I am waiting for the day when I have the time, energy and money to go
back to school "just because".
I did well on those stanardized tests because I have a pretty logical
brain and a really good short term memory (it's how I managed to get my
OCP without ever seeing an 8i db or cracking the manuals)
My parents, as seniors, get to go to the city university for $75 a
semester and take any class or classes they want. No tests, no papers,
just learn. I'm so jealous.
School systems have too many kids in each class and the teachers can't
really teach or give attention either to the ones who need help or the
ones who are way ahead of the class.
- April Wells <awells_at_csedge.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:39 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> 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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