I used to think the same, but kids are really much further ahead these days.

There’s a lot of variety of course. Even my two kids are totally different. The older one knew the entire alphabet and basic math before kindergarten (<4yo), while the second one was still catching up on that in 2.grade (8yo here). Their gross motor skills are opposite though, and the oldest might never catch up on that.

So, play is learning in one way or the other, but there’s no reason to hold back the children who are talented in one thing over the other. My oldest is being held back that way by the current curriculum. Starting school earlier might be a way of addressing this.

It’s really just a matter of task assignment between institutions. Anything pre-school (nursery and kindergarten) is focused on behaviour and play, while early school (gradually) introduces more abstract learning, which requires a different teaching by teachers with a different education. Strictly speaking, it’s a teachers problem, and there’s currently not much overlap, except for “backwards compatibility”, because schools do have employees who are educated in kindergarten levels, whereas kindergartens do not have school level teachers employed. By introducing school earlier, it is possible to widen this overlap while still allowing for kids to proceed in their own pace.

So, IMO, it makes sense, but yeah, it’d be dreadful to go to “school” for that many years. Coincidentally, kids also leave schools earlier. There’s no longer many kids in 10th grade, because almost everyone goes on to the following studies after 9th these days. (which is a completely different discussion…)

I hope this makes sense. British/American school system are wildly different, but at the end of it, the kids will be kids, no matter what box they fit into.

Yeah well, I think a lot of people can actually do that. It’s rough times for fartists.

It’s not an entirely lost (f)art. Jackass had a skit with a similar guy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukIHMUibMio

Doesn’t have to be a disability. Shutting up can be a full statement.

Perhaps it should be decided by a cognitive test instead of age. This is a dangerous road though, because a lot of people with cognitive disabilities can and should be allowed to vote for themselves.

Maybe the test could be made to test if a person understands what an election is and them being able to form their own opinion.

The main issue isn’t age, but rather that a lot of people vote for something that they think others expect them to vote for without ever forming an opinion of their own.

However those people should also be allowed to represent themselves, so I think all elections ought to have the option of voting for “shit, I don’t know, I have no idea what’s this is about”, and if that vote came over a certain threshold, then the election should be void and postponed for a week.

Guinness World Records made him famous. He’s also the only person from that book that I remember anything about.

I wonder why he decided to eat 15 shopping carts. Like, the point of it would be proven after, I don’t know, 7?

While I can believe that some of the men were of the impression that it was part of a roleplay of some sort if told so by the husband, the simple thing is that she did not consent. It’s rape.

There is no situation in which the decision of consent can be transferred to anyone else.

Fuckin space garbage is what it is.

Yes it was impressive that they landed a rocket again once, but the quantity of launches and satellites is doing nothing good for anyone. It should’ve been a stepping stone for better technology, but instead they’re just mining money. Privately owned space engineering is a disgrace to humanity.

Space engineering used to unite even the worst opponents as with the international space station, but now those institutions are underfunded, while billionaire space-musk can shoot his loads into the atmosphere without any regard to the rest of the worlds population living inside said sphere.

Tax the asshole already.

Speak No Evil is allegedly a hollywood remake with a stereotypical ending, whereas the original is more…uh… thought provoking.

The original director admitted that the Hollywood version is more suitable for an audience, but also declined the offer of directing it himself for the same reason.

Another similar naming convention in Danish is how a electric jumper/shunt (a deliberate short circuit) is called a louse. The singular form of lice.

Jeg har stået uden komfur, fordi vi har købt nyt og venter på at få tilsluttet den integrerede emhætte. Derfor har jeg kun lavet mad i ovn i snart en uge. Det er svært at komme udenom færdigretter, men det er da blevet bedre i løbet af ugen:

• Spiste kødboller i Ikea
• Færdigkøbt lasagne med hvidløgsflute
• Hotdogs på grillen
• Kyllingefilet i baconsvøb med ovnbagte rodfrugter og færdigkøbt sovs
• Fiskefileter med ovnbagte rodfrugter
• Ovnbagte frikadeller med flødekartofler og knorrs bearnaise lavet i microovn

Jeg er ved at løbe tør for ideer, så jeg satser på grillen i dag, hvis ikke elektrikeren har været der når jeg kommer hjem.

Edit: han havde været der, så jeg fik karrygryde med kogte ris for at teste kogepladen og emhætte.

Håbet er vel på at kunne ensrette og spare på administrative opgaver, hvilket absolut er tiltrængt.

I gamle dage var der en papirgang, som tog tid og gjorde det vanskeligt at administrere store områder centralt. Det kan gøres mere effektivt i dag.

