If you have a child born this year here is the vision of the future for your newborn when they graduate or “leave” High School in 2030.

These “brilliant (NOT)” ideas are being brought to you by a so-called “think tank of scholars and education experts” this week in Waterloo and is being supported with YOUR tax dollars, so of course it must be true!

Here’s the vision……………..don’t separate students into “grades” or even force them to be “examined” throughout their “higher education” years so they don’t feel pressured with REAL LIFE trials and tribulations.

After all, with all the tech gadgets and computers able to do the work of critical thinking today, why burden young minds with mundane trivialities like adding, subtracting and spelling?

The future it seems will allow these unfettered graduates to build homes, repair vehicles, order materials, count money, or any other real life task without…

Cathy Young writes in the Sunday Dispatch:

The Dallas Morning News reports:

TakePart.com reports:

The Boston Herald reports:

Rodney Hide writes in the New Zealand Herald:

Battling wind weasels, like Acciona, in Court has its own “special” charm – just ask Richard Paltridge.

Dick won – his landmark planning case in South Australia, but his opponents – including the rotten little Rann, State Labor Government – pulled every slimy trick in the book along the way.

Acciona – the subject of Marshall Madigan’s REC Fraud round-up at Waubra – is more than happy to tip a bucket on the established rules of adversarial contest with a “win at all costs approach”.  Here’s the tale as told by Dick.

A case of BS.
By Richard Paltridge.

You may remember how in 2010/2011 I took the District Council of Grant in the SE of SA to the ERD court to have the decision of their Development Assessment Panel overturned.

Acciona took the decision to appendage themselves to the case, hoping no doubt to ensure their project at Allendale…

Frederick Forsyth writes in the Express:

Harry Eyres write in the FT: