I think that every teacher in Australia (and beyond) has at least heard of the case of the student suing the Victorian school for failing to get her into Law. At what point are a student's results a school's responsibility? We are quick to claim our students' successes, but rarely their failures.
The common response is that student's need to take responsibility for their own actions, and in an example such as this one we can see a student who is either not doing this or unable to do this (she was disorganised, failed to complete set work and had discipline issues). But surely at some point the school should take steps to assist the student to rectify these problems, and if they don't is it then negligence? Unfortunately if the answer is yes then there are far too many negligent schools out there.
I have been getting a lot of my information about the world from the Global Mail website. The mobile site is easy to read on the iphone so I often read it when it is too busy to sit down on the train. Their article on Guilt by Google is an interesting one, and made me think about how quick we are to hit the phones whenever we need information (cinema times, weather, imdb details, restaurant reviews, wikipedia, etc). Jurors, separated from their phones, find it hard to resist the temptation. Is this a sign of things to come, will our future selves have phone separation anxiety issues?
Better news come from their article on The Pineapple Prescription. What a fantastic solution to such a devastating problem - fruit certainly costs a lot less than antibiotics.
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