Ohio mayor warns school board: Resign or face charges for 'child pornography'

[Cow Poke]

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Your mind does an amazing job of "making it work". Kinda like the eye "fills in" the hole that you should see when you look at a wall, because your eye has a blind spot where the optic nerve is (or something like that)

They taught us in basic police school - especially at night, don't look directly at the object you're wanting to see -- look slightly left and right, because your brain will "fill in that hole".

[rogue06]

The following sentence discussing an antagonist in the anime Seraph of the End using a flamethrower on workers who were dismissed could be problematic :

Ferid fried the fired staff.


I'm sure far less silly examples could be thought of that would offer a similar challenge.

[Sparko]

it's an fart.

fify n/c

[Cow Poke]

What does ANY of this have to do with NYC babykillers pretending to know Texas Law?

Yes, I know, wrong thread

[tabibito]

What does ANY of this have to do with NYC babykillers pretending to know Texas Law?

Yes, I know, wrong thread

Well - the current topic has as much to do with Texas law as had the original topic, so there is that.

[Juvenal]

That, my friend, would be an inference, not an implication.

I considered both and went with the stronger rhetorical value.

Most of us had a high school guidance counselor.
It is assumed that part of his/her job was to help us decide what we want to be when we grow up.

Sometimes I forget some folks had normal childhoods, growing up with parents, not being on your own at 13, that sort of thing.

College should - in some real way - prepare us for life, and the high school guidance counselor helps with that direction.

Unfortunately, there's a push to go to college even where there's no desire or interest on the part of the young person.
That's what I was referencing.

I also support publicly-financed trade school apprenticeships. I'm no economist, but the numbers I've run strongly suggest it's better for the economy as a whole for young kids to be putting the money they'd otherwise be using to pay off education debts into something more financially stabilizing, like a mortgage.

Meanwhile, both of my daughters home-schooled, and when they got to college, the red-headed kid absolutely excelled. She already knew how to do bibliographies, citations, effectively utilize the tools in the library, set out a study plan and stick to it....
She was amazed at the overwhelming number of kids in her college freshman class who didn't have a clue, or even know where to start.

My other daughter thought college was a place to run wild and do fun stuff, and dropped out, but managed to come back at a later date.

I've seen 'em flunk out, I've seen 'em ask for me for recommendations to medical school. Kinda fun to call one of my students "Dr." for a change. I know just north of squat about high school or high school guidance counselors, but if I had one wish, it'd be for them to make kids they're sending to college take their college prep classes in high school.

There's no excuse for sending a kid to study STEM in college with three semesters of prerequisite courses hanging them back from starting their programs.

If you're studying engineering and your first math class in college isn't calculus, it'll never show up for credit on your transcript. No, not even elective credit. Same same for every math class you take to get ready for calculus.

And we AGREE that a college degree isn't suitable for everyone - which is why I always say, IF you are going to college, take the basics first at a junior college or (the rest of the world calls them something else) to see if it's a fit.

*ouch*

I'd much prefer you were giving the advice to take the basics first in high school. Most junior colleges don't have the breadth of instructors needed to handle a fully transferable freshman program, and I've seen kids leaving the offices of undergrad coordinators in tears when they find out how many classes they spent the last two year's taking were for nothing. Florida's tackled that issue head on, with standardized course designations to make any MAC2311, for instance, count for credit as MAC2311 at any other Florida college, but they're still asking for trouble if they want to finish up out of state.

By the way - my red-headed kid got her first degree in Police Science, because she thought she wanted to be a cop like her daddy, then got another degree in nursing because she figured out what she wanted to do in life. Her degree in law enforcement actually was a very good framework for her work with people in crisis.

Good for the redhead!

Speaking of college kids, next lecture starts in two hours and two minutes. Time to prep up.

[rogue06]

I considered both and went with the stronger rhetorical value.



Sometimes I forget some folks had normal childhoods, growing up with parents, not being on your own at 13, that sort of thing.



I also support publicly-financed trade school apprenticeships. I'm no economist, but the numbers I've run strongly suggest it's better for the economy as a whole for young kids to be putting the money they'd otherwise be using to pay off education debts into something more financially stabilizing, like a mortgage.



I've seen 'em flunk out, I've seen 'em ask for me for recommendations to medical school. Kinda fun to call one of my students "Dr." for a change. I know just north of squat about high school or high school guidance counselors, but if I had one wish, it'd be for them to make kids they're sending to college take their college prep classes in high school.

There's no excuse for sending a kid to study STEM in college with three semesters of prerequisite courses hanging them back from starting their programs.

If you're studying engineering and your first math class in college isn't calculus, it'll never show up for credit on your transcript. No, not even elective credit. Same same for every math class you take to get ready for calculus.



*ouch*

I'd much prefer you were giving the advice to take the basics first in high school. Most junior colleges don't have the breadth of instructors needed to handle a fully transferable freshman program, and I've seen kids leaving the offices of undergrad coordinators in tears when they find out how many classes they spent the last two year's taking were for nothing. Florida's tackled that issue head on, with standardized course designations to make any MAC2311, for instance, count for credit as MAC2311 at any other Florida college, but they're still asking for trouble if they want to finish up out of state.



Good for the redhead!

Speaking of college kids, next lecture starts in two hours and two minutes. Time to prep up.

One of the problems with taking college prep classes in High School is you have far too many High Schools that don't even furnish a basic High School education.

Here In Georgia we have the HOPE scholarship that helps pay the tuition of anyone who has a B average or better in High School. Now aside from how this led to grade inflation as many a C was changed to a B because the teacher didn't wasn't to be the one to keep some kid from going to college, you have valedictorians from some urban High Schools going to college only to find themselves in remedial classes for the first quarter or longer just trying to get enough of an education to take college classes.