Can we maybe vote on the whole murdering people issue?

Wash ,'Serenity'


What Happens in Natter 35 Stays in Natter 35  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Emily - May 16, 2005 8:30:49 am PDT #4467 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola

So, months and months ago I bought a game from MSN's games site. Paid with a credit card, got the game, boom. All set.

I'm signing into Hotmail today, and it tells me that the credit card I have on file with them is about to expire and I should update it. Um, excuse me? No. One payment, one time. This makes me nervous.


sarameg - May 16, 2005 8:31:35 am PDT #4468 of 10001

Good!

I honestly don't know what it is like at my hs anymore. I know my history teacher got state teacher of the year in the past five years (as he should!) but most of the politics of curricula I hear about is from my mom, so it is elementary level. And it can be really insane depending on the principal. There are some who would interpret guidelines as strictly as possible, leaving teachers no room to do anything but what is on the page.


erikaj - May 16, 2005 8:33:15 am PDT #4469 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!

"Three Men and Adena" is truly a classic, Nilly. I still can't get over how it makes me hope for a different ending every time, even as much as I've seen it. I think I feel about Baltimore the way Ed felt about NY.


Nilly - May 16, 2005 8:33:16 am PDT #4470 of 10001
Swouncing

they were innovative and really worked on teaching you not just the materials, but how to think critically.

On 11th grade, IIRC, a teacher yelled at a friend of mine because she dared offering an interpretation to a poem that she had come up with herself and wasn't what the teacher had taught the minute before. In most lessons, this was the norm. The tests were "write up what you were told in class", no critical thought whatsoever.


Topic!Cindy - May 16, 2005 8:33:42 am PDT #4471 of 10001
What is even happening?

I'm signing into Hotmail today, and it tells me that the credit card I have on file with them is about to expire and I should update it. Um, excuse me? No. One payment, one time. This makes me nervous.
Did it pop up like an error message or did you get an email saying this? It could be a phishing thing, Emily. Ignore it, and maybe even send it (with your information deleted) to Hotmail. Don't hit reply to the email you received. Forward it, with an address you get from the hotmail site and type into the address bar, yourself.


Jesse - May 16, 2005 8:34:39 am PDT #4472 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

The funny thing is that it was especially true for the AP classes, which are designed to end in a test!

My AP US history teacher was great. She did a whole week on the Civil War that started off with her telling us there would likely be not a single question on the test on it, but that no one should think they've taken a class in US history if they didn't know at least the basics of the Civil War.


Connie Neil - May 16, 2005 8:35:21 am PDT #4473 of 10001
brillig

The things one learns about in the LoC catalog. There's a bee pest (ie, thing inimical to bees) called the American Foul Brood. As opposed to the European Foul Brood.

I think I have the monster for my next fic.


§ ita § - May 16, 2005 8:36:00 am PDT #4474 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This is why our state tests (in English) are geared toward skills instead of content

Our curricula was pretty strictly defined -- the school picked an overseeing organisation, taught to their curriculum for two years, and then we got to take tests. At least two per subject.

I liked it. Worked for me.


sarameg - May 16, 2005 8:36:52 am PDT #4475 of 10001

On 11th grade, IIRC, a teacher yelled at a friend of mine because she dared offering an interpretation to a poem that she had come up with herself and wasn't what the teacher had taught the minute before. In most lessons, this was the norm.

Oh, I had one of those (for two years of english, uhg.) But we all knew she was crazy and way too suceptible to brown-nosers, so she really didn't have much power to stunt us.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 16, 2005 8:39:39 am PDT #4476 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

If anyone makes a movie version of Will Eisner's latest (posthumously published) book and doesn't cast Nicholas Brendon, they got some 'splainin' to do.