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Tabitha, I taught in Montreal schools. While doing so, I came to know some of my old teachers. In fact, one became VP of a school I taught in. We often discussed these things. It was looser when I was teaching, but into the 1950s boys and girls were normally separated starting in grade 8 - the age of sexuality. It was done in Montreal, in Britain. It was very common, and there was no secret about why it was so. Montreal High and Girls High were in the same building, but with an internal design that separated boys and girls. There was a national report in Britain in 1842 that included education. It was the Beveridge Report and it was quite specific in stating that puberty was the reason for the division between elementary school and high school.

And in the large, elementary school I attended, there were two school yards, one for boys and one for girls - and it was death to enter the wrong one. This was even though the boys' yard was huge with space for the whole school, while the girls' yard was far too small.

There's a reason why we have elementary schools and high schools. The division between the two was in reaction to the age of puberty. In a related reason, women dominated in elementary school teaching and, until the last sixty years or so, men dominated in high school teaching and in administration. That was because of the higher intellectual qualities of men. (seriously). that's also why women historically got lower pay than men. In fact, when i began teaching, I got 2700 a year. A woman with the same qualifications got 2300.

The old way were good ways.
 
Luce NDs, a teacherly point of correction. Light brigade, in the context you use it, should be singular. There was only one light brigade in that charge. Once a teacher, always a teacher. People love me for it.
 
Considering that fact that it started snowing late this morning here today, continued all day, and is still snowing (on my grass it looks like we got about 4 or so inches of snow and in places the roads are treacherous) I think I should get to be LAST til it all melts.
 
BethAnne said:
@Mendalla I use Publisher too.

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I wondered. It's not the best, pro-grade DTP out there but it works well and is easy to use. My church started off using Word, which can do many things but layout is not one of them. I summarily changed them to Publisher and they are still using it (the office took over the newsletter after I stopped doing it).
 
Redbaron, it should be obvious to you to see that BethAnne does not want to answer you question about why she bought the paper. I shall tell you to spare embarassment for her. She bought it because it was about to publish an unpleasant story about her, a story that her reputation would never survive in uptight and parochial Alberta.
To keep this private between you and and me, I shall write it backwards.
Ehs ecno dednetta a tsitpaB ecivres.
 
Publisher works for my needs - I have tried others but they have more features than I need and aren't as easy to use when you're in a hurry.

@Redbaron I didn't buy it, it was given to me. Christmas of 2001 I finished a contract with our Regional Library and 9/11 had suspended my application for the MLS program so I went to the owner (a good friend) and asked if she needed help as I'd have time on my hands as I'd only be working 2 days/week at the library. She handed it over lock, stock and barrel - found out a few months later she was dying of lung cancer and that's why she was quitting everything. January 2002 was my first issue and I found out I was accepted to the MLS program and my first online class started in days! It was a busy month. While it wasn't something I originally thought I wanted to do, it is definitely something that is a good fit for me.

@Graeme Decarie It was worse than that - in Central AB they want you to attend Baptist services. ;)
 
BethAnne said:
Publisher works for my needs - I have tried others but they have more features than I need and aren't as easy to use when you're in a hurry.

@Redbaron I didn't buy it, it was given to me. Christmas of 2001 I finished a contract with our Regional Library and 9/11 had suspended my application for the MLS program so I went to the owner (a good friend) and asked if she needed help as I'd have time on my hands as I'd only be working 2 days/week at the library. She handed it over lock, stock and barrel - found out a few months later she was dying of lung cancer and that's why she was quitting everything. January 2002 was my first issue and I found out I was accepted to the MLS program and my first online class started in days! It was a busy month. While it wasn't something I originally thought I wanted to do, it is definitely something that is a good fit for me.

@Graeme Decarie It was worse than that - in Central AB they want you to attend Baptist services. ;)
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That's great, BethAnne, that you are carrying it on for her - that you were able to, and you enjoy it.
 
It's been a challenge through the years, and is the only thing I kept in the past 2 years when I cut everything else out of my life.
 
It's a Beaulieu Mother's Day Sunday hère in Torontois. Follain an excellente Church service, and lunch at m'y favorite chicken conglomérats, I am prepared for an Earl ma nap.
 
Graeme Decarie said:
Luce NDs, a teacherly point of correction. Light brigade, in the context you use it, should be singular. There was only one light brigade in that charge. Once a teacher, always a teacher. People love me for it.
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Is brigade collective, or in the terms of Lord Rutherford, something that comes from everywhere all the time as a fractal singular thing as soul ... sort of socialists ... and perhaps why some people shy away from it?

Then what would I know as a member of a flawed collective of humanity where some parts are isolated due to religious persecution because of not being dull as the authority would like them to be. Assists in the wool pulling and the shutting out of a flood of light ... a missing brigade?
 
none of the above. Size of a brigade varies a good deal. But at full strength it is usually 3,000 to 5,000 men, and commanded by a brigadier general. At the "Charge of the Light Brigade" the total strength was very low at 673, close to the size of a regiment. The poem is a glorification of an act that was really a piece of arrant stupidity. In the British army of those days, and at late as the 1920s, the sons of aristocrats who were too stupid to become diplomats or governors were placed as officers in the army - usually in the "better sort" of units socially such as the light brigade. From there, they rose to high command - which helps to explain the poor leadership of the Royal Army in WW1, In fact, it sometimes happened even in WW2 - as with the father of Prince Phillip, a man of no great brain who planned the Dieppe Raid, commanded the British in India, and became admiral of the fleet.
 
Can you imagine that beaming bunch coming down the vale ... what the scot calls a pipe ... or perhaps a tunnel with a spark in the end .'ve it?
 
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