Det er dog bekymrende at magten konsolideres, og jeg kan ikke se at det er blevet mere effektivt og hurtigt. Tværtimod er ansvarsområderne blevet så store at ingen har ansvaret for noget specifikt. Se bare historien om ejendomsskat, hvor “systemet” får skylden for de åbenlyse forkerte regninger. Staten er åbenbart for stor en enhed til at kunne håndtere enkeltsager. Det samme kan ske på regionernes ansvarsområder.

Jeg synes det er fint at få samlede systemer, men nogle beslutninger burde lægges endnu mere ud til de lokale kommuner.

Regionene har ansvaret for sygehusene, nogle institutioner, miljø og transport. Miljø giver fint mening at samle, mens sygehuse nok burde være mere lokale. I beslutning og ansvar forstås.

Men det er bare min mening. Jeg vil gerne være med til at miljø er demokratisk bestemt over én kam, så enkelte kommuner ikke sviner det hele til, omvendt vil jeg gerne være fri for at skulle tage stilling til antallet af ambulancer i et område jeg ikke bor i.

I can hear it and am not American.

Try snubbing your nose while saying"those people"

Schools are now also transforming 17 year olds to 18 year olds.

Never used it. Never missed it. Never lost touch.

Anything that ever happened on that site worthy of being called “being in touch” has always been and always will be reported elsewhere too if its actually worthwhile. I see more more of it than I want to anyway. Even this post.

You can quit it today and not miss out on anything.

Aner det ikke. Det er nok bare kotume at prisen på skoler er mere forskellig. Kommunen kan ikke anvise børn til private tilbud, men det offentlige tilskud er det samme uanset. Jeg ved egentlig ikke hvor mange rent private børnehaver der findes. Det er ofte selvejende institutioner, altså uden en privat ejer.

Privat skoler opkræver normalt mere fra forældrene og burde derfor have større indkomst, men det er altså kun en del af økonomien i det. Deres lokale- og løn- omkostninger kan sagtens være højere, og det er altså slet ikke sikkert at de ekstra penge bliver brugt i selve ydelsen.

Det offentlige er sådan set meget mere firkantet på godt og ondt.

Det er vist kun privatskoler som gør sådan. Øvrige institutioner er takstbestemte og må tage de borgere som de bliver tilbudt gennem anvisning.

Det er jo ikke en krigstrussel, men opfordringen til prepping fodrer frygten for at det bliver nødvendigt, hvilket er Putins mål: Ikke at true, men at lade os tro at vi skal frygte en trussel.

Vores forsyningssikkerhed har aldrig været mere stabile end nu.

Hvis lorten rammer viften, så nytter det alligevel intet at have tre dåser makrel og en vanddunk. Det kan du alligevel plyndre i den nærmeste Rema eller hos din nabo.

Ok, now I’m not a linguist and also not English, but in my opinion there’s a difference. “People” is a broad undefined group. “Persons” is a more defined group.

Adding “those” in front also alienates them further. So by saying “those people”, you are distancing yourself from them, despite them being your family. That is the amusing part for the person you talked to. You mildly insulted your family.

In a similar vain, “some people say” all the stuff that you won’t to be heard saying yourself, even if it’s your own opinion.

Or in some places (this might be more local) using "you"or even “one” instead of “me” when answering personal questions. For instance if someone asks: “How does it make you feel?” and answered: “It makes you feel sad” then the person answering it is distancing themselves from their own answer by literally answering on behalf on some unknown “you” when they should be using “me”. Using “people” is sort of the same just on behalf of someone else.

Private institutioner og offentlige institutioner får som udgangspunkt de samme ressourcer. Pengene følger barnet, så indtægten for institutionerne er den samme for de samme børn.

Forskellen er de rigide krav til offentlige institutioner og alle de overhead omkostninger som ligger i at have en høj hierarkisk struktur. Altså, chefen for chefen for chefen for chefen skal også betales fra de samme midler.

Dér kan private institutioner spare på omkostningerne, fordi de har fladere struktur og færre krav at leve op til. De har tilgengæld profit, som også er penge der forsvinder opad.

Jeg vil ikke entydigt sige at private institutioner har bedre ressourceudnyttelse, men de har muligheden for det. Jeg føler dog en vis sikkerhed i at de offentlige institutioner er omfattet af flere krav, og at disse også bliver kontrolleret.

Personalemæssigt er det heller ikke så ringe endda under det offentlige. Der er ofte gode muligheder for at få uddannelse og avancere, hvilket kan være vanskeligt i en privat institution. Omvendt så favner det offentlige desværre også bunden af tønden, fordi det er sværere for dem at komme af med dårlige ansatte, som ville få sparket i en privat institution.

Den helt store synder er altså den offentlige administration, som desværre er nødvendig når alt og alle har deres demokratiske ret til at bestemme over hvad de foretager sig i det offentlige.