This Is Who Is Teaching College
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
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@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
Scott what reality are you in? Most people graduate high school cant even do addition and subtraction without a calculator. Learning engineering physics and calc in high school is not happening anywhere in this country.
And you think that THOSE kids are going on to engineering schools and graduating?
Physics and calc is normal in high school. Every high school kid I know is getting that stuff. Or at least have access to it and only don't get it if they opt out of it.
@art_of_shred and I took the first two years of engineering university calculus together in high school, in fact, as did something like 30% of our class.
My nieces definitely get this stuff in high school, even in Texas.
Find my any high school in the US that doesn't offer physics and calc.
They offer it, but nobody is taking it except 1 or 2% of the kids who want to do more than work as a wageslave in a warehouse or work as minimum wage government employees. It isn't happening like you say. FFS the high school drop out rate in this country is approaching 20% for all students and youre saying everybody cant get engineering classes in high school.
This is a social failure and it's symptoms being cast on the educational system. Just because most of these kids don't want to learn, doesn't mean they can't, and it certainly doesn't mean it's not available. It is an injustice to brainwash these kids into thinking that the only way to a good job with good pay is through a college education and mountains of debt.
Except that the real number is 16% seven years ago and was climbing fast. In reality, I'd say that the problem is the opposite - more kids are taking advanced math than can use it.
I did and I certainly don't use it..
Really? I use it pretty regularly.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
I think this comes down to the normals situation again - most people just follow the herd, don't think for themselves.
Of course, and the blame rests squarely on their shoulders for the decision to follow the herd off the cliff. No one makes them do it.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
I really didn't know what I wanted to do when I got out of High School. I liked computers well enough, but I wasn't like Scott or some of the others here, coding into the wee hours, etc, etc.
And there is absolutely nothing wrong with deciding to go to college rather than doing just whatever else someone might do. The things that are wrong are:
- Complaining about the debt
- Feeling entitled
- Acting like college was going to provide a career opportunity
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@pchiodo said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
Scott what reality are you in? Most people graduate high school cant even do addition and subtraction without a calculator. Learning engineering physics and calc in high school is not happening anywhere in this country.
And you think that THOSE kids are going on to engineering schools and graduating?
Physics and calc is normal in high school. Every high school kid I know is getting that stuff. Or at least have access to it and only don't get it if they opt out of it.
@art_of_shred and I took the first two years of engineering university calculus together in high school, in fact, as did something like 30% of our class.
My nieces definitely get this stuff in high school, even in Texas.
Find my any high school in the US that doesn't offer physics and calc.
They offer it, but nobody is taking it except 1 or 2% of the kids who want to do more than work as a wageslave in a warehouse or work as minimum wage government employees. It isn't happening like you say. FFS the high school drop out rate in this country is approaching 20% for all students and youre saying everybody cant get engineering classes in high school.
This is a social failure and it's symptoms being cast on the educational system. Just because most of these kids don't want to learn, doesn't mean they can't, and it certainly doesn't mean it's not available. It is an injustice to brainwash these kids into thinking that the only way to a good job with good pay is through a college education and mountains of debt.
Except that the real number is 16% seven years ago and was climbing fast. In reality, I'd say that the problem is the opposite - more kids are taking advanced math than can use it.
I did and I certainly don't use it..
Really? I use it pretty regularly.
You do? doing what? I haven't written a Calculus expression in nearly 2 decades.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@pchiodo said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@momurda said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
Scott what reality are you in? Most people graduate high school cant even do addition and subtraction without a calculator. Learning engineering physics and calc in high school is not happening anywhere in this country.
And you think that THOSE kids are going on to engineering schools and graduating?
Physics and calc is normal in high school. Every high school kid I know is getting that stuff. Or at least have access to it and only don't get it if they opt out of it.
@art_of_shred and I took the first two years of engineering university calculus together in high school, in fact, as did something like 30% of our class.
My nieces definitely get this stuff in high school, even in Texas.
Find my any high school in the US that doesn't offer physics and calc.
