School Venting Begins

[assateague]

No, don't hop. The government will carry you wherever you need to go. That's more like it.

[bill herian]

Big GIS midterm today. Just looked over the review material.

Looks like its gonna be pretty fuckin hard.

I think this prof is an idiot, and if I use enough nerdspeak he will think I know what I'm talking about.

MT, they got you using any GIS?

[assateague]

I thought you were going hunting? What gives?

[bill herian]

I thought you were going hunting? What gives?

I am going hunting. Cocksucker decides to have a midterm today. I haven't had the best adendance record in this class, so there is no way he was going to le me take it early.

I'm done with exam at three, then pointing the truck at Sault Saint Marie.

I'll get there in time to tuck the boys in and read em a story.

[rozzo842]

I don't know why what he wrote is wrong.

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[The Duck Hammer]

WTF? What is wrote made complete sense.


Sent from my Vox Mortem

[assateague]

I'm with Rozzo- I'm not going to make it through this year without starting some shit. I suspect it's just a question of who snaps first.

[Goldfish]

I've got nothing on that either

sent from a phancy fone

[rozzo842]

I'm with Rozzo- I'm not going to make it through this year without starting some shit. I suspect it's just a question of who snaps first.

a letter went in with him today. I kept it very polite this time.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

Big GIS midterm today. Just looked over the review material.

Looks like its gonna be pretty fuckin hard.

I think this prof is an idiot, and if I use enough nerdspeak he will think I know what I'm talking about.

MT, they got you using any GIS?

negative, i should probably take it at some point though. problem i have is that i'm pretty far back on the technological curve, so i don't really know enough about computers to use any programs.

[Mornin Beef]

Big GIS midterm today. Just looked over the review material.

Looks like its gonna be pretty fuckin hard.

I think this prof is an idiot, and if I use enough nerdspeak he will think I know what I'm talking about.

MT, they got you using any GIS?

negative, i should probably take it at some point though. problem i have is that i'm pretty far back on the technological curve, so i don't really know enough about computers to use any programs.

I use GIS every single day at my job.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

I use GIS every single day at my job.

what do you do Beef?

[Mornin Beef]

I use GIS every single day at my job.

what do you do Beef?

I gps squirrel nest locations for the gov't primarily, but have to use GIS to make squirrel nests location maps because thats the real deliverable. Something about NY law that says gas fracking cant kill squirrels.

[Olly]

I use GIS every single day at my job.

what do you do Beef?

I gps squirrel nest locations for the gov't primarily, but have to use GIS to make squirrel nests location maps because thats the real deliverable. Something about NY law that says gas fracking cant kill squirrels.

There is a joke about you being "nuts" in there somewhere.

[assateague]

Why can't I print a fucking Google satellite image without pasting the screen shot into power point, cropping it, and saving as a photo? Pisses me off.

[The Duck Hammer]

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Sent from my Vox Mortem

[(MT)Montanafowler]

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Sent from my Vox Mortem

that kid gets it

the best term for it is "Luminous knowledge" Descartes didn't have the term, but his basic premise was "you can just know it's true."

[(MT)Montanafowler]

Why can't I print a fucking Google satellite image without pasting the screen shot into power point, cropping it, and saving as a photo? Pisses me off.

fucking hate google maps. i'd like GE if i could make custom printable TOPOs from it.

[assateague]

Someone please tell me what the hell "system" is in place for teaching kids to spell. There's no rhyme or reason whatsoever, and math is just as bad. Fucking haphazard nonsense.

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[The Duck Hammer]

Someone please tell me what the hell "system" is in place for teaching kids to spell. There's no rhyme or reason whatsoever, and math is just as bad. Fucking haphazard nonsense.

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I'll is a contraction. Why the fuck would you put that in with regular words. I'm with you boss, makes no fucking sense.

[aunt betty]

I dont want to know what they teach small children and why.
The system COUNTS on this fact or we'd all storm the schools over the four R's.
What sucks is all the "guns are evil" crap thats getting taught quietly in the gym.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

Fucking haphazard nonsense.

any subtraction yet? the new thing is to teach them "plus/add a negative" you can tell that it works about as good as it sounds.

[The Duck Hammer]

Fucking haphazard nonsense.

any subtraction yet? the new thing is to teach them "plus/add a negative" you can tell that it works about as good as it sounds.

Never understood that shit. I just tuned it out and did it my way.

[assateague]

Started doing two digit subtraction (the top and bottom kind) last week. Today, came home with the kind where you have to borrow a ten. Only it's not called "borrowing", it's called "breaking down into tens" or some dumb shit. Nothing like working for about 3 days on subtracting double digits, with about 10 practice problems a day total (that's all- I'm not exaggerating) before moving on to an abstract concept like "borrowing a ten". And then teaching it in a stupid manner.

We were doing that in first grade. And in addition to the addition and subtraction tables on the wall, we did worksheet after worksheet of problems, usually about 50 problems per, for weeks, until it became second nature. Heaven forbid something is taught that way. I guess it's easier to raise children to be hopelessly dependent on the government by flailing around, jumping from concept to concept. Which I'm sure is the way they want it. There is no incentive in having highly educated functioning citizens, because that very thing would detract from the people who would support the very government which is in charge of the system.

I'm telling you, the snap is coming.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

Fucking haphazard nonsense.

any subtraction yet? the new thing is to teach them "plus/add a negative" you can tell that it works about as good as it sounds.

Never understood that shit. I just tuned it out and did it my way.

i see the work from my girlfriend's classes, you can tell those kids do not understand subtraction. i told her if she's teaching that add a negative shit that she needs to stop now.

you can't honestly expect a child to understand subtraction when you tell them to add it to make it subtract, how fucking retarded is that?

[assateague]

It's bad. I was actually TOLD that the school doesn't expect them to "get" subtraction until 3rd grade, when the curriculum causes it to "all come together". This is the most asinine thing I've heard in a while. It's just dumb, lazy, and fucked up. I don't appreciate my child's education being the result of a social experiment. She does, however, let me know regularly that I need to recycle, and not put as much "gas from the jeep in the air, because it causes people to die". Whenever this happens, I tell her to inform whoever is telling her that that they can call me, because "my dad loves this country and the rest of the world sucks". Hopefully, she will, and I will get a call.

[rozzo842]

I just logged on to rant and you guys are one step ahead of me. Check out this jem that came home today

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[rozzo842]

Oh and my letter was completely ignored, that will be the last one I send and hold back on.

[(MT)Montanafowler]

as i recall, we did number lines. we also wrote out addition, subtraction and multiplication tables, a lot.

yep, i think you're damn right.

It's bad. I was actually TOLD that the school doesn't expect them to "get" subtraction until 3rd grade, when the curriculum causes it to "all come together". This is the most asinine thing I've heard in a while. It's just dumb, lazy, and fucked up. I don't appreciate my child's education being the result of a social experiment. She does, however, let me know regularly that I need to recycle, and not put as much "gas from the jeep in the air, because it causes people to die". Whenever this happens, I tell her to inform whoever is telling her that that they can call me, because "my dad loves this country and the rest of the world sucks". Hopefully, she will, and I will get a call.

my girlfriend teaches 7th and 8th and they still don't understand subtraction, so evidently it never comes together.

if i ever have kids, i'm homeschooling.

[The Duck Hammer]

I just logged on to rant and you guys are one step ahead of me. Check out this jem that came home today

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WTF? That's confusing as all get-out.