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Be glad that you aren't in Texas. I DESPISE the testing system here. I realize that to a great extent it is needed (there are high school JRs who can't divide 6 by 3 and get an accurate answer) but they TEACH to the TEKS (or whatever the stupid name is this year). My 8 year old came home in tears because she was going to flunk 3rd grade (she came home in OCTOBER telling me this) because she went from getting an A in math to getting a B when they started division. The logic in stressing her out like this? "We have never taken this test before, and we want to maintain our perfect school rating"... if our kids aren't perfect then we aren't perfect and we will loose our status in the community. She got a B... and it wasn't even on her report card as a B... just on a test... she's 8. I would hate math and school too if all that mattered to anyone was "the" test and the stellar reputation of the school.
Sorry... sore subject.
LOVED logic! If A then B, If B then C, A therefore C... all dogs are animals with fur, but not all animals with fur are dogs!
April Wells
Oracle DBA
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
-- Albert Einstein
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:55 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I don't know about you, but the first time I took a logic course it was in university... It seems to me it would be fun for high school students to take newspaper or magazine articles (Teen magazine comes to mind) and pull them apart to show that statement B doesn't necessarily follow from the previous paragraph, etc. In our logic class we had a lot of fun examining statements made by "pundits" in the media.
But ooops! Logic falls under philosophy, that's not teachable in the public system, seen as irrelevant.
Logic is done by unconscious habit by most people it seems to me, rarely consciously applied. So generalized statements abound, misperceptions spread...
My 6 year old son has asked me at least three times now if it's OK for boys to play with Barbies... he doesn't have one but am thinking of purchasing him one for his birthday, just to see where he will go with that. My wife hates Barbies with a passion. But I think she hates Universal Soldiers more.
; )
Regards,
Patrice Boivin
Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
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Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:39 PM
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I will agree to some extent. But I have TRIED to get my daughter on the computers, into math and science, interested in anything technology... she tells me that Computers are geeky (she's 8). She is my militant little feminist and into sports and precision jump rope... I try to explain that I work with computers. The geeky logic doesn't always stick.
April Wells
Oracle DBA
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds
-- Albert Einstein
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