Y'all had national exams.
Well, we had nationally available exams. One board was not like the others, and schools got to pick.
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 40: The Nice One
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.
§ ita § - Nov 29, 2005 2:47:49 pm PST #7832 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
amych - Nov 29, 2005 2:49:46 pm PST #7833 of 10006
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Huh. I was under the impression that they were more uniform than that. I shall edit.
-t - Nov 29, 2005 2:56:12 pm PST #7834 of 10006
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I never took pre-calc either. Or observed it or anything. I have no idea what it's for.
When I was in 7th grade, my mat teacher marked me down for my homework being messy. A couple of weeks into the semester, we all took this test that somehow determined if we were ready for algebra class. Fortunately, I was. I bet if I hadn't changed classes at that point, I'd have ended up hating math instead of getting a BS in it, because that first class was clearly not going to be about learning anything.
Theodosia - Nov 29, 2005 2:56:45 pm PST #7835 of 10006
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I really enjoyed my high school mathematics classes and got straight As in Algebra 1, Geometry and Algebra 2. Alas, they didn't offer a senior calculus class, only one called Computer Math where you got to take turns programming Snoopy posters printed out on wide printer paper (programmed by very low baud modem over a telephone line). And the teacher was notoriously sexist, and this was in the 70s, so all the girls I know who'd taken it were very bitter about how they were treated.
I took an extra art class instead.
You would think, with that much enjoyment of math and also science, some high school counselor might have recommended I look into engineering or programming or any hard sciences. Instead I wifted off to take English literature, and it was only years later that I blundered into programming on my own....
Jessica - Nov 29, 2005 2:59:16 pm PST #7836 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Mind you, I don't actually remember algebra II and never took pre-calc -- what did you do in those classes?
I don't remember the methods we used, just that every single problem was accompanied by the teacher saying, "Now, next year, in calculus, you'll learn an easier way to do this..." Maybe if I hadn't been constantly told that, yes, we were deliberately doing things the long boring way, I wouldn't have noticed or minded so much.
Trig was its own half-term in 8th grade (the rest of the year was geometry). Like all the math I took, I don't remember any of it, but I think I liked it at the time.
Cass - Nov 29, 2005 3:02:56 pm PST #7837 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Was that the first GA you saw?!Second. The first one was where McDreamy's unexpected wife came back. But then I never ran into it again. Which is strange because it's not up against anything I would be watching instead. At least my tv knows to watch it now.
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.You could burn two... t bats eyes fetchingly t finds blank dvds
Right. In red chenille.psst, Kat's fierce!
Emily - Nov 29, 2005 3:03:25 pm PST #7838 of 10006
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Maybe if I hadn't been constantly told that, yes, we were deliberately doing things the long boring way, I wouldn't have noticed or minded so much.
Yeah, this is the thing -- you can't tell the students everything, because most of the time they don't care and won't understand, but sometimes, it'd be good to keep them in the loop. Like, as to why on earth you think they should learn this stuff.
Jessica - Nov 29, 2005 3:03:28 pm PST #7839 of 10006
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
LANGLEY, VA—A report released Tuesday by the CIA's Office of the Inspector General revealed that the CIA has mistakenly obscured hundreds of thousands of pages of critical intelligence information with black highlighters.
According to the report, sections of the documents— "almost invariably the most crucial passages"—are marred by an indelible black ink that renders the lines impossible to read, due to a top-secret highlighting policy that began at the agency's inception in 1947.
CIA Director Porter Goss has ordered further internal investigation.
"Why did it go on for this long, and this far?" said Goss in a press conference called shortly after the report's release. "I'm as frustrated as anyone. You can't read a single thing that's been highlighted. Had I been there to advise [former CIA director] Allen Dulles, I would have suggested the traditional yellow color—or pink."
Goss added: "There was probably some really, really important information in these documents."
Kat - Nov 29, 2005 3:06:37 pm PST #7840 of 10006
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Well, Cass, if we can get it to work, you'll get one.
Cass - Nov 29, 2005 3:12:41 pm PST #7841 of 10006
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Whee!
It's nice just knowing that episodes are out there. Somewhere.