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Teacher Sells Ads On Tests
Tom Farber, a calculus teacher at Rancho Bernardo high school in San Diego, has come up with a unique way of covering district cuts to his supplies budget. He sells ads on his tests. "Tough times call for tough actions," Tom says. The price of an ad on a Mr. Farber Calc test is as follows: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, and $30 for a semester final. Most of the ads are messages from parents but about a third of them come from local businesses. Principal Paul Robinson says reaction has been "mixed," but adds, "It's not like, 'This test is brought to you by McDonald's or Nike.'" I see his point. Being a local business whore is much better than being a multinational conglomerate whore.
Perfect place for Cliffs notes ads, eh?
"Next test, use our notes and suck less!"
*snicker*
A Human Right
I put my copyright notice next to every answer.
Doesn't work so well on the scantron forms though.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
If you have three Pepsis and drink one, how much more refreshed are you?
This is a great idea! Young people LOVE taking tests and the next time they go past Bennys Burger(TM) they are guaranteed to think that is THE place to go! Soon methods like trying to associate your brand with cool music or a sports star will be history.
Sponsored by Bennys Burger Inc(TM).
I wonder if you could take out an "ad" with certain calculus notes buried within it...like having the Ideal Gas Equation or Hooke's Law as a tiny part of a graphic... ^_^
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This test brought to you by CDABCCDACDBBACCADBC and the bonus question is 42.
"To err is human, to mod Funny divine."
Bad prescedant?
So... how bad were the budget cuts in *your* school?
Hell, just sell the ANSWERS to the test questions...more straightforward and popular I would guess.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
is it like an american airline passenger flight takes off from New York travelling 430 mph with 300 passengers who booked their holiday to exciting London with expedia.com Meanwhile a Virgin Atlantic flight takes off from Heathrow travelling at 550 mph.....
I know I should really hate that he's doing this, but I don't. It's kind'a nice.
Sure beats what my EE lab prof did... he stapled McDonald's applications to a final and shouted "None of you will ever be electrical engineers! Yer' gonn'a need that last page..."
Man, what a bastard.
Too bad the end is a very scary place:
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What country did you say you're from again?
whoosh
And assuming the person that ate the Baconator didn't have a heart attack on the way up the ladder.
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
As soon as I can download cut-out overlay patterns from Adblock...
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I thought you were adding some perl, man !
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
"If because of your teachers' responding to budgetary shortfalls you are developing a calculus, ZAPP'm, with...
Ad-Subtract?
Now, Deluxe Edition: Add-Subtract"
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
So... how bad were the budget cuts in *your* school?
Pah, let me tell you.
We had to write uphill, both ways. And we only had ink every 3rd monday, the rest we had to pretend. And by God, if we pretended wrong, we were beat to an inch of our life, then ten more inches.
In the winter we had to open the windows to get some heat into the rooms, and our schoolday lasted for 28 hours. When we did math, we had to count on our fingers, and if we counted wrong, they cut one off. Old Joey over there can only count to three, well, if he had a tounge that is. He lost that in the Spelling Contest of '43.
You kids have it easy with your fancy abacuses and shoes and stuff. We had to crawl to school, naked, with 50kg of rock in our backpack, and our school road went over three mountains and under four rivers. And not those small hills you got nowadays, they were 5000m straight up, and 7000m straight down on the other side.
And you know what? We liked it that way!
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
A water tank on West Street has shutoff valves produced by Wilson Valve Company, which leak water at a rate given by the formula:
r = w * .0001/sec
where w is the volume of water currently in the tank. If the tank is filled to its full capacity of 8000000 liters at the beginning of the week and left alone for a full month, how much water would be saved by using shutoff valves from Morrison Valve Company, which have a leak rate of only (r = w * .000025/sec)?
Bow-ties are cool.