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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-10 at 18:33:51
Okay you take a left at millbury lane, drive for 3.14 miles and make a right. Solve for x.

I love family guy.


I got the teacher who's regarded as the worst teacher in the school. I like him though, I like his teaching method, but the only problem I have with him is that he has notebooks that you must keep (like 8 sections -.- ).

Oh yeah, he gives a bunch of homework, but that's to be expected.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by iamacow on 2005-10-10 at 22:00:18
English is a class for teaching kids not to sound like fools, in writing, and while speaking. So many kids at my school would be hard to understand if you didn't know all of the slang used. If you write things in real life with terrible grammar and vocabulary, people don't take you seriously. If you never learn how to prove a point, people won't take you seriously.

The only thing that should cause trouble in school is time management. I get to have the fun experience of rushing to do homework through classes, or some things even worse. For example, two summer assignments, one is notes + an essay for a 200 page book, the other was 8 essay outlines, and notes on 5 chapters of a text book, in one day. If I managed my time, I wouldn't have to do my math homework in class tomorrow morning when I've had ~15 hours I could've have spent doing stuff besides wasting time. I still get straight A's, though, because the work is easy.

A problem with school is the teachers. Some people don't care about their jobs at all and don't care to teach kids. There is a teacher at my school who has his History class watch Band of Brothers 2nd semester. Everyone knows his classes are all blowoff classes. If teachers were paid more, the people that actually knew their stuff might want to teach. That would require more funding for public schools, though.

You can always learn stuff on your own, too. If I ever get around to managing time (after Marching Season) I'm going to start reading stuff outside of my required school readings, like classic literature and books about any subject that interests me. I might start learning math ahead of my class, because I feel the pace is a little too slow for me. If you are bothered by the pace of your class, ask a teacher for the next level up for a rubric, learn it, and you can test out because you actually know what you need to learn.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by ... on 2005-10-11 at 20:22:59
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MORE HOMEWORK DOES NOT EQUAL MORE LEARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!


Hell yeah! My mom does actaully agree with that. happy.gif
But, gladly, my school is very different than all of yours. You can graduate earlier at my school. We use 30-40 page books called PACE's. You just have to set your own personal goals and finish the pages you want to finish. You can even do extras. I got to 7th grade like half a year early. Because pubic schools is slow and PACEs let you go as fast you can. If you don't know how to do something, your teacher can help you until you understand how it works. By the way, my schools have half-days every wednesdays and you don't have homework at all if you finish all your goals at school. wink.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Infested-Jerk on 2005-10-12 at 19:08:46
My geometry teacher is slow as hell. We have an eighty minuite period, and me and my friends are done after 20, and with school giving us a laptop for the year, well, they get used too much.

But geometry sucks.

Especially proofs.
Why prove what the teacher told you was true?
Jut knwo it, then repeat on text, then forget half of it so you can tell your son/daughter I learned it, but can't remember it now.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CheeZe on 2005-10-12 at 19:22:36
If you don't understand proofs, then you won't understand why it works. If you don't understand why it works, you're going to suck in Calculus.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-12 at 19:50:44
Oh God. I love paces. Too bad public school here don't do them, and the only place around here is like 40+ miles away and is a druggie school. sad.gif
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kame on 2005-10-12 at 20:25:57
QUOTE(CheeZe @ Sep 13 2005, 03:30 PM)
Geometry, advanced? (lol) If you think you know geometry, can you prove to me why the SAS works but not SSA?
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Because you can't be an ASS!!!^^ yea, my geometry teacher is really immature. yaygoteamproofs xD

Look kid, second week of ninth grade teaches you blam. The reality is that different middle schools have different excelerated programs, and each one of them skips over some things and emphasizes others; its to even it out. Your in high school with hundreds of other new people, second weekof school isn't going to tell you where you stand. Especially ninth grade. Stop :censored:ing. You obviously didn't understand what the teacher is trying to get at, or else you would have tested out. Pythageon Theorum (excuse my bad spelling forte) is quite useful as you progress in math. Suck it up and take it.

Geometry is accelerated? Wow...that's sophmore year standard class.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-12 at 21:21:59
a bunch of people bragging about highschool classes


gaaaaaay
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-12 at 21:28:32
This isnt bragging, this is complaining and/or proving points wronging.

And would that be considered flaming? I'll let Moose decide.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Demaris on 2005-10-13 at 09:41:07

Hahahahahah.... Yesterday i couldn't get on here so i'll post this now:

I'm convinced that negative numbers don't exist. They are concepts and not real things.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-13 at 10:02:55
QUOTE(Demaris @ Oct 13 2005, 07:41 AM)

Hahahahahah.... Yesterday i couldn't get on here so i'll post this now:

I'm convinced that negative numbers don't exist. They are concepts and not real things.

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Are you sure you aren't thinking of imaginary numbers? confused.gif


If not, think about stocks.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kame on 2005-10-13 at 12:14:32
imaginary numbers only appear in certain equations, because its so much easier to put an - instead of an i^3 and such.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-13 at 20:34:51
Negative numbers can exist, kinda. You can owe money. Could that be considered real?

They're stupid anyway xD
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kame on 2005-10-13 at 20:41:19
if negative numbers aren't real, than neither or positive numbers. Equal and opposite laws, remember?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-13 at 20:44:18
Meh, those are just theories [/sarcasm]
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Demaris on 2005-10-13 at 23:51:33

My thoughts were that they can only be applied to concepts and representations, like money. Therefore they don't actually exist since they are "concepts".
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-14 at 00:35:37
QUOTE(Demaris @ Oct 13 2005, 09:51 PM)

My thoughts were that they can only be applied to concepts and representations, like money. Therefore they don't actually exist since they are "concepts".

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Huh? They can easily represent concrete amounts.

For example, a furniture store's inventory had a -8 peice change in September.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by @:@ on 2005-10-14 at 01:27:36
Negative numbers are very important in physics. Without negative numbers, there would be no way to express forces in opposite directions.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-14 at 10:19:23
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Negative numbers are very important in physics. Without negative numbers, there would be no way to express forces in opposite directions.
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Well, vectors could be used.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by @:@ on 2005-10-14 at 12:50:23
Not necessarily.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Kow on 2005-10-14 at 15:36:22
Moreso, not easily.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Staredit.Net Essence on 2005-10-14 at 17:52:45
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Not necessarily.
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Give one example.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2005-10-14 at 23:20:16
Now I'm more fed up with my school, I finish everything in my classes to fast and sometimes we have to define things I know so well I can't define it properly without making things more complex.




Negative numbers are real. What could possibly convince you otherwise?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Demaris on 2005-10-15 at 02:32:35

It was more a spur of the moment thought. And more to give my math teacher a hassle trying to prove that they exist.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Master-kenobi on 2005-10-18 at 11:32:43
omg i ACTUALLY found someone whoa ggrees with me

MORE HOMWORK DOES NOT EQUAL BETTER SCORES

HORRAY

ok now dis shows how much xtr work ppl get

i learned long division in 5th grade then my friends gointo 3rd has to learn long division and get a fluence faster than mine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plus im glad with homeschool cus i dun wanna b there when the dombass schools put like 90% vegitables and fruites in the lunchroom
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