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No way, whenever I help any friends I end up bringing things home.I thought you were offering a free spring cleaning service.
My windows beckon, but we can never reach far enough to clean the upper level windows. Ladder is too precarious, and a narrow space to set up in. Old terrace house courtyard. Reckon I peer out through years of accumulated dirt and dust. I need to pay one of those guys to abseil down from the roof and do it.
I used to write training manuals and the machine puts a plastic spine in the document.
I'm 20, what the heck is a binding machine!?
Make me feel old. I remember using them in Primarily School. They make Binders for Books
I thought the pen licence was really silly, especially when as you said kids use computers or IPads and do little writing.Oversaw the abolishment of the "pen license" too. - always hated that concept because I was completely sucky at handwriting when I was younger and could never get a "pen license" to be able to use a pen instead of greylead while most of the class ended up getting theirs (this was around grade 3 if I can remember)
And then people stopped giving a s**t and realized it was a shitty concept because it made children like me feel excluded, probably the only time where I feel like political correctness won out here!
I thought the pen licence was really silly, especially when as you said kids use computers or IPads and do little writing.
My grand-daughter had to have an iPad in year 5 and her spelling and writing deteriorated. Her mum and other parents complained and they are using it less now.
Oversaw the abolishment of the "pen license" too. - always hated that concept because I was completely sucky at handwriting when I was younger and could never get a "pen license" to be able to use a pen instead of greylead while most of the class ended up getting theirs (this was around grade 3 if I can remember)
And then people stopped giving a s**t and realized it was a shitty concept because it made children like me feel excluded, probably the only time where I feel like political correctness won out here!
We had Pen and Also Joining License at Primary School. Never got the Joining one but did get the Pen one. The last in the Class.
Had/Got Terrible Hand Writing
It's a shame this generation and future ones are never going to grow up with the things the past generations did. And I'm only 20 and saying that!
Things are constantly changing, I only stayed in school until year 10 but observed the abolishment of the chalkboard, the introduction of computers as common learning equipment (I remember back in my old Primary school days, going to the computer room was considered the best thing that could ever happen to you during a school day and they were all old clunkers filled with windows 2000.) - And then suddenly only a few years later every second classroom had a computer!, Then the transition from whiteboard into interactive whiteboard, the phasing out of textbooks in favour of online study, and then just before I left school in 2011 they were starting to phase out pen & paper, everyone was given a laptop. (these days the kids have iPads as young as 12!)
And that's only the stuff I can remember, I'm sure I also saw a lot of other things come and go in my short time in school too. And then your experience would have been different, Maggie's experience would have been even more different.
It's hard to process, I wonder what changes this generation will see. It disappoints me that younger people seem harder to talk to and less interested in social contact face to face these days. That's why I don't mind striking up a conversation with an older person, they're always keen to talk in the real world. Not this instant messaging stuff haha, right now it's going to be difficult for children to learn how to write as we go more and more digital and they don't teach proper penmanship in school, soon kids will not be able to speak at all, we'll just all text message! (May or may not happen, still possible)
I remember 1st hearing about the World Wide Web in Grade 5(1996)
I got a Laptop for School for School in Grade 6 but did not use it much in High School