Talent schools do exist, a lot of them are private though.
Sounds expensive and out-of-reach for many students.
Being in the top 10% of your math class doesn't make you a math prodigy.
It does in the little world that is a 6th-grade classroom.
Smart people who act "cool" tend to get applause for their "talents" , not bullied
First impressions are difficult to replace though, especially in an environment (like middle school) where students want to fit in. If a student is labeled "nerd" or "geek" on day one, it's not easy to change the label.
In life in general, sometimes it's better to fit in than be the nail that gets hammered
"Fitting in" should not be a reason to NOT learn and develop though. Besides, in the United States at least, we're very big on promoting the "everyone is special in their own way" message.
If the kids actually cared about excelling in their subject of choice, they wouldn't care about being bullied,
If a talent keeps a student out of social cliques, that's one thing, but being put down day after day makes it very difficult to accept that the bullying may not matter in the long run.
Last, but not least, AP Calc has yet to help me in life, AP chem... kind of:)
Why rewrite and re-revise 1500 high-level calculus homework questions when thousands of these have already been published over and over and over and over? There's an easy solution: use old ones.
Sure it did. And if Slashdot's archived their stories like they should, we could all see how it originally became aware on August 29th, 1997 and Slashdot already had an article from 1997 about this. And yes, I know that the TV show changed it.
The TV show didn't change it. They're on the Duke Nukem Forever schedule.
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Talent schools do exist, a lot of them are private though.
Sounds expensive and out-of-reach for many students.
Being in the top 10% of your math class doesn't make you a math prodigy.
It does in the little world that is a 6th-grade classroom.
Smart people who act "cool" tend to get applause for their "talents" , not bullied
First impressions are difficult to replace though, especially in an environment (like middle school) where students want to fit in. If a student is labeled "nerd" or "geek" on day one, it's not easy to change the label.
In life in general, sometimes it's better to fit in than be the nail that gets hammered
"Fitting in" should not be a reason to NOT learn and develop though. Besides, in the United States at least, we're very big on promoting the "everyone is special in their own way" message.
If the kids actually cared about excelling in their subject of choice, they wouldn't care about being bullied,
If a talent keeps a student out of social cliques, that's one thing, but being put down day after day makes it very difficult to accept that the bullying may not matter in the long run.
Last, but not least, AP Calc has yet to help me in life, AP chem... kind of :)
This one I agree with. :)
Why rewrite and re-revise 1500 high-level calculus homework questions when thousands of these have already been published over and over and over and over? There's an easy solution: use old ones.
It doesn't matter what had it first. I just want to use whatever currently has it best.
Sure it did. And if Slashdot's archived their stories like they should, we could all see how it originally became aware on August 29th, 1997 and Slashdot already had an article from 1997 about this. And yes, I know that the TV show changed it.
The TV show didn't change it. They're on the Duke Nukem Forever schedule.
Amen. Mind if I quote you on this?
What makes this so cool? There are so many other, more efficient, ways of doing something so simple.