Last weeks of school

First day back from a so called 2 week holiday, which I really hated. I hated even more than usual. Over the 2 week holiday I worked for Data #3, for RTSS (Rio Tinto Shared Services) at BSL (Boyne Smelters Limited) for a much large pay than you typical KFC shift. Which is why my blogging rate has declined. It was nice working, compared to the usual grind of school.

The thought of how annoying school is compared to the work force killed me the whole time, although the day wasn’t all that bad. For school I have an English assignment that requires reading a biography about a person and then using that info to create a radio broadcast like clip. I’ve decided to do Richard Stallman, which is the creator of GPL and GNU and stuffes. His Bio is awesome so far and loving it, half way through chapter three and can’t wait to read the rest.

I suggest you have a read and check out his driving force to defeat closed source operations.You can get it here It’s a really good read and it’s released under GPL so you can download it for free :>.

In other news I got a Nvidia 8600GT graphics card, which I’ve put in my dads computer so I can play these new games, that my Macbooks Intel GPU couldn’t cope with. This calls for a LAN party to test it out, which will occur this weekend. We have aircon in the house now, so keeping the rooms cool will be easy now.

Swam in the pool today for the first time this season with a few of my mates. It was good fun and a good cool down. I expect it to get very hot this year.

Over and out.

Teachers Rights

Today (well at time of writing 22/5/08), I was walking with a group home during a flex off period, and we came across a sports class that conducts scenic walking as a sport. The teacher stopped us like he was a police officer in authority (personally I was going to keep on walking, as I thought it was a joke and if it wasn’t it’s out his rights to stop us. But nearly everyone else in the group stopped so I thought I would conform) and got use to show ID, so he could determine if we were in Grade 12 (The only grade that can get variation at the time). Now as far as I know, we had been let out of school and weren’t under the control of the school and teachers have no right to stop students. If we were waging we would be placed in the brilliant absent system and so on so forth.

Should teachers be able to stop students and check if they should be in school? I think not, your thoughts would be appreciated.