Let's all do a Spider Diagram
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,138
16 March 2017 11:46325099When I was teaching it was apparently very important not to let the thickos know that they were actually thick (as apparently it would damage their all important 'self esteem') - which is why there is a whole generation wandering around wondering why they are in a crap job on zero-hours contracts (CLUE - it's because they are thick and it's all they are worth paying).
To this end we used to do 'whole class' teaching with 'differentiation' and use brain storming (before that got renamed as it could be considered offensive to epileptics!). One would write the topic in the middle of the board and write down the kid's ideas around it, however idiotic they were, as one didn't want to appear 'judgemental' and as we all know many of us have other than academic talents which are equally valuable in an inclusive society. (Ha, bloody ha - I'm sure having the intellect of a small rock was useful years ago but it's 2017 and if you are not literate and numerate you are rather surplus to requirements).
It would appear that Dover Town Council have done much the same with their production of their Transport Policy Statement and gone for the brain storming (were they to have had one to storm) a mixture of cut-and-paste, stupid ideas and the bleedin' obvious!
'Tunnel from Eastern Docks to Whitfield/Shepherdswell (4 miles)'? Why not!
'Not to accept substandard repairs to pavements & Pedestrian areas'? Policy change?
'Introduce a free Tram/Land Train from the Cruise Terminal to Buckland Mill'? Even better than the 'cable car' proposal!
'All relevant signage needs to be clean, visible & free of foliage & pointing in the right direction if referring to a point of destination'? Point of destination? Is the writer's first language English? Or are they getting confused with the use of the term 'port of destination'?
The whole pathetic document is here for your perusal (pages 15 - 24). I can remember having stuff like this handed in, ripping it up, and telling the kid's to start all over again and to actually try 'thinking' about the topic rather than randomly coming up with phrases vaguely connected (and it wasn't when I was teaching at a Grammar School - just saying!)
https://dovertowncouncil.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/full-planning-agenda-13.3.17.pdfhoward mcsweeney1 likes this"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 16 March 2017 12:01325101I have to say that the word 'signage' really bothers me. Watching a TV programme a while back about modernising Gatwick Airport, and there was a whole episode dedicated to the new 'wayfinder signage'. I would probably call these things direction signs, but I don't suppose this fits in with modern management speak that seems to be so in vogue in these modern times.howard mcsweeney1 likes this
- Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,138
16 March 2017 12:11325102Believe it or not I am totally bilingual in EduBollocks and can converse with the best of them. Here's just a few of the ones I remember starting with A,B or C!
The trouble is I can no longer remember what most of them are meant to mean, but most educationalists I talk to don't either, and since neither wishes to show our ignorance, we tend to nod sagely and agree with whatever the latest fashionable orthodoxy is.
'anticipation guide',
'ADHD',
'bodily-kinesthetic intelligence',
'benchmarks',
'constructivism',
'criterion check',
'creative thinking'.
One of my favourite bits of new-speak is how anything to do with transport is now automatically labelled 'logistics'. (And before anyone starts I am well aware of the use of logistics within distribution networks).
I even followed one lorry the other day which told me that the firm was 'Passionate About Logistics' which I though was rather laying it on a bit!"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,706
16 March 2017 17:53325110As a man in the know Cap'n just wondered:
1. How one "dulled 5/6miles for Freight Only traffic"
2. How the potential for loss of more beach improved anything? re: Lorry Park on Samphire Hoe extension
Tunnel to Docks from A20/M20 (potential loss of Shakespeare Beach)
3. How one makes more of something when it is finite? Re: Make more of Pedestrian areas to make areas safer
4. How having more of something makes it safer? Re: Make more of Pedestrian areas to make areas
safer
5. Surely this is self evident as we are in the UK - "Pavements are pedestrian only" but the local wardens and constabulary do not apply thier existing powers...
6. If this is an objective "Pavements are Level & obstacle free (for visibility& mobility impaired friendly)" why have both councils presided over dotting our pavements with bins, signs, seats, planters etc etc?
7. Can i have one even though I do not have an appropriate licence? Re: Offer free town buses/small hoppers
8. Surely fares are a scheme for payment? Re: Introduce payment schemes & loyalty cards
to reduce fares
9. Clearly does not apply to local government. Re: Less is more effective
10. Ditto Re: to be written in plain English & easy to understand"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi - Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
16 March 2017 20:10325123Captain Haddock wrote:I can remember having stuff like this handed in, ripping it up, and telling the kid's to start all over again and to actually try 'thinking' about the topic rather than randomly coming up with phrases vaguely connected (and it wasn't when I was teaching at a Grammar School - just saying!)
Thankfully none of my students ever sullied my desk with such drivel, but it would have gone on the staff room notice board while I tried to get the student relocated to general studies!Arte et Marte - Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,061
18 March 2017 21:16325334I'm confused; what do any of these schemes have to do with maintaining allotments? In fact, why is DTC a statutory consultee if it's statutory role is that narrowly defined?(Not my real name.)