment, you can. It's obviously causing confusion when read out of context.
Needing instructions seems a little like overkill.
Here are three reasons for a parent to reach the school to find the child, off the top of my head: Suppose there's a family emergency, and the child has to be reached. Suppose the custodial parent is concerned about the non-custodial parent kidnapping their child. Suppose the child forgot to take his/her medicine to school that day.
The point is, Nick is gettin his back up about the whole loss of civil liberties, but the reason why we resort to harsh measures (harshness level debatable here), is because the current way of doing things is not working.
It's more of a "we're watching you" note. Usually companies stay pretty quiet when they fire employees - less legal implications.
Not as bad as watching paint dry. I'd say more like stamp collecting.
The funny part was, instead of making it shorter to match its excitement level, it looks like he reused some footage a couple of times to stretch it out even more.
lol