They offer it, but nobody is taking it except 1 or 2% of the kids who want to do more than work as a wageslave in a warehouse or work as minimum wage government employees. It isn't happening like you say. FFS the high school drop out rate in this country is approaching 20% for all students and youre saying everybody cant get engineering classes in high school.
This is a social failure and it's symptoms being cast on the educational system. Just because most of these kids don't want to learn, doesn't mean they can't, and it certainly doesn't mean it's not available. It is an injustice to brainwash these kids into thinking that the only way to a good job with good pay is through a college education and mountains of debt.
Except that the real number is 16% seven years ago and was climbing fast. In reality, I'd say that the problem is the opposite - more kids are taking advanced math than can use it.
I did and I certainly don't use it..
Really? I use it pretty regularly.
You do? doing what? I haven't written a Calculus expression in nearly 2 decades.
Written, no, not too often. But I use things that I learned in calc constantly. At least once today while contemplating an "approaching zero" scenario for something.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
approaching zero
Holy crap... Asymptote is that the word? I haven't heard or used that since high school.
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@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
approaching zero
Holy crap... Asymptote is that the word? I haven't heard or used that since high school.
I use that all the time, at least conceptually. When thinking about costs, risks and things like that you use calc quite often.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
approaching zero
Holy crap... Asymptote is that the word? I haven't heard or used that since high school.
I use that all the time, at least conceptually. When thinking about costs, risks and things like that you use calc quite often.
You considering that using calculus? I don't - unless you're actually doing the math, you're just using a concept that anyone who's never taken calculus can be taught and understand.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
You considering that using calculus? I don't - unless you're actually doing the math, you're just using a concept that anyone who's never taken calculus can be taught and understand.
You call using calc concepts and understanding "not using calculus?" I'm confused. If you don't know calc, who do you know or use those concepts? If you teach someone that concept and they understand it, they've been forced to learn some parts of calculus to do so.
No matter how you slice it... teaching someone calculus and then them using that... is using calculus
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I did my senior thesis on this topic. Only perfect score in my school's history. My thesis became a mandatory part of the curriculum. The State University of NY got involved and put my thesis on file.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
I did my senior thesis on this topic. Only perfect score in my school's history. My thesis became a mandatory part of the curriculum. The State University of NY got involved and put my thesis on file.
LOL I still had to ask when I was 18. I was 18.5 when I graduated.. and no, before a funny man asks, I wasn't held back a year
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@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
It's hard in NYS. I was ineligible because of a gym class.
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@coliver said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
It's hard in NYS. I was ineligible because of a gym class.
NY works really hard to make sure that no one gets an advantage and that everyone is held back.
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@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
I was a bit behind as well when I returned to the states after living in Guam for 2 years, but I was caught up in under a year.
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@scottalanmiller said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
@Dashrender I was 18.25 when I graduated.
I guess I'm a bit surprised you didn't graduate early.
Me? I was held back in some classes. My school didn't offer "graduate early" to anyone, even people who finished all classes a year early. NY heavily discourages early graduation. But I had no chance to because I went to a private school K-8 and was years behind the public school system going into ninth grade. I had to be in remedial classes in some subjects to get me back up to speed with public school kids. Math was the key thing, I was only at like fifth or maybe sixth grade math level going into high school.
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
I was a bit behind as well when I returned to the states after living in Guam for 2 years, but I was caught up in under a year.
You haven't heard of bad private schools? That doesn't sound right...
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@Dashrender said in This Is Who Is Teaching College:
WHAT? really? a private school that sucked that bad? I've never heard of such a thing.. I suppose mediocrity exists everywhere.
Actually that's the more common case. Private schools are typically far behind public schools. Like the average home schooling, most private schools exist to isolate, not to educate. There can be awesome private schools, and there are, but the most common case is that they don't use qualified teachers as there are no requirements for teachers and don't teach anywhere near a minimum standard. My own school, if you stayed until senior year, had only a single class for girls - makeup and homemaking. I kid you not.
