TeacherZee
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We celebrate it secularly. It is about family and food and presents and just being.
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Places with Scandinavian heritage seem to embrace the "There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing" ethos.An umbrella is a an admission of defeat. You can't ride your bike with an umbrella. You can't play. Buy good rainwear and get on with your life. I've bike commuted multiple winters in Seattle. I went out most days in the Winter with a 1yo and a 3yo. You just adapt.Here in Minnesota you see the same thing with cold. People see folks wearing huge coats and hats and scarves and such when it is sunny and in the mid-20s and wonder aloud what they'll do once it really gets cold. My first grader in PS has recess if it is over 0f. DW bike commutes here unless the wind chill is under -10f. Weather is just something you deal with.This weather stoicism encourages some cultural skepticism towards others. Enjoy your umbrella, just plan to adapt if you become a local ;)
In my little corner of Scandinavia we tend not to use umbrellas because rain is more often than not accompanied by fairly high winds that turn your umbrellas inside out.
As to the asked question I would also go with PNW
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I think that is why she was calling them scare tactics, - they re just BS.
Thanks. this is the kind of day I am having. I probably didn't read properly.
*Memo to self...READ posts* :)
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I'll be grumpy with you...but I choose to be it in a room by myself because I really don't want to spend more time with people right now.
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I was actually talking about scare tactics such as death panels and horror stories about universal healthcare in other countries. However, it does seem that your ideal system would only be possible with unlimited funds. And a true universal healthcare system would be so fundamentally different from what we have now, that I don't think we can assume the parts you dislike would automatically carryover. Although I agree we are a long way from the mindset to get there.
I think there is a not insignificant portion of our population who thinks the government should stay out of healthcare and wants to contribute to the system only in proportion to what they will get from it, thus making it impossible to adequately fund a health delivery system that works for everyone. I also think many of the faults in our current system our driven by greed on the part of those who benefit from it and have the power and money to get the rules and laws that favor them.
Please link me a reputable source that shows a country with universal health care that has death panels.
Also, what horror stories are you talking about?
No one I knows has ever had to wait months for antibiotics and I've lived in three different universal health care countries. Most of the time I get seen the same day for urgent things. to have my non-serious moles removed I had to wait 6 weeks (I was having them removed because they kept catching on my bra, they were tested and were non-cancerous). A friend of mine had to wait 90+ days to see a very specific orthopedic surgeon, because of this she was able to go private and see the surgeon in his private hours. I have a private doctor paid for by the public. I was able to choose a doctor close to my place of work rather than close to where I live as this suits me better. My grandfather (age 84) called to get an appointment last week. His appointment was today. This was for a slightly elevated blood pressure. Not urgent.
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For those in countries with some form of universal healthcare, but at times long waits for treatment, I'm curios abiut the reasons. Doctor shortage? Only so much budgeted for care each year? Other? Thanks for helping me understand.
Waiting times are due to Doctor (or nurse) shortages. But like Laura said there is also a triage system. More urgent cases go higher up the list.
I've never had a problem seeing a doctor in an emergency. For less urgent things I've had to wait, but that has also meant that I could choose times that were more convenient for me.
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I have not come across this in my fb feed and I have plenty of friends in their 30s. What I do come across is a lot of frustration at societies expectation that everyone should settle down and have children. Some of my friends are childless by choice, others due to infertility, and some because they haven't found anyone to have children with and they don't want to "go it alone", all of them find it frustrating that people question their choice (or lack of if they don't know about the infertility).
I think those who are aggressively negative often feel that pressure and I will say that sometimes fb is difficult when you very much WANT children but can't have them. I find the excessive posting of pictures by some friends to be very difficult at times. The posting of how motherhood has completely fullfilled someone. How it is the best thing ever. It is hard.
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Oh I do need to read a bit wider. I thought I would this year but then with moving and a new job I ended up in the comfort read category (not feeling bad about that at all) but this will be good for me. I love A Walk In The Woods but I think I need to read more about non Europe and North America, or at least non-Western Europe.
