December 6, 2006
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so...i am supposed to be reading to write a reflection paper that is due tomorrow. and what have i done for the past 3 hours? for the past 3 hours i have helped my niece study for a math final... over IM...i don't know whether i want to cry or bang my head on the desk...
part of my frustration, granted, is in the lack of technology for IM to convey certain math statements. however a much larger part is frustration with a public school system that would let her pass her high school proficiency tests without a basic knowledge of long division, of fractions, of percents... she's not the only one, either. i've tutored 4 or more persons, one of whom was in honors, in the last few years, and the deficiencies were the same. i'm sorry, but there's no excuse for this. they all went on to college, got IN to college, and even in the remedial maths are having issues. i was certainly no math whiz, but they would not have let me OUT of school, let alone IN to college, with these sorts of issues...
i am not sanguine, not even a little bit, about these examples of grade inflation. my other niece and nephew were able to get higher than 4.0 GPAs when they graduated high school, and yet they cannot even carry on a conversation in spanish with me (they took 4 years in high school, are within 2 years of the last time they took it, and i took 1 semester years ago in college as an undergrad)...
since i am in no way a cosmic genius, this says something quite unsatisfactory about the school system in the US
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:sunny:Hey sweets .. thanks for coming by and leaving a comment .. I appreciate it ...
Hope you are doing better .. I will pray for you right now about your tests and school and papers .. I know it's a challenging thing and I just want to encourage you to perservere ... I admire all of you that continue your education ...
Come see me anytime!
Hugs, Connie from Texas
RYC---i could NEVER live in Philly, hear they EAT Giants' fans alive there:eek: Right now i live down the road from the Governator....Ahhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrnold:fun:
No you'd think that since the internet was created by science geeks [and Al Gore] you'd be able to do calculus and quantum mechanics equation on here with no problemo...the friggin calculator they got on MS isn't much better than an abascus though, so it's no wonder:mad:
ryc: imma tell christopher you called him dreamy; he'll love that!
That is rather disturbing, isn't it?
I know you a couple RYC's but I just have time right now to wish you luck on your paper(s).
RYC: Yeah, I knew I hadn't made up that idea, I just thought about it for the first time the other day. It's really quite interesting :]
ryc: hahaha, that confused me too
RYC: Added to the boring list.
I've always felt that public school systems simply don't care about the student as long as they can shove them into a good enough class so it'll make the school look better. I was horrible at math -- still am -- and actually got an F- in pre-algebra. I never had a public school teacher that had any success explaining anything about math to me. I'm STILL bad at division. And I'm almost as bad at multiplication. I doubt that it'll ever get better.
also ... ryc: Thanks for your concern on the post about my ex. I really appreciate it. And I just kinda twitched when I wrote ex... lol. It feels strange. A month ago, I thought I might be with him forever. Not sure if I wanted it that way, though. Things are getting a bit better, I think. Maybe.
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