I’ll agree that it didn’t sound like the guy above took the difficult classes, especially if he was going to teach mathematics.

I will disagree with the notion that teachers should only concentrate on what they are going to teach. This is part of the problem sometimes with math teachers, especially in elementary,…

Agreed. I probably listen to it at least once a month. I also love their version of Lake of Fire.

Also, is Johnny Cash’s Hurt better than NIN’s? (But I am very partial to Johnny Cash, so I am probably biased here.)

I don’t like to cry about calls, but that last foul (and the two that put Tillman out of the game) were terrible.

Of course, I am biased as a Mizzou grad.

I have been meaning to learn some of this for years now, but the push is even stronger than ever now. There is a free online homework system called MyOpenMath, and it is adaptable enough that you can code your own problems, but I haven’t had any programming since a Pascal class back in the early 90s. This looks like…

Such a great idea! I did this years ago with a photo slide show (or Powerpoint) turned into a video. It was pretty plain, but it had a countdown with the requisite “Happy New Years” finale.

My kids are too old for this now, but if you don’t have Netflix, the slide show can be a nice substitute.

That is a great point. It has taken a lot for me to get used to the idea that my childhood heroes (Luke, Han, and Leia) “failed” (and I still don’t completely like it), but I think it definitely opens the universe wider, and I really want to see more Star Wars. I don’t think I want to see more Skywalker family drama.

Perfectly fine too. But if you like SW, the Clone Wars and Rebels is pretty good (especially later seasons of Clone Wars). I’ve watched them with my kids, and we still really enjoy them.

I am hoping when Rebels ends, the next show focuses on Luke, Leia, and Han between ROTJ and TFA so that I can still see them heroic…

Rebels and Clone Wars tv shows are, per Disney. All books/comics that have come out since Disney bought SW are canon also. All other shows, books, etc, are not (but sometimes, people sneak good bits and pieces of the old canon back in with new things).

From a SW nerd, but one without enough knowledge to be a pedant…

That made me chuckle.

I did a similar thing with mathematics with my kids. I didn’t worry about teaching facts like 1+2 = 3, but we did play “sugar packet math” at restaurants while waiting for our food to arrive. Questions like, “How many are in this pile? How many more do I need to get to 7 packets?” teach those ideas first by making…

While I agree that the teacher is an ass (and I am a teacher myself), in the current district in which I teach, a 63 would have been considered failing about 5 years ago. We changed over to a 60-70-80-90 policy and added +/- grades at the time. It depends upon the school’s/district’s grading policies, and while I…

I think that was intentionally done to show the use of a trope.

That was the quip m son made when I brought up their chemistry!

I liked Soundgarden and Chris Cornell before he died, but I didn’t listen to him often. Now, I listen to his quite often (mostly on YouTube), and holy crap, I love most everything I hear from him.

I once worked with a student with Tourette’s (the verbal tic kind—he had numerous other tics). Once he got started on a word/phrase, he couldn’t come off of it. Whether it was a comment about his teachers breasts, or that he thought I was gay. He repeated it over and over again, trying to stop.

Thankfully, there has been the same push for STEM activities through meirtbadges and weekend camp outs, and summer camps for the BSA as there has been through GSA. And of course, if you never talked about kinetic energy, friction, aerodynamics, or other physics pronciples, you aren’t building your pinewood derby car…

It is still that way in many of the Troops that I work with.

Thanks for saying this. I have a similar experience with my twin sons, who just earned Eagle 2 days ago!

Maybe, but I don’t think so. It is my opinion, but I think there have always been cops like this all along, but we just didn’t hear about those stories at the time.

I still believe that there are plenty of cops who would behave exactly how you describe. That doesn’t mean they are all good and make wise choices, and…

I think if they are young enough, 2 doses are recommended now. But that still makes it tough.