RDA rules, OK?

Brendan Nelson is at it again, interfering with the States’ education policies and practice without an excuse me or anything. He is also mooting paying teachers by their results. How would this work? Some children will not learn very much by virtue of their abilities. No-one will want to have these specific learning disability children in their class, or disruptive children, or autistic children and so on. You can’t do this. A far better policy would be to raise the score for Uni entrance above idiot level. In some Scandinavian countries you have to have the highest qualifications and it is at least a 5 year course.
Also on the education front, two ‘ex-convicts’ are saying they are being discriminated against by the Education Department as they have been refused permission to work at schools, painting. After all the hooha there has been about keeping children safe, and duty of care, how can they expect their past to be ignored. I know that they have paid their debt to society, but children are too precious to risk for someone’s hurt feelings.
On the knitting front, although I am actually doing the back, I have only 16 rows to go and I am up to the big cast off of 54 stitches for the underarm. 6 cm more and I am onto the actual front. It is very warm knitting and keeps the legs toasty in the evenings!!!
I might take the socks with me tonight if I can find where I have put the pattern safely away!!! I bought the teeny tiny needles and I have to do 12 cm of rib so I don’t actually need the pattern as yet. I must go and look for some wool to match my new light green jeans. I have mostly lime and olive and khaki so I need a soft green colour to make a cardigan or jumper. I am undecided as to what I should knit. I should finish my other cardigan first and then I can make a shirt to match.
Today is the first real nippy morning. I wore my gloves, there was ice on the car and a big frost at the dam : there was a white frost on all the grass and moss. The Labradors didn’t care and romped happily. I saw on the S&B site that someone had put a link to the Kath and Kim bonnet, and they noted a mistake. There are a couple of doozies and I emailed the ABC but the haven’t fixed them. I think it has you decreasing all one row, making the bonnet tiny. It is very cute., I have one pompom to make and it is finished too.
I am off to ACMA’s and we are going to watch Stargate:Atlantis ( It is weird that we are seeing RDA and Daniel Jackson with their start of the last season haircuts!!!) and then we have The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones to watch before Thursday when we go to see Revenge of the Sith. What a long commitment this has been on my part : from start to finish I have been following these movies. The pins of the characters from the Mercury are so excellent. I have 7 now, with 8 to go!!! They are the sort of badge from your childhood where if you tilt it you see another image and they alternate.
Right, since ACMA will be going straight home after school and I must have a nap if I am going to be able to go out, I must away!!