[wastedyears]

I hated math as a student and I still do today. There is so much absolutely useless information being drilled into student's brains that I'm surprised there aren't any outright riots in the halls. Thankfully I can't remember the names of anything that took up space in my head, because they did exactly that. They taught little useful information when I was in high school. Education is something that has to be fixed the right way, and very soon.

[spacewarp]

And to think, when I was a kid, and doing math, my teacher actually yanked me out of my seat, paddled the hell out of me and told me to sit down and shut up because I happened to have the audacity to correct her when she started drilling into the student’s heads that there were no numbers lower than 0. I said “You’re wrong. What about negative one, negative two and so on?” She pulled me out of my seat, paddled me, and then said “What do you have to say now?” I said “You’re still wrong. It would be almost as bad as if you told them there are no numbers between 0 and 1 or 1 and 2.” She then told me there weren’t, and I said “Oh. I guess then all medication is on a 1 teaspoon basis. No half-teaspoons. Or football is played in one section, no quarters or halves.” I was immediately sent to the principal.

Any reason I hate public school?

Paul