More romance for me this week and another few re-read chapters of The Giver with my firsties.
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I read The Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way - 4 Stars - When it comes to Bill Bryson, I tend to prefer his travelogues. Although “The Mother Tongue†is not a travelogue, I enjoyed it greatly. It’s a fascinating and, as is usually the case with Bryson, entertaining account of evolution of the English language. I don’t consider myself a word or language nerd at all, yet I loved all the trivia, such as those that I’ve quoted below.
The only reason that I’m giving it 4 stars rather than 5 is that it’s a bit dated. It was written in 1990 before the internet age. I would simply love to see an updated version. All in all, this was a fun and informative read.
This is my favorite of Bill Bryson's books. (And, yes, I would definitely read an updated version!) I also enjoyed his Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States about American English.
Regards,
Kareni
You might also enjoy The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language by Melvyn Bragg (there is a tv series to go with it that you can watch on YouTube).
I am reading student essays (of varying quality), The Giver (re-read, my firsties are reading it, it is a bit to easy for them reading levelwise but the topic is good for discussing with them), and still firmly stuck in the romance genre and primarily reading M/M. The latest one was Not Just Friends by Jay Northcote which I enjoyed, I liked that it was set in the UK so the uni experience was more similar to my own than the usual US based ones.
Oh and hi, sorry for going AWOL. :)
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And after writing my reply I switched over to fb and found that one of my friends had posted this https://nathanielscottlake.wordpress.com/2015/11/08/why-merrychristmasstarbucks-is-everything-wrong-with-american-christianity/
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I was thinking about this earlier in the week, as we're studying Islam right now for history. What would a Muslim do if he or she lived up by the Arctic circle and Ramadan fell during a period when they had twenty-four hour daylight?
Here is what happens in Sweden where in the north the sun does not set in summer and does not rise in winter
And I'm upset we have the red cups already because I loved the fall cups this year with their adult colouring book/zentangle design and I wanted to see them longer.
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I'm not Mormon and this is another nail in the and I will never be coffin, but here the policy about not being able to live with parents who are LGBTQ would cause major problems for someone who would want to join (and we have a LOT of Mormon missionaries in this area). We have a SEVERE housing shortage in this area and it is getting worse every day. Not living with parents isn't an option for many, not because they are lazy or not ready to leave home, but because there are no places for them to live.
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Heat. I use wheatpillows or sauna. I do well with massage but I know others with fibro can't stand the touch so as others have said, .
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My nieces 5 and almost 3 by Christmas) will be getting craft supplies. They can sit and cut and glue and draw for hours so it is perfect.
I'm putting the boxes together myself so I will be getting them different things over the next few weeks.
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So it's not that there's necessarily a higher expected "need" for security, but that they're governed by a body that requires more than what the Swedish government requires?
Exactly. :)
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I'm curious about this. I assume international school means students from many countries. Does that make it seem more dangerous for the teachers or students? Why do you have different security than the local schools?
Sort of this. The school I teach at is primarily governed by the local school board and is in that sense a "regular" public school. However we share the building with our sister school which is a charter school*. It is grades 6-9 and it is accredited by the council of international schools (or something like that). They require a higher level of security than what is necessary in "normal" schools.An international school is generally a private school that caters to expats, including diplomats' children and the like.
Although we do have some diplomats in town they aren't really that many since it isn't the capital. Most of our students are Swedish who want an international focus, or who have lived abroad for large portions of their schooling. In the IB program we also have quite a few students whose parents work for some of the big companies in the city. We don't really have any high profile parents that warrant the higher security.
*Sweden doesn't really have private schools like Americans would understand the word. ALL schools are funded by public money and is subject to the national curriculum and the national inspectors of schools.
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school assaults are not only in america. just this morning there is one out of sweden of all places. the attacker used a sword, killed at least one teacher and one student and injured two students before the police shot him. (he's alive, and in hospital.)
and yes, other teachers and students were locking themselves in classrooms and cleaning cabinets.
