Just for fun…

[Spiky Bugger]

@Spiky Bugger I love you, but sometimes I'm glad we aren't related. There seems to be a gene for bizarre disasters in your family's tree.

Well I love you back!

You know what’s weird? (Besides the newsworthy weird stuff.) Back in high school, I decided I didn’t
LIKE science. To me, once things got figured out…like molecules…they kept poking around and got to atoms. I figured they’d never stop, so learning any of this was a waste of time because I’d just have to learn more.

But these days, my life is all about medical stuff…you know…SCIENCE stuff. I wish we could just get healthy diagramming sentences and parsing nouns. THAT doesn’t keep changing!

 

[JackieOnLine]

Ok, everyone and their loved ones need to feel better soon!

yes, including you!

these days, my life is all about medical stuff

at least you can write about it with competence and zest!

and you have family to give/receive support

 

[Larra]

You like grammar the way I like math. Geography changes. History, or at least our knowledge and/or interpretation of history, changes. Math doesn't change. Once you learn it, that's it.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I like math that way, too. (And I married a man who was, at the time, innumerate.). But I never got very far up the math food chain.

At one point though, I was given a general math class of 8th graders who were, I later discovered, expected to fail at most everything. I REALLY worked that class. End of year they were tested for HS math placement. Only six or seven qualified for Algebra I and maybe 15 qualified for Pre-Algebra. A few were still going into general math.

I went crying to the Dept Chair saying that I had ruined their lives because only six qualified for Algebra.
Chair: You mean six qualified for PRE-Algebra?
Me: No. Six in regular Algebra and 15 in Pre-Algebra.
Chair: From YOUR math class?
Me: Yes…I’m SO sorry…
Chair: For what? I’ve never had ONE general math kid qualify for Algebra I. How did you do that?
Me: I guess I didn’t know they weren’t expected to qualify for Algebra…so I just beat it into them?