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There's always Texas...

It's one of the very first things we learn.

Awesome. McDonalds could become a one stop for everything you need.

"I'll take a Big Mac meal with a Coke, an 8ball and a 9mm please."

"Would you like to biggie size any of those today, sir?"

Not concerned about spelling of the subjects you don't know either, huh?

Although it is curious: are you sure those are mandatory? In my (public) high school, calculus and Latin were not mandatory classes. You had to take 2 years of one language, but you had the choice of Latin, Spanish, or French. Calculus was an optional senior-level class; only those on an "advanced" track took it. Otherwise it was Algebra (freshman), Geometry (sophomore), Algebra II/Trigonometry (Junior), Pre-Calculus (Senior). Or you could double up in junior year and take calculus in senior. Or be motivated like I was and take AP Calculus in your final year (Calculus A AP test, not Calculus B).

Chatted with some old friends who still live in my home town recently and they said the school system has become progressively worse since our time in it. According to them it was because: A) More and more students added each year (by comparison, my senior class had 250 graduates; five years later they had 450); B) No additional aid to build new classrooms or hire new teachers; and C) it seems like an abundance of drugs snuck their way into the school. In my class we would hear about people doing cocaine from time to time; now it's common to walk into a bathroom between classes and see people smoking crack in the bathrooms. Could be exaggeration, of course, but it seems a lot worse now.

Ho hum, idle musings.

Edited, Feb 15th 2011 3:00pm by LockeColeMA

While this is true, the teacher is by far the PRIMARY provider, and if the argument is that private schools provide a better curriculum and textbooks (which for you it doesn't seem to be), I doubt very much that there's anything to support that, or that it would be a substantial difference. Teachers can easily accommodate for dated texts these days... anyway, these aren't especially relevant arguments to the discussion at hand, I don't think.

@Kavekk: Well, aren't we pleased with ourselves? Fancy yourself the local insult comedian? I'll be sure to take notes when you actually say something that elicits a smirk. And I'm a good sport-- it's nothing to do with me being the target. Go **** a cactus? That's some inventive **** right there-- I bet nobody's ever said THAT on the internet before.

See, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm here for my amusement, not anyone else. But you are trying, and that's just sad. Keep on trollin', /b/tard. Or maybe spare me the off-topic non-arguments and try to actually say something worth reading. Hell, if you're going to try to be controversial, at least up the ante. It'd be a waste of time to ridicule you with the standard fare around here.

Whatever you do, try not to be so boring at it.



Calculus and Latin are not mandatory in TN, not at all. Advanced Algebra and Geometry are the highest level required math classes, last I checked, and Latin is rarely even offered. Most students satisfy their foreign language requirements with Spanish or French.

No. This is what you said:




In essence, you're saying they don't need an education because they're not leaving the "family farm." Keep up, Varus.

Or just admit you're full of ****.

I'm thinking of a high school education.

Look, man, you're the one trying to pretend that the education rates in TN don't matter because we're heavy on the agriculture. This was in an effort to defend the insult you threw at NY with their rates. Just admit you're making **** up.