My obligatory math rant, though, is about alg2/trig/pre-calc.

Ugh, pre-calc/alg2. Most worthless math year of my life. There's just no freaking point to spending a year learning needlessly complicated ways of almost solving problems that calculus, a mere school year later, will solve in three or four beautifully elegant steps. No point, I say!

Good luck, Aimee. Sorry about the stomach eating.

And unless you're one of the ones who's wired to go on with it (in which case you're going to endure all the crap anyway), it falls at just the time where they say "you're done with your high school requirements, so you don't really need to do this any more (and we'll just do you a huge disservice by ignoring the fact that it's gonna really suck to try to pick this up again when you have to do it in college when you're a year or two out of practice, for the math, she is like a muscle that can atrophy), and, well, I guess you're just not a math person."

Thissssss....

There's just no freaking point to spending a year learning needlessly complicated ways of almost solving problems that calculus, a mere school year later, will solve in three or four beautifully elegant steps.

There's probably some point -- not that that makes any difference if they don't ever explain what the point is. Mind you, I don't actually remember algebra II and never took pre-calc -- what did you do in those classes?

This is actually somewhat important, as I have an interview tomorrow to teach trig, pre-calc, and calculus. And I'm totally panicking.

So Algebra II is the same all the way across the country? Weird, yet cool.

Cass!! Was that the first GA you saw?!

We have almost all of them still on the Tivo and, if only we could find a network connector, we would be able to burn them to DVD.

Stupid tivo network issues.

sarameg, sorry for the backage crashing.

if only we could find a network connector

Did you froogle? That's where I got mine--a refurb--for $19.

I should do that tonight because I'd like to transfer my Grey's Anatomy to somewhere else.

I got called out on wearing a red sweater to work. Someone said I was looking like a gangbanger. Right. In red chenille.

So Algebra II is the same all the way across the country?

Y'all had national exams. We have a very small number of textbook publishers trying to sell to Texas....

Edit: So, not national exams. But they have 'em somewhere, I swear!

Y'all had national exams.

Well, we had nationally available exams. One board was not like the others, and schools got to pick.

Huh. I was under the impression that they were more uniform than that. I shall edit.