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A Starter for 10

by Whaleoil on June 2, 2010

One of my loyal fans is in Year 10 (4th form). He has asked if I can help translate Pinko Teacher for him because….well you’ll see…he is baffled by the assignment. It is a Social Studies assignment.

Topic: Sustainability – Mining
Assessment Criteria:

Excellence: Identifies an environmental issue and records the evolution of an action plan. Plans action-making links to the issue identified. explores skills, people and decisions required to take action. Takes action where possible. reflects on whether the actions impact on the issue identified.

Merit: Identifies an environmental issue and records an action plan: Plans actions- making a link to the issue identified. Explores requirements needed to take action. Takes action where possible. Reflects on whether people are more aware of the issue.

Achieved: Identifies an environmental issue and records an action plan: Explores some requirements to take action. Takes action where possible. Reflects on environmental change

Please help a loyal Whale Oil Beef Hooked fan and submit your answers in the comments. let’s see if we can educate a pinko teacher in the merits of mining and gain and excellence mark for the loyal Year 10 reader. Personally I give him full marks to thinking laterally about looking for an answer.

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  • mikms

    the lad should contest the question if it is indeed a proper NCEA question as he is entitled to pick from a variety of different subject areas and if necessary get another independant teacher to set an internal assignment rather than bother with remotely considering this very bias question.

    I did a variation of it back in yr 11 which lead to a better mark and a damn sight better question!

    • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

      it is a internal year 10 question in the style of NCEA, and no it is not my son.

  • http://beehiveblogger.wordpress.com kiwiteen123

    That kid looks like he is onto it! ;)

  • mikms

    mining creates jobs…mining can create better eco-systems through soil fertilisation ( or worse)…mining comes in many shapes and forms, some very eco-friendly other economically friendly…the majority of people to take action in mining are call miners…they take lifts under ground or they use robots…
    :D

  • michaele

    From the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Episode 6:

    “High above me, the sun is shining away and doesn’t know what’s going to hit it. The environmentalists lobby, however, do know what’s going to hit it, and claim the concert will cause earthquakes, tidal waves, hurricanes, irreparable damage to the atmosphere, and all the usual things environmentalists usually go on about. But I’ve just had a report that a representative of Disaster Area [the band] met with the environmentalists this morning and had them all shot, so now nothing stands in the way of the concert going ahead this afternoon on this beautiful sunny day.”

  • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

    Johns, I am fast getting over your wag the finger pinko attitude, I have been tolerant so far but my patience is at an end. Now fuck off.

  • http://www.maurieo.com maurieo

    I worked in a Coal Mine during the Think Big Era I always remember a bumper sticker displayed in the deputies office “Ban Mining, Let the bastards freeze in the dark” It meets the criteria for excellece.

  • http://beehiveblogger.wordpress.com kiwiteen123

    I hate to but into the comments section on a post that has absolutely nothing to do with me but for the fact that I too am a teenager.
    Teenagers can think for themselves. You make Slater sound like some sort of weird pedophile because he talks to young people. Do you not?

    I seem to remember Slater telling you to fuck off and you accepting that decision?
    What changed in 3 minutes?

  • http://beehiveblogger.wordpress.com kiwiteen123

    If you are going to criticise my typos, I will criticise your’s “didnt” should be spelt “didn’t”.
    You are a hypocrite.
    Whaleoil:
    “Johns, I am fast getting over your wag the finger pinko attitude, I have been tolerant so far but my patience is at an end. Now fuck off.”
    Johns:
    “Thats ok blog owner extra­or­di­naire …”
    I stupidly, presumed that “Thats [sic] ok” Meant that it was, well, ‘ok’.

  • http://beehiveblogger.wordpress.com kiwiteen123

    Sorry Johns! Do you want to actually address the points I have raised?
    I don’t see why I need to get over myself. You obviously haven’t.
    Your patronising tone adds nothing to this debate.

  • P1LL

    @johns
    I suffer from depression and PTSD. the medication I am on has made me a fatty , probably 27KG over weight. Do not insult people that you know nothing about.I was an innocent victim of racism that shattered my life and led to my wife committing suicide. so as tough as you sound hiding behind your keyboard and Internet anonymity. think what your comments may lead to.
    stop being an ass and listen to a man who is expressing his views albeit views that you disagree with.

  • toby

    Johns, you are a weird creepy old man. You should really just fuck up.

  • oswaldbastable

    Mining- Tracks on D11 require lubrication.
    Excellence- Run over greenie schoolteacher.
    Merit- Tracks lubricated.
    Achieved- Two annoying squeeks eliminated.

  • P1LL

    @johns
    i see where you are coming from , but lighten up. your posts may end up making cam choose to end his life !
    People who know nothing about depression think it is bull shit , and say harden the fuck up ! unfortunately that is impossible because we are already at our limit of seeing what the world has thrown at us unfairly.
    I was like you until I had a brain injury, everyone who spoke up and had a different opinion to me was a waste of space. walk a mile in my / our shoes and brother you would change your tune !

  • grizz

    @Johns

    I think it is time to take your medications.

    Listen going back to the original question, We have a 14 year old boy who actually wants to go somewhere with his life and achieve something at school. However he is a little stuck because he disagrees with the views of his social studies teacher. He is concerned that this conflict will jeopardise his mark. Perhaps not the most appropriate of forum, but he does have the right to canvas people outside his parents as well. Good like to him.

    For my 2 cents worth, the damn question is wrong. There is no such thing as sustainable mining. Mining by its very nature is not sustainable. Once it is gone it does not come back. Otherwise it would be called farming!

  • cactuskate1

    JohnS that’s just silly. WO is nice to children, it’s adults who piss him off and you are now I would imagine very high on the mental man’s shit list.

    Recruiting children? Ergh….the teachers seem to be experts in that based on the assignment above.

  • http://whaleoil.gotcha.co.nz Whaleoil

    Johns, a word of advice.

    Put the cap back on the flagon, put the flagon in the cupboard, rinse out your old vegemite jar that you use for a glass so it doesn’t attract the ants, and go have a good lie down. In the morning you will probably need a couple of panadol for the headache.

  • salamanda

    How truly disappointing.

    When I read the intro to this thread I thought this ‘posed topic’ and ‘call for comment’ could quite possibly have the potential to be one of those rare and ‘golden’ moments such forums sometimes allow, where collective intelligence, wit, humour and talents all converge to organically produce something memorable…

    … but Johns was already here.

  • cadwallader

    You can’t expect pinko moron teachers to even perceive economic benefits let alone absorb them. Sadly the question doesn’t surprise me.

  • orange

    That’s not the assignment though? It’s just the assessment criteria, and no one pays any attention to that because, usually, it’s just the spew the Ministry forces the teachers to put in the info handout at the start of the year. As far as I know you are not meant to have that criteria anywhere near the actual assessment.

    I so hate NCEA.

  • cribble

    Excellence: strip mining prevents forest fires.

  • orange

    Just to clarify, the info posted above is neither an assignment or an exam question. It is an example topic that could be studied during the year. A topic is different from a question or project on a topic.

    Either the student is confused or the teacher is.

  • muhammad

    shouldnt a 14 year old kid be asking his parents first. Or are they pinkos?

    Just a question…