Thank God he didn't have a gun. Actually, thank Swedish weapon laws.
Here in Sweden we are very grateful he did not have a gun. Shelter in place would have helped in this case, but the school did not have such a system.
The school I teach at has shelter in place drills, but we are one of very few schools in the country who does. We have more security measures in place than most school as we are an international school.
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The kids thought it was a Halloween prank at first. Next week is a school holiday so many schools are doing Halloween stuff this week.
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+1 and JACKPOT. It would be impossible to prevent all mass shootings, but society would benefit, IMHO, if a lot of very dangerous people were held in state mental hospitals, as they were when I was young. However, that is expensive and there were many patients who were abused and that is not "PC". For those reasons, it is unlikely that will be implemented again. Huge numbers of people with severe and very dangerous mental illness are on the street. That said, from what I saw on the TV news a few days ago, the Oregon shooter had no criminal record and no record of treatment for mental illness. The majority of people who have some kind of Mental Illness are not a danger to other people, but some are extremely dangerous. There are no simple solutions to complex issues.
ETA: RE: Weapons free towns. Take a look at the violent crime rate in Chicago. They have gun laws that make it difficult or impossible for law abiding people to own guns. Criminals do not pay any attention to laws, so they are heavily armed.
What exactly do you mean with the bolded? I am very confused because the way I read it you are saying that the abuse of mentally ill people is perfectly acceptable and those who are protesting against it are doing so with some sort of political agenda.
As to the rest of the discussion I will say post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Other countries have also dismantled their asylum system without having an increase in gun deaths.
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Grade 1: Reading and writing is fun. Learning is more fun when the texts are funny. Bad things happen. Fiction is fiction. Facts are facts. But sometimes pretending that fiction is fact is fun
Grade 2: If everyone wears purple moon boots you run the risk of going to lunch with two left boots. Sometimes grown ups make stupid decisions
Grade 3: Boys are cute. Sometimes you don't get what you want. Being responsible has its advantages.
Grade 4: Older kids make stupid choices that sometimes benefit you. Migraines suck. (Mostly this year was a MESS of hormones)
Grade 5: Being a girl sucks. Moving sucks. The countryside sucks. Librarians and libraries however, are awesome.
Grade 6: More suckage. But my teacher rocks. Also reading is great.
Grade 7: History is great. Everyone sucks. English teacher sucks most of all. Or maybe my parents. But no, my English teacher.
Grade 8: English teacher sucks even more. But I have friends. Being good stops giving you advantages, apparently being bad now gets you out of class while being good means you have to do more work. But I continue being good.
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She has a history book in immaculate condition...but it was published 10 years ago when Bush was still in office. LOL
And this right here is the biggest problem with text books. They are spendy and in some cases (like social sciences) they become outdated very fast. The true facts are no longer true :P :P
I'm usually very pro technology but although e-books can be updated I am not a fan of school books being e-books.
These two factors are what causes me to use handouts.
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Depends on what I am doing with them.
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Negin, I can,t remember where you are living at this time. America? Would Quebec City be cheaper for you than Europe? Not quite the same, I know, but perhaps better than nothing?
I love exploring Europe, too. I keep wanting to sail in Scandinavia. Or hike there. Where do you want to go next?
Oh come and sail and hike here!!!! It is truly beautiful!
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I teach at a public high school in Sweden and we have books for some subjects and handouts/online for some. It really depends on the teacher, the subject and the students. For maths we do have books. I don't have books for the course I am teaching while sitting here writing (the students are working on constructing surveys). The reason I don't have a book is because I teach at an International school but according to the Swedish curriculum and I haven't found a book in English for this course. I have to use a variety of different books and online material. Even for the courses where I have books I give out hand outs and such because even when the book is written for the specific course (IB) it doesn't have enough problems for the students to work etc.
In the past I have often found that text books bore the snott out of both me and my students after a while so I like to switch it up.
My students DO have homework.
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