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>^,,^< Miracle wrote:
> (Sorry for not snipping, but this is cool stuff!)
I'm snipping.
> Wow, that's a very different system indeed- so many different
> types of schools.
Yup. And, obviously, there are ways of shifting upwards as well. After
the CITO exam (which limits where you can go) if you're assigned to
MAVO, you could continue to MBO, and from there move up to HBO, and once
you've got your first year of that you can start a university Bachelors
program, or you can finish your Bachelors and do the Masters at a uni.
All very interesting, though fortunately behind me. Of course, I went
straight to the VWO (which is, by the way, further subdivided into
Atheneum and Gymnasium, the latter including ancient Greek and Latin)
> Of course, some things are different here as you
> go from state to state. In Georgia we went by a 4 quarter system,
> which were school periods of nine weeks. Out here in Arizona they
> use a 3 semester system, which is 16 weeks each. Go figure.
My school periods are officially semesters, but in reality quarters of
10 weeks each, of which 7-8 are for working and the rest for exams and
project assessments.
> In Georgia, grades 7-9 are junior high school, while here they
> are "middle" schools. And in some other states, high school includes
> grade 9.
>
> So I suppose the whole world is doing its own thing as far as
> schooling goes! And I quit in grade 10, as I already knew everything.
>
> Yes, I really did quit, but later took the test to get my equivalency.
That's good.
> I find it amusing that I now teach kids who are high schol graduates
> who can't read or write. Hmmm, not amusing exactly.....more along
> the lines of totally disgusted. I mean, I even understand algebra, but
> these kids can't divide 2 into 4 and get a correct answer.
At the HBO, in higher education, someone had to divide 15 by 4.
Obviously, this gives a fraction, and one way to calculate it would be
to divide 16 by 4 (=4) and subtract 1/4, giving 3 and 3/4.
A student actually managed to write down: I cannot calculate this, as I
am not allowed to use a calculator.
The teacher is rather sarcastic in general, but was downright venomous
talking about this.
Oh, speaking of venomous teachers:
http://www.nebulous.nl/misc/Berkeley_Laptop_Thief.mp4
(and while I'm pimping video's, two important ones:
http://www.nebulous.nl/misc/Torn.wmv
http://www.big-boys.com/articles/pokerroom1.html
Both funny, non-disgusting)
> Which brings me to another point- almost every person I correspond
> with online is a foreigner- someone who was born and lives outside
> the U.S. Why? Because their grammer, spelling, and puctuation are
> decent. Even if it's in another language. And they can think without
> AOL telling them what they know.
I always enjoy correcting people's spelling, with them then saying
> The other folks I tappity-tap with are well-educated, like Troy and
> Bryan. And oddly, I only communicate with 3 women online- but
> all three share common interests and type properly.
> I'm not a snob by any means- I don't care what folks look like
> one bit, or how they dress, etc.. But I suppose I have a distaste for
> folks who can't flip to "adult" when they're online. I love being an ass
> in here at times- it's so totally me! Good fun and silliness are a huge
> part of my Usenet activities, but sometimes I want to talk like an adult.
I like form. People say that it's the content that matters, but that's
bullshit. If your goal is to communicate, then you want to be sure
people understand you, and the way you do that is through proper
spelling and the Bad Boys of Punctuation).
> Oops. Oh well, we'll just call the above "Chapter Two" of the book
> I seem to be writing online..........
Say, there's a thought.
--
Frank
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