Pooped
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What a day. Went over to the school to get the admission director's new laptop configured--email, programs, fonts, server connection, dial-up connection. Then worked on a client's app for a couple hours through lunch, watched my son (in 9th grade) go up against an 11th grader in the weekly highschool "forum", debating whether teachers should give homework (Ian was defending homework, I think he won the debate), went to his violin lesson where I worked on an article, came home and went on a 10 mile bikeride, then finished the article and worked on another document, and now it's almost 8PM. Time to start dinner. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 19:54 Thursday 30th March, 2006
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What a day. Went over to the school to get the admission director's new laptop configured--email, programs, fonts, server connection, dial-up connection. Then worked on a client's app for a couple hours through lunch, watched my son (in 9th grade) go up against an 11th grader in the weekly highschool "forum", debating whether teachers should give homework (Ian was defending homework, I think he won the debate), went to his violin lesson where I worked on an article, came home and went on a 10 mile bikeride, then finished the article and worked on another document, and now it's almost 8PM. Time to start dinner. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 19:54 Thursday 30th March, 2006
Marc Clifton wrote:
debating whether teachers should give homework
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework? Montreal great Guy Lafleur, quoted by CBC on being mugged while vacationing recently in Buenos Aires: "I didn't have any time to react before I got a sucker-punch in the eye. It was like one of the players from the Bruins."
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Marc Clifton wrote:
debating whether teachers should give homework
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework? Montreal great Guy Lafleur, quoted by CBC on being mugged while vacationing recently in Buenos Aires: "I didn't have any time to react before I got a sucker-punch in the eye. It was like one of the players from the Bruins."
Mine wa always 'overtime law' :) When I work longer than my appointed hours I either get paid more or I get comped somehow, either by being able to bank my overtime or by being able to use that extra time to show I went 'above and beyond' during the yearly review cycle. Kids do not have any of that. Homework is expected of them, not because it shows any benefit that it enhances the learning process at all, but just because the school day is too short and teachers don;t have enough time to effectively do their job so it gets pushed onto the kitchen tables of the parents and the homes. oh boy.. I feel a rant coming on... oh my... must stop now before I really let loose...
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Marc Clifton wrote:
debating whether teachers should give homework
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework? Montreal great Guy Lafleur, quoted by CBC on being mugged while vacationing recently in Buenos Aires: "I didn't have any time to react before I got a sucker-punch in the eye. It was like one of the players from the Bruins."
Jack Puppy wrote:
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework?
I think it was something like, "Some dude in India or China will just have my job anyway because American companies get zero trade protection from the U.S. Government and have to sell all their labor over-seas just to avoid bankruptcy." Yeah, I'm pretty sure that was it.:suss: (That's less a statement about India or China and more a statement that America has some really serious problems and it's horribly scary to see some of the stuff that has happened and is only going to get worse.)
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What a day. Went over to the school to get the admission director's new laptop configured--email, programs, fonts, server connection, dial-up connection. Then worked on a client's app for a couple hours through lunch, watched my son (in 9th grade) go up against an 11th grader in the weekly highschool "forum", debating whether teachers should give homework (Ian was defending homework, I think he won the debate), went to his violin lesson where I worked on an article, came home and went on a 10 mile bikeride, then finished the article and worked on another document, and now it's almost 8PM. Time to start dinner. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson -- modified at 19:54 Thursday 30th March, 2006
Why "pooped"? If that's a bad day (am I missing something?), the excremental scale lacks the open bottom to express some of mine.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
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Mine wa always 'overtime law' :) When I work longer than my appointed hours I either get paid more or I get comped somehow, either by being able to bank my overtime or by being able to use that extra time to show I went 'above and beyond' during the yearly review cycle. Kids do not have any of that. Homework is expected of them, not because it shows any benefit that it enhances the learning process at all, but just because the school day is too short and teachers don;t have enough time to effectively do their job so it gets pushed onto the kitchen tables of the parents and the homes. oh boy.. I feel a rant coming on... oh my... must stop now before I really let loose...
Do you not think that having to do homework might develop self-discipline - i.e. I don't want to do it, but I've got to. It's definitely something that many people could do with more of (self-discipline, that is, not homework).
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Why "pooped"? If that's a bad day (am I missing something?), the excremental scale lacks the open bottom to express some of mine.
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighistpeterchen wrote:
If that's a bad day (am I missing something?), the excremental scale
Not bad, just busy and feeling tired at the end of it. "Pooped" is a slang for being tired, rather than anything having to do with kaka. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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Marc Clifton wrote:
debating whether teachers should give homework
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework? Montreal great Guy Lafleur, quoted by CBC on being mugged while vacationing recently in Buenos Aires: "I didn't have any time to react before I got a sucker-punch in the eye. It was like one of the players from the Bruins."
Jack Puppy wrote:
What was the kid's argument for not giving out homework?
His strongest argument, but one that he failed to emphasize, was recent studies showing that less homework actually improves grades. Ian shot back with how grades are affected by many factors, not just homework, and that the debate was whether any homework at all should be given, rather than "some". Another argument was that not everyone has a good environment at home to do homework. Not exactly a problem of the homework itself. And the usual "homework encourages cheating" and "homework doesn't teach you anything useful" arguments. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
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peterchen wrote:
If that's a bad day (am I missing something?), the excremental scale
Not bad, just busy and feeling tired at the end of it. "Pooped" is a slang for being tired, rather than anything having to do with kaka. Marc Pensieve Functional Entanglement vs. Code Entanglement Static Classes Make For Rigid Architectures Some people believe what the bible says. Literally. At least [with Wikipedia] you have the chance to correct the wiki -- Jörgen Sigvardsson
ah ok then :)
Some of us walk the memory lane, others plummet into a rabbit hole
Tree in C# || Fold With Us! || sighist