In California, mathematics is used as punishment for failing teachers. They are forced to "teach" math classes, for which they have no background or education themselves, in order to get them to fail completely so they can be fired or encourage them to leave the profession voluntarily, a faster process that still takes a few years. So some of them, for example, occupy their charges with a full hour of listening to audio recordings of barking dogs. Others tell their students crap like "You aren't going to understand this. I don't understand this. But it's on the standardized test, so listen up." These little vignettes and others occurred at a "California Distinguished High School" about ten years ago. So now maybe you will understand why, yes, mathematics is indeed very hard in California. I could go on....
/Rick N6XI On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Hard to believe mathematics is so hard in California...:-) > > -- Rick Tavan N6XI Truckee, CA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
