He Touched Us All
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"watch out boys, it's a read tie day" meaning he would be caning people.
...spellaring? Or is there some euphemism I don't get here involving reading and caning?
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ngrams suggests there's a 0.00000000000 conditional probability, that he meant "read tie", given that he meant either.
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They had five teachers arrested for sexual assault, and three more alleged to be molesters?
Yikes. Either getting a teacher canned is Australian students' national sport, or someone really needs to revise their hiring policy...
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someone really needs to revise their hiring policy
Right, that would be a nice screening question you'll get totally sincere answers without making anyone want to run away.
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To be a teacher in the UK, you need to pass a background check before being allowed to work with children; if Australia doesn't have something similar, I'd be extremely surprised. And not willing to raise little hedgehoglets in Australia.
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I can't see background checks helping much. I don't think they're hiring people already convicted, are they?
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Welcome to three days ago?
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Huh?
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Sorry, two days ago
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Look, no one cares about the cool places you hang out on the internet, @blakeyrat.
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It's not just to be a teacher, and as @boomzilla eluded to - it does only get people who have already been caught.
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This is why private schools are superior to public schools, right?
Anyway, yes there are background checks. In my state, a Working with Vulnerable People check is required for many jobs. If you work or volunteer with kids (school, scouts, child care, camps, etc), elderly people, victims of crime, refugees, disabled people, if you're a cop or paramedic, bus driver, lots more, you need this check. I'm not sure that it really reduces risk over a police check, I think it's a very expensive CYA exercise.
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This is why private schools are superior to public schools, right?
…I never said anything about public vs. private, only that background checks are needed if you want to work with children.
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This is why private schools are superior to public schools, right?
Fun fact.
In the UK, some private fee-charging schools are called public schools.
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I never said anything about public vs. private
No you didn't, that was just an aside. Some prominent Australian politicians have made comments along those lines recently. The evidence doesn't support their assertions, but that's nothing new.
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Fun fact.
In the UK, some private fee-charging schools are called public schools.The first "public schools" were ones that any child could attend (if they paid up), instead of the prevailing practice of rich types hiring a governess to teach just their own children.
Our equivalent of US public schools are state schools
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A few more threads of this and nobody will bat an eye when I proclaim that being a teacher makes you a pedophile.
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being a teacher makes you a pedophile.
I thought that was already so for catholic priests?
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I thought that was already so for catholic priests?
You're confusing 'making some into' with 'job requirement'
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being a teacher makes you a pedophile
And autism is a direct cause of Jenny McCarthy
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A few more threads of this and nobody will bat an eye when I proclaim that being a teacher makes you a pedophile.
A blogger I follow has been noting a few stories about this. The first few google hits:
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They always talk about these things like they're criminal, but I wish I had a teacher like this when I was a teenager.
Is that wrong?
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Only if you were homeschooled.
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being a teacher makes you a pedophile.
I think it's the other way around...
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>New Braunfels, Texas, is a rapidly growing community near I-35, about 30 miles from San Antonio and 45 minutes from Autism.
I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So... yes. OK.
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Fun fact.
In the UK, some private fee-charging schools are called public schools.Same case in India also. Everywhere the empire went, they took their language with them and also their habits.
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A few more threads of this and nobody will bat an eye when I proclaim that being a teacher makes you a pedophile.
I think you don't know what that word means. Maybe you meant "pedagogue"?
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Maybe you meant "pedagogue"?
I can't see how that would make sense. Did you forget what this thread was about?
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I can't see how that would make sense.
Oh, come on, I know you're smart enough to know what those words mean, or at least smart enough to look them up.
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I thought you were hoping for the British(?) paedophile spelling...
Whooshfence - I know what pedagogue means, yes. But I didn't connect it to the joke as quickly as I connected the spelling thing.
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paeaeaeaeaeaeaeadophile?
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I thought you were hoping for the British(?) paedophile spelling...
It would be nice if people spelled words correctly, but that was not the point of my joke.
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Oh, come on, I know you're smart enough to know what those words mean, or at least smart enough to look them up.
FWIW, I got the joke. It wasn't very funny though. Maybe a turn of phrase like that would kill in the UK?
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FWIW, I got the joke.
I'm pretty sure @boomzilla did too.
It wasn't very funny though.
No, it wasn't really. But it was a twofer because the first part is literally true: I think @CreatedToDislikeThis doesn't know what the word paedophile means. @boomzilla is pretending he doesn't know either and even provided a list of news articles that were all not about paedophilia.
Here's a hint: A paedophile isn't interested in high school boys. Pedobear says: Too Old.
Maybe a turn of phrase like that would kill in the UK?
If I ever visit maybe I can try it. It's not likely that an appropriate situation would come up though.
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Hmm.. Isn't that one of those "identifying distinctions"?
Perhaps self-identifying distinction would've been more clear, but eh. I don't want to make reading my posts too easy.
(Also, I'm starting to think that this is - maybe just maybe - not a respectful line of questions (or comments. or anything else), so I'll drop it.) <insert dunce smiley here>
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Hmm.. Isn't that one of those "identifying distinctions"?
It's a distinction. I don't know what it identifies.
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ephebophile?
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@boomzilla is pretending he doesn't know either and even provided a list of news articles that were all not about paedophilia.
I guess I am teh whoosh, then. I'm lost. I didn't get the joke at all.
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Oh, come on, I know you're smart enough to know what those words mean, or at least smart enough to look them up.
Um...yeah. I know what a pedagogue is. I don't see why what you said would be a joke.
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I know what a pedagogue is. I don't see why what you said would be a joke.
@CreatedToDislikeThis tried to equate teachers to paedophiles after a string of news articles with nothing to do with paedophilia. I suggested another word that sounds like it might be similar that actually is a synonym for teacher.
Okay, so now the joke, which wasn't very good to begin with, is thoroughly dead.
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Okay, so now the joke, which wasn't very good to begin with, is thoroughly dead.
Just like the British empire?
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Our pediatrician is a pedantic pedagogue? :torches_and_pitchforks.m:
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Just like the British empire?
The Pitcairn Islands are particularly appropriate to this thread.
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The Pitcairn Islands are particularly appropriate to this thread.
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