Ambiguously Gendered Revenge of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Jdvn1]

My Grandma's oldest sister was a schoolteacher a long time ago. And a friend of mine's mother was one until she got assaulted by some dumb kid who slammed the door into her arm...

Yow. Y'see, a lot of teachers are happy being teachers. I wanna teach and then I want to run a school, and then I want to run a school district. I'd be happy teaching throughout my career, but I don't want kids slamming doors on me...

 

[Jdvn1]

Math isn't too bad until you get into Calculus. I had the worst problem with that stuff after the easy first week or two of class.

IME, that's due to a poor teacher.

 

[Jdvn1]

Then she shouldn't have let her dumbass daughter plagarize to start with!

Why blame the parent when you can blame the system? Avoidance of responsibility is at the heart of American culture!

 

[Rystil Arden]

IME, that's due to a poor teacher.

Agreeed. Calculus is actually much much easier than the Algebra that is needed for Calculus.

 

[Jdvn1]

Ooooo.... must be nice to afford stuff like that..... :\

The top paid Superintendent in Texas gets in the vicinity of $350k. Which is scary because that's almost as much as the President of the United States ($400k) and is definitely more than the Vice-President ($200k or is it $220?).

 

[Jdvn1]

Agreeed. Calculus is actually much much easier than the Algebra that is needed for Calculus.

Now that I'm not sure of...

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Does that count as malpractice?

Not like you'd get anything since I don't get paid nor actually practice. I just seem to be the one people I know come to and vent their probs to.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Now that I'm not sure of...

Oh, definitely. If you look at where people lose the points on Calculus tests, its more often on the messy algebra, not understanding what derivatives and integrals are. Not to say that Calculus as trivial, merely that the algebra is harder.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Why blame the parent when you can blame the system? Avoidance of responsibility is at the heart of American culture!

That seems to be the sucky case in this country! People are too afraid to take responsibilty for anything. Their fav phrase being, "I didn't do it!!" or "He did it!" :\

 

[Darth K'Trava]

Oh, definitely. If you look at where people lose the points on Calculus tests, its more often on the messy algebra, not understanding what derivatives and integrals are. Not to say that Calculus as trivial, merely that the algebra is harder.

It's where it'd gotten more complex is where calculus lost me.