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#1 OFFLINE   fireryone

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Posted 03 May 2007 - 11:05 AM

Australian Teachers Try To Shut Down Website {news from slashdot.com}

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DeathElk writes "New South Wales teachers are attempting to have a website based in the United States closed down due to "defamatory" content. The site in question encourages students to rate teachers at their school, which obviously results in some colorful content. Now the story has hit the media, with some insightful quotes such as "The president of the NSW Secondary Principals Council, Jim McAlpine, said the Federal Government should block access to 'scurrilous American websites'."

:lol: schools should take this as a free way to tell how well they are doing and improve appropriatly.

I think any 'colorful content' should be moderated though.
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Posted 03 May 2007 - 04:17 PM

View Postfireryone, on May 3 2007, 12:05 PM, said:

schools should take this as a free way to tell how well they are doing and improve appropriatly.

"Appropriately". Yours probably wouldn't fare too well. :lol:

Sorry fieryone, couldn't resist that one.

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Posted 04 May 2007 - 12:50 AM

View PostDennisD, on May 4 2007, 02:17 AM, said:

"Appropriately". Yours probably wouldn't fare too well. :lol:

Sorry fieryone, couldn't resist that one.

:lol: nice one :lol:

note to self: Make sure firefox spell checker is on, next time <_< (right click, click "spell check this field")
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Posted 04 May 2007 - 03:27 AM

View Postfireryone, on May 3 2007, 07:05 AM, said:

:lol: schools should take this as a free way to tell how well they are doing and improve appropriatly.

I agree. If only we'd had something like this when I was in school.

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I think any 'colorful content' should be moderated though.

Good call. Kids can get pretty, um, colorful...lol...these days. :lol:
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