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posted by martyb on Saturday November 17 2018, @10:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the Eye-Kant-Speek-Gud dept.

New Zealand has sunk to a new low in modern education. A number of high school students have started a petition to not be failed on a national history exam as they did not understand the meaning of the word 'trivial'. For those not in the know, trivial means "of little value or importance" which aptly describes this petition given that it is being made by grade 13 high school students who by all rights should know the meaning of this word. More than 2400 people have signed the petition 'expressing their frustration with the exam question'. Student Logan Stadnyk claimed that he was "lucky" to have known what the word meant, as half his class didn't. "New Zealand History Teachers' Association chairman Graeme Ball has sided with the students calling the exam a 'little bit of a snafu'" but not providing an adequate answer as to why students in grade 13 would not understand a common English word.

Have the three Rs lost all meaning in schools? Are we failing our students? Or is this just another case of today's teens being snowflakes?


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  • (Score: 2) by archfeld on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:57AM (2 children)

    by archfeld (4650) <treboreel@live.com> on Sunday November 18 2018, @01:57AM (#763304) Journal

    Tried that...
    About half the shops listed are out of business or don't answer the phone. The others that did answer were delivery ONLY, to a private residence. I was hoping that someone local would know of good source. Thanks anyways.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:36AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:36AM (#763405)

    Wow, a pot shop that went out of business??? Were they run by the government? Who are the only people who couldn't make money selling hookers and whiskey in Nevada when they took over the Mustang Ranch!

    Up here in the PNW (land of forests, lakes, mountains, rivers and four actual seasons..) I pass seven recreational pot stores on my way to work (10.2 miles). They are nearly as ubiquitous as espresso stands, of which I pass eleven.

    Hehehe, every day is an excuse for a sale as well. Weed, oil, wax and such are not only tested for purity (no chemicals allowed) and potency and packaged in nice, well lit stores with upwards of fifty strains of indica, sativa, and hybrids, but it's cheaper than the street prices were.
    The black market here is dead.
    Fucking win-win!

    Sample text from the Green Nugget today (Saturday)

    Vendor Day! Uncle Roaner in the house for vendor day! 30% off on Uncle Roaners buds all night long! 100mg candies for $17.50! 25% off all concentrates and cartridges! Open till 11:45 pm!

    Of course Lovely Buds, Satori, Cannabis and Glass along with Green Leaf and others all have daily sales, it's a weed tokin' paradise...

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  • (Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:38AM

    by Pslytely Psycho (1218) on Sunday November 18 2018, @07:38AM (#763407)

    Oh yeah, ALL of our stores are walk in.
    Some deliver too, but they are the minority and it's not free.

    Ya live on the wrong border for buds bud!

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