use Perl

• Skorts (Score:1)

  by pne (661)

  What's a skort? At first I thought they didn't know how to spell "skirt", but then I saw mention of "skirts" as well.

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  • Re:Skorts (Score:2)

    by hfb (74)

    It's 'skirt + short = skort [terrybicycles.com]'. I have a few pair of these and they are really nice for bicycling in and avoiding the completely dorky look of tights.
• Evolution (Score:1)

  by pudge (1)

  My problem is that, usually, evolution is taught as absolute fact and creation as myth. That's worse than teaching creationism and evolution on the same level, because you're teaching falsehoods (evolution as absolute fact) and closed-mindedness (creation as myth).
  
  What they really should do is teach evolution as the standard way of envisioning how this all happened, then add "but we aren't entirely sure" and "we don't know what caused it all to happen in the first place." You don't even have to mention
  • Re:Evolution (Score:2)

    by jdavidb (1361)

    That's about the most reasonable way I've ever heard of looking at it. Respect for alternative viewpoints. Cool.

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• gifted and disabled not excusive (Score:1)

  by jmm (276)

  Don't discount good support for disabled learning just because you have reasonable expectations of high achievement.
  
  My son is doubly identified, both as gifted and as learning disabled. There was testing to confirm the disabled classification a couple of years after he had been classified into the gifted program. The test, while he was in grade 5, rated his reading and understanding capability at a university level, while his writing was at a grade 2 level. (The double identification is somewhat rare,