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Patrick:
My dad always tests positive for the TB skin test whenever he does his biannual physical exam so that the FAA knows he's healthy enough to still hold his private pilot's license (I swear to god that is the only reason he lives a healthy lifestyle at all). He always skin-tests positive, because his brother had TB as a kid, and they shared a room with bunk beds. But the chest x-rays have never once grounded him. Always freaks him out though, he remembers what it was like for Fred.
nekowafer:
A large percentage of the physicians I work with test positive all the time. Many grew up outside of the US, few actually had the disease at any point. They bitch and whine about getting a chest x-ray though. Admittedly they are radiologists, so they have to deal with a lot of radiation exposure, but still. I think an x-ray has one of the lowest doses of any radiological scan.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 10 Jun 2011, 06:09 ---You mentioned paperwork - what paperwork were you required to do? Here, providing you haven't ever sent your child to school before, you don't have to do any paperwork at all. The baby is born, they register it, the health checks are done as usual, so the government knows the child exists, but there's no requirement to register your choice to home educate.
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Here children are obliged to go to school starting from the Fall of the year of their seventh birthday and ending after the Spring of the year of their 16th birthday. The kid is assigned to the school of the district you happen to live in, but reasonable changes to that are fine, if for example the district border happens to split a newly built neighborhood, and all the other kids in the area would be going to a different school, or for some such reason. After the early years some choices on the curriculum are made, and based on your child's elective, a switch to another school may be needed (and relatively common, but somewhat taxing). Anyway, the law gives the obligation to educate a child for nine years. If this is to be done outside of the official system, then there is paperwork to be done, and a degree of control as to the quality of the education is exercised. Sorry, I'm not quite familiar with all the details, since I wasn't worried about the quality of the curriculum in our case. The local school provided the textbooks and such.
Barmymoo:
Hmm - it sounds a reasonable system in terms of which school the children go to (the ridiculous farce we have here is getting worse every year, parents have to enter a kind of lottery for local schools and often take the council to court if they don't get the one they want) but it sounds unnecessarily complicated to home educate. Maybe your schools are better though. Actually, no maybe about it, I think that's an accepted fact from what I remember.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 11 Jun 2011, 01:46 ---Maybe your schools are better though. Actually, no maybe about it, I think that's an accepted fact from what I remember.
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I don't know about that. They get the three Rs about right, but a few decades ago our ministry of education was infiltrated by people with bright educational theories and beliefs that math has been taught wrong for the last couple of centuries. Consequently nowadays the beginning students in a math (or engineering) program in a college are complete strangers to logical thinking, proofs and such. The system has been going downhill for some time, and it is beginning to show. In spite of all the university level math departments crying in despair these psychoeducational geniuses have the gall to point out some international tests, where our kids do well. It's just that those tests are about basic arithmetic, reading pie charts and such. No real math... Did I say that these geniuses also idolize the East German educational system (but won't take note of the fact that over there they actually taught some real math to the kids)?
Sorry, this one hit a nerve.
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