I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
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28 Engineering Memes for Fixing Your Problems With Duct Tape
Engineers are a different breed. They’re incredibly logical thinkers but aren’t always the best at simple things. It might take them 4 hours to decide which spatula to buy on Amazon but boy will it be the best spatula out there. They will find the most complicated solution to the simplest problem. But we need …
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Math teacher only allows students 1 bathroom pass per week, gives them extra credit if they don’t use the restroom at all: ‘Both the rule and the reward are problematic’
When you’re a teenager, you don’t always have control over whether you can go to the restroom when needed. Both my minimum wage service job and my high school teachers made me ask permission to use the restroom, and if they said no, then I couldn’t go! I had a friend who peed on the …
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Employee notices payroll error, HR insists that $26.38 an hour is a 10% raise from $26.35 an hour: ‘If your HR department can’t do simple math, you might want to think about working somewhere else’
If you’ve been in the workplace long enough, you’ve probably encountered some less-than-brilliant HR professionals. They say, «I’m here for you no matter what,» but at the end of the day, they’re here for the company first and you second. They routinely ask that midwestern employees not say «guys» because it’s not inclusive but turn …
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9th grade class boycotts the state Algebra exam required for graduation, responds with apathy when teachers threaten to call their parents: ‘I don’t care’
I do not envy the burdens that teachers bear. Getting an apathetic group to start caring is exceedingly tricky, and that seems to be the situation many modern teachers are in. According to r/Teachers, modern K-12 students do not care about doing a good job, parents perpetually blame the teachers for their kids’ failures, and …
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‘STEM majors when people don’t immediately consider them superior’: Math student gets ‘ew’ed on dating app for mentioning math, gets roasted for being upset
In college, you hear the same thing about your major repeatedly. Theatre majors get used to jabs about having to wait tables postgrad, and business majors have heard jokes about their classes being stupidly easy more than they can even count. But there’s one subject that gets insulted more than basically any other, and that’s …
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Homeschool mom asks niece to teach illiterate 9-year-old daughter who can’t add single digit numbers: ‘I don’t think 4 hours once a week is enough at all’
One of the biggest arguments coming from the pro-homeschooling camp is that kids shouldn’t have to sit and be quiet for 7 hours a day. It is a little insane that we ask 6 and 7-year-olds to conform to a schedule that mirrors that of a full-time job. While it’s highly demanding in concept, it’s …
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‘My 19 year old can’t spell or write’: Unschooling mom with illiterate kids calls herself a failure, the internet agrees
I have always been a little suspicious of alternative methods of schooling. I know that there are some parents out there who are completely competent at teaching their kids from Kindergarten to 12th grade, but I highly doubt that’s the majority of homeschoolers. Most of the time, kids who do their schooling at home would …
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Pi Day Memes For Math Fans Who Can Count Beyond 3.14
Oh, Pi Day; I had no idea I’d still celebrate you five years after taking my last mathematics course. I don’t mean to diminish the impact of this year’s Pi Day, but it seems like it peaked as an «internet holiday» over ten years ago. Maybe it’s because I was in middle school and on …
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«I would lose my mind here»: Incompetent teacher claims 1 divided by 0 is zero, principal backs her up on incorrect answer
Math is one of those subjects that has a distinct right and wrong. In English class, you can write an essay that argues basically anything you want as long as you can use the text to support your arguments. In art class, there is so much room for creative liberties, even if you’re given a …
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