Not allowed to comment because I start using bad words.

@Mandatory Carry the one pic has a fullmetal alchemist reference. This last one just gives me heartburn. These people are possessed

Hmmmm... I'm missing it.
OTOH, it's not like I can quote every line. 😅

Should I go to the Emory campus and write president trump in chalk?

Lol

Write it in poop.

So they're forced to touch your poo.

Why Emory?

@grant because they pissed themselves when someone did it during the election. Lol

^what?

@Salacious Swanky Cat okay, I was going to suggest going to Morehouse College an writing its okay to be white.

Lol

So I know what they're trying to do there but it isn't a sensible lesson really. We also had estimates as part of math and I thought that the way the questions were laid out then was dumb as well

I mean, I understand that you want the kid to demonstrate they understand what they are doing, hence then demand for showing work, but that's to demonstrate that they aren't getting the right answer through a method that is blatantly wrong. Failing to round isn't blatantly wrong.

that question sucks. couldn't you just say 75 is between 28 and 103 so it is reasonable

They were supposed to "estimate" and instead did the math for the correct answer... Which was considered (at least partially) incorrect.
I had a lot of similar encounters with math teachers when I was in elementary school

There's worse tbh

I had one where there wasn't really any work to show if you could multiply in your head, but the teacher insisted we made this 1/4 page monstrosity for work showing, so I got half marks that whole unit

Can't even remember what the unit was, just that it was some dumb make-work bullshit on the marking end

I'm pretty sure I was in high school before I ever learned what you were actually expected to do when the problem said 'estimate.' I'm not sure if that says more about me or school.

Humans do not need to be taught to estimate though, we do it all the time. It is so stupid they try to teach it.

Have you seen flower math? They were teaching kids at my school how to divide and multiply using a flower array (which took forever to draw) instead of a the traditional lay out they would be using for the rest of their lives in Algebra.

I can't say that I have. I don't think that stuff has been inflicted on my kids. Either that, or I'm teaching them a better way to do things when I help them.

Yeah that's some common core shit isn't it? They're focusing on visual learners now

I'm at the point where if it sounds stupid, I just assume it's common core.

Yeah, I was homeschooled thankfully, so I got the classical education.

In Washington, homeschooled students are required to pass 11 subjects, public school kids only have 8 subjects in common core, so a rounder education was great.

Heck, they fired a teacher at a local school because she was teaching handwriting after they finished the core part of the English course for the day because handwriting is not a part of common core and considered a waste.

Apparently when I was in school, they told my mom that teaching handwriting wasn't important, because everyone would write on computers, which was stupid even for the nineties.

I use handwriting today as part of secretarial work.

It's certainly not an un-needed skill.

Although soon I think it will be rare enough that "Fluent in cursive" may become a qualification on folks' linkedin.

"able to read cursive" is supposedly already a thing

If "able to write cursive" is also a thing, I need to update my resume.

Unless writing where someone other than me can read it is required.

Or rather, it's at least a boomer meme that you can write things in cursive and the youths won't be able to read it

One of my room-mates has to ask me to read anything that is in cursive.

https://twitter.com/nanimachines/status/1128630580294377473

So looked at a brochure for Rbc or known as Royal bank of Canada. There is a grammar error.