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I swear that Dahlia's humor is the only thing that gets me through some of the opinions coming out of the Court. I know that I am not alone.
It's parents, I think, who will have to band together and effectively overrule the Court here and push to create policies in the school districts that dictate what happens to their children and when, instead of leaving those decisions in the hands of administrators.
That settles it. I swear, if I ever have kids, I'm home-schooling.
Sure, because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it.
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Math people, I have a statistics/averages type question that's too much for my addled brain. Say you have a contest with five finalists and the method of scoring the finalists is assigning a simple 1-5 ranking.
Nine judges give a contestant a #1 ranking, the other three give a #5. How do I go about figuring out the average for that contestant? I'm probably making this more complicated than it needs to be in my head.
because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it
In other arenas, that would be leverage. Shame that with stakes so damned high it's not.
Sure, because the best solution to fixing the problems with our public school system is for all the parents with other options to pull their kids out of it.
Fighting a public school system can be emotionally draining, not just for the parents, but more importantly, for the student who's being directly affected by it.
Sometimes, pulling them out is the best solution.
Signed, former public school teacher and homeschooler.
Nine judges give a contestant a #1 ranking, the other three give a #5. How do I go about figuring out the average for that contestant?
((9 x 1) + (3 x 5))/9.
Okay. I was making it more complicated. Thanks, ita.
I have the same kneejerk reaction when I hear this from people, and, also, "teaching is hard - what makes you think you'll be good at it?" It's because I come from a family with a lot of professional teachers, I think, that it gets my back up when people assume anyone can do it.
Andi, you should be outraged at the questions at oral argument, yesterday. Just how the opinion will be written, and where they'll draw the lines remains to be seen. But RBG's dissent should be a thing of beauty.
"teaching is hard - what makes you think you'll be good at it?" It's because I come from a family with a lot of professional teachers, I think, that it gets my back up when people assume anyone can do it.
Oh, yeah, that is maddening! My sister-in-law, who is a 2nd grade teacher, home schooled my older niece for a year when niece was 6ish and she had a rough time of it. Just being together alone day in and day out took a toll.
The thing that totally baffles me about the strip search case is why in the hell they didn't call the child's mother in the first place. If they needed to give her ibuprofen they would HAVE to call her. But to strip search the child for her, they don't bother to call?
The Slate article on it notes that schools finding naked pictures on cell phones or email immediately call the police on the basis that the teenagers are child pornographers.
I'm pissed about the whole thing and worry about what my kids are going to face in public schools but I also know that you have to fight the good fight sometimes, from the inside to make a difference.