ChrisB
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I suggest they take that one suppositively.
A Doctorate in Judicial Science? In the States, the Juris Doctor is equivalent to the Bacihelor of Law,
with various specialty Master degrees such as taxation tossed in the sheepskin fold. I'd enjoy an online SJD program.
Gotta wonder what effect online schooling will have on the mating rituals of juvenalus americanus.
Not a PhD / LLD, no - an LLM we run (Master of Laws). The set-up for law is different in the UK: here, Law is available as an undergraduate, thee-year primary degree (LLB). The LLM is a further, one-year programme in a specialist field of law typically. We don't as of yet offer full distance learning on a PhD programme. As things sit, there are research courses and so on that students must undertake in their first year, though thereafter as long as the supervisor is happy they are meeting regularly.... I had a PhD student a few years ago who flew in from Israel every so often to meetings, but did all her main writing at home. There have been discussions about a distance PhD for some time, though I suspect we'll see it come up more favourably soon, given that the last year has proven much to be possible that was previously written off. The main issue is always going to be ensuring the individual did the wok themselves, but that's the case with everything other than putting them in an exam room.
We do have a sort-of equivalent of the JD; it's known as a Senior Status programme, a sort of top-up on top of another undergraduate degree. Students on that one take the key elements of a law degree over two years (with a heavier workload during those years, even if they take fewer credits overall). It's a much smaller programme, though, given the availability here of law as a primary undergraduate degree programme; mostly the students have taken their undergrad degree elsewhere and want to switch to law, English law in particular (often they are US or Canadian students who want to stay in the UK to practice after they finish).
... that adjustment may be required for the proportion thereof that do so for religious reasons if significantly different.
May I ask the name of institution?
The reasons were largely if not entirely religious in the case of the few homeschoolers of my acquaintance, with the exception of one parent whose motive appeared to be his own sense of superiority. It was fortunate for his kid that the vanity project was short-lived.
I knew one “parent” (an aunt, really, who was raising her flaky sister’s daughters) who sent her kids to Catholic schools because she strongly objected to the sex-ed curriculum in the public schools (and, I suspect, because the public schools were just too colorful for her). She also had a real hangup about gayness, and really, sex in general. She was much more comfortable with all that being a sin. Served her right that one of those girls turned out to be one of those girls.
My catholic school was brutal in it's use of corporal punishment, but for academic teaching it really raised the barre. When I was fourteen I spent a year in hospital recovering from a hit and run collision, one of the priests, a head of department as he was known, would read up on my course work, come to the hospital and teach me, one to one. After my recovery I was offered a return to school but had to drop a year to catch up.There was a lot I didn't enjoy about my own school experience --especially the cliques and the drama -- but I'm glad I didn't grow up being spoon-fed a highly-selective understanding of the world.
My catholic school was brutal in it's use of corporal punishment, but for academic teaching it really raised the barre.
Catholic schools did go in for dogma, but then again, it was the same in their churches and debate was not on the agenda.
Those last three responses more or less underline the reason why catholic churches no longer pack them in. Being taught that God is love and getting that message across with a metaphoric strop/cane/wooden paddle does give out mixed messages. As far as the Vincentian Fathers of my former school are concerned, we are all going to hell in a hand cart. Talk about, "And lead us not into temptation." No need, I know a short cut.
Those last three responses more or less underline the reason why catholic churches no longer pack them in. Being taught that God is love and getting that message across with a metaphoric strop/cane/wooden paddle does give out mixed messages. As far as the Vincentian Fathers of my former school are concerned, we are all going to hell in a hand cart. Talk about, "And lead us not into temptation." No need, I know a short cut.
I remember one of the Chaplains at university - a Presbyterian, no less - who used to endlessly bemoan the "you'll go to hell" line of the fire and brimstone set. Surely, he reasoned, the best way to get people interested would have been a few choice lines from Song of Solomon and a 'want to know more?' .
It's probably best that corporal punishment had been phased out by the time I started attending school. I wasn't a bruiser, but I was taught from a young age to stand up for myself against bullies and that "if somebody hits you, you hit 'em back, twice as hard!" I was also always taught that respect should be earned, not expected.Those last three responses more or less underline the reason why catholic churches no longer pack them in. Being taught that God is love and getting that message across with a metaphoric strop/cane/wooden paddle does give out mixed messages. As far as the Vincentian Fathers of my former school are concerned, we are all going to hell in a hand cart. Talk about, "And lead us not into temptation." No need, I know a short cut.
It's probably best that corporate punishment had been phased out by the time I started attending school. I wasn't a bruiser, but I was taught from a young age to stand up for myself against bullies and that "if somebody hits you, you hit 'em back, twice as hard!" I was also always taught that respect should be earned, not expected.
Forget detention, I probably would have ended up in juvenile hall.