There is no hope II
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
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Alexander DiMauro wrote:
I weep for the future...
I don't. The 8 year old knew better than the teacher.
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The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations. :sigh:
That gives me an idea for a new esolang ...
062142174041062102
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My step-daughter (5th grade) learned from her social studies “old-school” teacher that: -First man in the space was American. -The Periodic Table of Elements was created from the ancient Greeks. :sigh: But this is not a big deal. She used to have magnificent teachers so we can’t make generalizations for all of them because of just one or two little ignorant individuals.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
The Periodic Table of Elements was created from the ancient Greeks
ancient Greek periodic table - simple, 3 elements - food, wine, wenches ! 'g'
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That gives me an idea for a new esolang ...
062142174041062102
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Just like more bacon, there is nothing wrong with more cake... or more chocolate. Lutfisk on the other hand, even just a little bit, there is a lot wrong with.
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Just like more bacon, there is nothing wrong with more cake... or more chocolate. Lutfisk on the other hand, even just a little bit, there is a lot wrong with.
RJOberg wrote:
Lutfisk
Lutefisk is a treat when prepared correctly. It should NOT resemble a lump of jelly. It's also customary to have aquavite with the dish. Sometimes in rather large quantities, as this really is required when the dish isn't perfectly prepared.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
My step-daughter (5th grade) learned from her social studies “old-school” teacher that:
-First man in the space was American.The scary part is that a lot of Americans have no idea who Yuri Gagarin was. I remember the looks on people's faces when I said 'Happy Yuri's Night!' last April, and no one had any idea what I was talking about. Sad. Most Americans also think that Henry Ford invented the automobile...
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Alexander DiMauro wrote:
The scary part is that a lot of Americans have no idea who Yuri Gagarin was
Here is an illuminating repost[^].
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Alexander DiMauro wrote:
3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags.
Goddamnit! That salesman said I could always count on these!
When I went to gymnasium[^] - we had an encyclopedia that dated back to WW II - it had some rather unflattering things in it about jews (and most other races/cultures). I would have expected that they had gotten around to replacing that by 1985.
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RJOberg wrote:
Lutfisk
Lutefisk is a treat when prepared correctly. It should NOT resemble a lump of jelly. It's also customary to have aquavite with the dish. Sometimes in rather large quantities, as this really is required when the dish isn't perfectly prepared.
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My grandmother would make it for my grandfather. The smell was terrible. It looked like pieces of very flakey whitefish, tasted somewhat but not entirely like how paste smelled, along with salt, pepper, and a lot of butter. While everything else she cooked was fabulous, it is possible she didn't know how to make it.
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My grandmother would make it for my grandfather. The smell was terrible. It looked like pieces of very flakey whitefish, tasted somewhat but not entirely like how paste smelled, along with salt, pepper, and a lot of butter. While everything else she cooked was fabulous, it is possible she didn't know how to make it.
RJOberg wrote:
it is possible she didn't know how to make it
Most likely - few can, and I'm not one of them ;) Going to a good restaurant helps a lot.
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
This[^] may lift your spirit, or perhaps not :laugh:
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The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations. :sigh:
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations. :sigh:
Just like you ignored the S in Maths.
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
25+ year old encyclopedia
Do they have computers at your daughter's school? Has the teacher heard of the net and wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Ukraine[^]
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
I weep for the future.
So when you went to school were the teachers all perfect and fonts of knowledge? Certainly wasn't true when I went to school. And that was true of all education up through university graduate courses. Of course when I went to school it was significantly harder to verify information for teachers and students.
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says
So the only encyclopedia in the classroom is 25 years old and might even be the personal property of the teacher. Certainly seems possible that there might be more to blame in this case than the teacher, for example the fact that the school system doesn't provide more up to date materials. And given that you have a very specific vested interest in this I am curious as to exactly what you have done in the past year to improve the school?
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU!
So every time a single student in a class of perhaps 30 students (hopefully no more) says that the teacher is wrong the teacher should agree? Even when perhaps the best available source says otherwise?
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
Please tell me you've politely brought (or plan to bring) this fact to the attention your daughter's teacher? /ravi
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
My step-daughter (5th grade) learned from her social studies “old-school” teacher that:
-First man in the space was American.The scary part is that a lot of Americans have no idea who Yuri Gagarin was. I remember the looks on people's faces when I said 'Happy Yuri's Night!' last April, and no one had any idea what I was talking about. Sad. Most Americans also think that Henry Ford invented the automobile...
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
Most Americans also think that Henry Ford invented the automobile...
I doubt that.
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future:
Alexander DiMauro wrote:
I weep for the future...
The future that your daughter will be a part of? If she is indeed smarter than the teacher, you should be looking forward to the future, shouldn't you?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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The guy who taught the Discrete Math class at my college ignored parentheses in some equations. :sigh:
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As a continuation to this previous post by Henry Minute on 4 May, 2012[^], I offer more evidence that there is no hope for the future: My 8 year old daughter was doing a class project in which she had to pick one country from her ancestry and make a presentation. My wife's family is Ukrainian, so she picked Ukraine. Fast forward to the final day of the project, they had to make flags of their country in class. My daughter, who has seen a Ukrainian flag hundreds of times, and even owns one, tells her teacher that the flag is blue and yellow. The teacher looks in her 25+ year old encyclopedia and says 'No, this book says it looks like this' and, despite my daughter telling her over and over again that it is blue and yellow, she FORCES her to make the Ukraine Soviet Socialist Republic flag instead, which is basically the Soviet flag with a blue stripe on the bottom. 1. She wouldn't listen to my daughter who told her over and over again that she knew how the flag looks. 2. She didn't even recognize the fact that the flag is basically the soviet flag, and the Soviet Union hasn't existed for 20+ years. Even during Soviet times, that flag was rarely seen. 3. She thinks a 25+ year old encyclopedia still has up-to-date flags. This pretty much sums up this whole situation[^] LISTEN TO THE 8 YEAR OLD! SHE KNOWS MORE THAN YOU! I weep for the future... :doh: :wtf: :sigh:
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.
I once told a teacher, in 1976, that I was six years old. She asked when I was born, and I told her 1969. She then told me I was wrong because if I was born in 1969, I would be 7, because 76-69 is 7. Took my ID Book the next day to show the silly bat my real birthday.
