I'm a high school physics teacher, and I use my TI-85 every day. I've had that calculator since 1994, and it's the one calculator I never let the students borrow when they forget theirs. The kids laugh when they see the calculator and find out its as old as they are. Then, they are amazed, and a bit jealous, that it will do unit conversions and has the built in ability to solve polynomials.
Teachers cannot establish, maintain, or use a work-related website unless it is available to school administrators and the child's legal custodian, physical custodian, or legal guardian. Teachers also cannot have a nonwork-related website that allows exclusive access with a current or former student. Former student is defined as any person who was at one time a student at the school at which the teacher is employed and who is eighteen years of age or less and who has not graduated.
All the news stories about this bill seem to leave out that last sentence.
They have a blog post about the change with a string of angry comments. You could try leaving a comment there. It will probably do as much good as anything else.
I teach at a high school, and I've had other teachers tell me that it is parents who have brought Facebook problems to the teachers attention. These are parents who are being responsible by requiring their child to give them their Facebook password so the parents can keep an eye on what's going on there. When the parent sees something they think a teacher needs to know about, they send us an email. I don't know of teachers or administrators who spend their time cruising Facebook to look at their students, they could be out there, but who has that kind of time?
So, does anyone really think that the environmentalists who blanch at the thought of an oil refinery being built will cheer an ethanol equivilant facility?
The magnitude (really, the visual magnitude) is a measure of how bright the object appears in the sky, not the absolute brightness of the object. Think of it this way. The Sun has a magnitude of -26.7. Vega has a magnitude of 0. Vega is a much brighter star than the sun, but because of the differing distances from the Earth (and therefore, the observer) Vega appears much dimmer than the Sun.
You are thinking of the absolute magnitude. Typically, absolute mangitude is refered to as such while the visual magnitude is refered to as magnitude.
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I'm a high school physics teacher, and I use my TI-85 every day. I've had that calculator since 1994, and it's the one calculator I never let the students borrow when they forget theirs. The kids laugh when they see the calculator and find out its as old as they are. Then, they are amazed, and a bit jealous, that it will do unit conversions and has the built in ability to solve polynomials.
All the news stories about this bill seem to leave out that last sentence.
They have a blog post about the change with a string of angry comments. You could try leaving a comment there. It will probably do as much good as anything else.
I teach at a high school, and I've had other teachers tell me that it is parents who have brought Facebook problems to the teachers attention. These are parents who are being responsible by requiring their child to give them their Facebook password so the parents can keep an eye on what's going on there. When the parent sees something they think a teacher needs to know about, they send us an email. I don't know of teachers or administrators who spend their time cruising Facebook to look at their students, they could be out there, but who has that kind of time?
Unfortunately, the one you rightly call BS is the one most likely to happen.
After watching part of each of them (part was all I could get through) my only thought was, "That's the best they've got?"
I wonder if they have some privacy issues about the content of their private meetings showing up on the internet?
So, does anyone really think that the environmentalists who blanch at the thought of an oil refinery being built will cheer an ethanol equivilant facility?
The magnitude (really, the visual magnitude) is a measure of how bright the object appears in the sky, not the absolute brightness of the object. Think of it this way. The Sun has a magnitude of -26.7. Vega has a magnitude of 0. Vega is a much brighter star than the sun, but because of the differing distances from the Earth (and therefore, the observer) Vega appears much dimmer than the Sun.
You are thinking of the absolute magnitude. Typically, absolute mangitude is refered to as such while the visual magnitude is refered to as magnitude.