Education
SO WE have dropped even further In the education stakes, with one country almost unknown of, rising in the ranks.
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Maybe we need less Gonski and more enthusiastic teachers for science and maths.
I still remember aspects of my science education in physics, biology and chemistry because the teachers made it interesting and told stories about why it was so.
We also had some 'bad' boys in the classes who loved to put hydro sulphide in the ink wells in the chemistry lab and made it stink to high heaven.
If we don't get our act together we will slide even further down the scale and all those Asian students we are hoping to attract to our university will go somewhere with far better education standards.
More money thrown at a problem isn't always the solution.
Glennis Sleurink, Launceston.
LGH
SOMETIMES we accept kindness without comment or acknowledgement.
Of recent date I have experienced a rather large operation and was a patient of the Launceston General Hospital 5B.
Combined with the seriousness of my condition and me being a sook, I was feeling very sorry for myself.
However the shining lights of my experience was kindness and caring attentiveness of the wonderful nurses of 5B.
Without doubt your professional and calming persona is a great experience, you are so obliging with a smiling delivery.
When experiencing the bottom of the barrel you lifted me to the top with understanding and compassion.
You seem only appreciated and noticed when you needed, but you are the beautiful people and deserve our ongoing thanks and acknowledgement.
To me you are angels and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
5B Nurses at the LGH take a well deserved bow.
Peter Doddy, Trevallyn.
Binge City
MORE Launceston drinkers are consuming alcohol to a risky level than anywhere else in the state (The Examiner, November 25). With new liquor outlets popping up all the time, that doesn’t surprise me.
Alcohol, Tobacco and other Drugs Council of Tasmania chief executive Debra Rabe said the spike was likely influenced by access to alcohol. So why is the government allowing this?
The State Alcohol and Drug Services operated a range of specialist services across the state.
With some of those services refusing to help homeless people who are more at risk, and some permitted to change your prescribed medication regime to suit their protocol rather than the patient’s needs.
A.R. Trounson, Needles.
Shopping centre checkouts
I empathise with Dick James comments on shopping centre checkout delays (The Examiner, November 29), whereby he walked out in disgust and left his trolley with the goods in it. I would suggest additionally to that a couple of five-litre containers of ice cream left upside down in the trolley.
Wally Reynolds, Perth.
Super trawler
IT’S BEEN good news locally and internationally in the last week or so. The super trawler Geelong Star has left Australian waters for the Northern Hemisphere and we all say 'don't come back and good riddance'.
Also I totally agree with president-elect Donald Trump, who didn't mix words when describing the death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro “he leaves a legacy of firing squads, theft, unimaginable suffering, poverty and the denial of fundamental human rights”. I say the world has one less tyrant and the Southern Hemisphere has one less super trawler; it's a good week.