Socialised Healthcare

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

We never got homework when I was in primary school. We sometimes got a list of 10 words to learn to spell the next day. it wasn't a test, as such, more of a bit of fun. I also wanted my kids to be kids whilst at home. I helped them with homework, sometimes, but never did it for them.

I refuse to do it FOR them as the teacher doesn't want to know how good I am, I help them but if too many questions are asked (like every question on the sheet) I tell them to put what they think is the answer, otherwise how does the teacher know their ability ?

 

[chrissyjack]

I refuse to do it FOR them as the teacher doesn't want to know how good I am, I help them but if too many questions are asked (like every question on the sheet) I tell them to put what they think is the answer, otherwise how does the teacher know their ability ?

I was the same. Though once my lad brought home a maths equation the teacher had come up with, asking the class to work out and bring the answer the next day. I can't remember the whole thing, but somewhere it negated itself and there was NO possible answer because of it.I told my lad this and he told the teacher the next day. The teacher bollocked him for it. The school wanted to suspend him for arguing. I had to personally go to the school and see his head of year and show him how the equation was wrong. The year head spotted it, give him his due. The teacher then claimed it was intentional. To catch the pupils out. The lying get

 

[linglong]

I always sat down and chatted/looked at my lads school work(still do though they've started at uni but im a nosy get so that helps..) but not once did i ever do it for them,help them if they where stuck yes of ocurse but flat out do it for them no becuase its utterly self defeating in the end.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

I was the same. Though once my lad brought home a maths equation the teacher had come up with, asking the class to work out and bring the answer the next day. I can't remember the whole thing, but somewhere it negated itself and there was NO possible answer because of it.I told my lad this and he told the teacher the next day. The teacher bollocked him for it. The school wanted to suspend him for arguing. I had to personally go to the school and see his head of year and show him how the equation was wrong. The year head spotted it, give him his due. The teacher then claimed it was intentional. To catch the pupils out. The lying get

I wouldve insisted on an apology in front of the whole class if it was done in front of the class, if it was intentional then why was he bollocked ?
My daughter corrected a teacher when her name was pronounced wrong, and was given a bollocking for 'correcting an adult' I was down there like a shot to inform them that it was in fact the teacher who was being disrespectful and I would be informing my child to not answer in future if it was done again, as they are obviously not referring to her, and that under no circumstances should be punished if it happens as I will have told her to do that.
It was all caused by the teacher 'trying to be posh' with a manufactured accent.

 

[chicoazul]

BEASTS.

 

[chicoazul]

Another example of why people's health shouldn't be in the hands of corporations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18673220

 

[icburns]

I know that the universe doesn't revolve around the USA, but the United States Supreme Court just sided in favor of healthcare reform in a controversial (and in some ways surprising) 5-4 decision. The less sound members of the right wing have lost the plot and are calling out the Chief Justice.

I'm not looking to 'start' something here, but I wouldn't mind hearing a rebuttal/critique from someone with their head on right (in both senses of the word).

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Another example of why people's health shouldn't be in the hands of corporations.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18673220

The whole system needs a shakeup really. For a drug to make it to market now it needs to go through something like 5 years of trials, so it's a hugely expensive process even before the cost of discovering it in the first place. We're getting to the point where drugs need to make hundreds of millions in revenue just to break even, and they have to do this in the time it takes before the patent goes and copycats from India et al start making it for fractions of the cost.

I mean put yourself in the FDAs shoes. If they release a drug that's proved unsafe there's gonna be a right ****storm on their doorstep. If they fail a drug that would have gone on to help thousands, no one's going to know. That basic situation right there ensures that the system is gonna make innovations hard to come by, the approval process very long and very expensive, and therefore expensive for the customer too.

Lets face it, we've had plenty of instances here where NICE have rejected a drug that would have helped people because it was too expensive.

We're at a point in our history, what with computing getting ever cheaper, our genetic knowledge getting ever greater, that we should be getting personalised medicines etc. but the whole drug approval process isn't geared for niche drugs for us as individuals. It's setup for mass market blockbusters that treat us all the same.

The genome was mapped 12 years ago last month and I really don't think we've seen the progress from it that everyone had hoped.