This Is Who Is Teaching College
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
approaching zero
Holy crap... Asymptote is that the word? I haven't heard or used that since high school.
I use that all the time, at least conceptually. When thinking about costs, risks and things like that you use calc quite often.
You considering that using calculus? I don't - unless you're actually doing the math, you're just using a concept that anyone who's never taken calculus can be taught and understand.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
You considering that using calculus? I don't - unless you're actually doing the math, you're just using a concept that anyone who's never taken calculus can be taught and understand.
You call using calc concepts and understanding "not using calculus?" I'm confused. If you don't know calc, who do you know or use those concepts? If you teach someone that concept and they understand it, they've been forced to learn some parts of calculus to do so.
No matter how you slice it... teaching someone calculus and then them using that... is using calculus
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I did my senior thesis on this topic. Only perfect score in my school's history. My thesis became a mandatory part of the curriculum. The State University of NY got involved and put my thesis on file.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
I did my senior thesis on this topic. Only perfect score in my school's history. My thesis became a mandatory part of the curriculum. The State University of NY got involved and put my thesis on file.
LOL I still had to ask when I was 18. I was 18.5 when I graduated.. and no, before a funny man asks, I wasn't held back a year
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@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
It's hard in NYS. I was ineligible because of a gym class.
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@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
It's hard in NYS. I was ineligible because of a gym class.
NY works really hard to make sure that no one gets an advantage and that everyone is held back.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
I was a bit behind as well when I returned to the states after living in Guam for 2 years, but I was caught up in under a year.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
I was a bit behind as well when I returned to the states after living in Guam for 2 years, but I was caught up in under a year.
You haven't heard of bad private schools? That doesn't sound right...
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
Actually that's the more common case. Private schools are typically far behind public schools. Like the average home schooling, most private schools exist to isolate, not to educate. There can be awesome private schools, and there are, but the most common case is that they don't use qualified teachers as there are no requirements for teachers and don't teach anywhere near a minimum standard. My own school, if you stayed until senior year, had only a single class for girls - makeup and homemaking. I kid you not.
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To be clear there is a difference between a REAL private school and a Christian Private school. REAL Private schools are all about the high level of academics. Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
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@Minion-Queen said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
To be clear there is a difference between a REAL private school and a Christian Private school. REAL Private schools are all about the high level of academics. Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
LOL - This might be different in different areas, I don't believe Omaha has any non religion based private schools. There are some that downplay the religion aspects, but there are core classes of religion that are still required.
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@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
I was a bit behind as well when I returned to the states after living in Guam for 2 years, but I was caught up in under a year.
You haven't heard of bad private schools? That doesn't sound right...
Nope, really haven't. again I'm probably isolated from this because I don't have kids and don't pay attention to most things related to schooling them.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Minion-Queen said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
To be clear there is a difference between a REAL private school and a Christian Private school. REAL Private schools are all about the high level of academics. Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
LOL - This might be different in different areas, I don't believe Omaha has any non religion based private schools. There are some that downplay the religion aspects, but there are core classes of religion that are still required.
Then you've definitely heard of ones with poor educations
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Minion-Queen said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
To be clear there is a difference between a REAL private school and a Christian Private school. REAL Private schools are all about the high level of academics. Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
LOL - This might be different in different areas, I don't believe Omaha has any non religion based private schools. There are some that downplay the religion aspects, but there are core classes of religion that are still required.
Then you've definitely heard of ones with poor educations
generally around here I hear about how poor education is in public schools compared to private. i.e. if you want your kid to get a good education, private school is a must.
In the super tiny amount of exposure I get, I have a friend who is sending his 7 year old daughter to private school.. he's amazed about how kids in her school are doing calculus in 6th grade - really he's just trying to brag. I'm like whatever. If the motivation is there and the child has an amplitude, sure why not.
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@Minion-Queen said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
So much this!
I include home schoolers in that as well. So many folks I know that were home schooled (or are being homeschooled) have such a limited world view (limited to what their parents are teaching them within incredibly strict religious boundaries). This does nothing to prepare the kids for real life -- even less so than modern public schools.
Edit: That's not to say that all home schooling is bad, but if you're going to home school a child, teach them about the real world, and history, and math, and science, and not just "God Says..."
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@dafyre said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Minion-Queen said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
Most Christian schools are all about the not teaching anything that could be related to the real world.
So much this!
I include home schoolers in that as well. So many folks I know that were home schooled (or are being homeschooled) have such a limited world view (limited to what their parents are teaching them within incredibly strict religious boundaries). This does nothing to prepare the kids for real life -- even less so than modern public schools.
Edit: That's not to say that all home schooling is bad, but if you're going to home school a child, teach them about the real world, and history, and math, and science, and not just "God Says..."
I said the same thing about homeschooling above, and we homeschool so....
