It's news because Israel keeps a standard of living, labor prices, and labor protection laws comparable to those in Europe and the USA. India, on the other hand, will remain poor enough to buy high-quality labor for (compared to US, Europe or Israel) bargain basement prices for another 5-10 years.
30 minutes per day, 4 days per week with a decent diet will bring you down to and keep you at a healthy weight in most cases, but it won't get you the "healthy and fit" look that most people seem to want - so-called "athletic fitness".
I'm surprised we don't segregrate people based on their birthdates yet. What? You mean the massive restrictions on the rights of everyone under 18 aren't segregation?
Who defines the appropriate? I've never met a single person who actually feels they must put on a suit and tie to dress respectfully, but I've met hundreds who call it "appropriate" by some standard other than their own. Everyone feels they have to obey someone else's standard of "appropriateness", but nobody actually cares about that standard. Most people are happy if you just wear clean clothes not explicitly made for anything fun.
Welcome to reality. Here, I've never encountered a militant athiest who bothered to actually meet or talk to religious believers instead of writing us all off as fools.
You sound really nice until you completely fail to propose anything better than current democratic or anarchist models. Anarchy does not work too well, itself; see "Somalia".
I'm not sure who modded this "troll". Whichever mod has a vendetta against me. I logged in to find my last 3 posts all modded "0, Troll".
Let's just can 12th grade and use that money to pay for free preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds! It sounds like a good idea, but I really don't think we need *more* mandatory schooling. In my day, you learned to read in 1st grade, and I see no reason to try and shove that earlier.
I'm currently in my senior year of homeschooling high school. If I really want to get senioritis, I only need to take Physics to get myself into an OK college. If I want a really good/selective college, I should take Chemistry. This winter I shall take classes at the local community college (the signup date was in mid-August, and I was just settling back in from camp).
Thanks to skipping Pre-Calculus (which my best friends, both in high school, agree was a waste of time), I already have calculus roughly equivalent to the AP Calculus AB standard. If I keep studying math, I can take the AP Calculus BC exam in May and hopefully skip intro math classes. If I take the AP in Physics and/or Chemistry, even better. I've also gotten a 5 on the AP Calculus AB exam, know 5 programming languages and program a kernel for a hobby. Yeah, I'm a comp sci nerd.
Other than that, I really only need to document my homeschooled classes. To that aim, I'm taking SAT 2s in Biology and US History. For English, I'll submit a writing sample or a past paper. I can figure out some way to convey how much Modern Hebrew I've learned. Everything else was covered by the 2 years I spent in actual high school.
Let's see where we can cut away classes now. An entire 3 mandatory years of English can go - leading students to literature can't make them enjoy or understand it, and the schools don't teach any real writing. We'll replace it with a one-year course in writing and public speaking, along with an ample supply of interesting reading material for those who want it. A year of PreCalculus gets cut for anyone above the "average" track (read: anyone who would wind up in pre-calc before senior year) on account of worthlessness. 9-11th grade "integrated math" can get cut down to two years if they stop repeating things.
Out of my local curriculum, only the 4 years of science, 3 years of foreign language and 3 of history (2 global, followed by 1 American) seem to survive a test of their rigor. So we can go from 5 year-periods (1 period a day for a year = 1 year-period) of "core subjects" * 4 years = 20 year-periods in all of high school, down to 2 (math) + 3 (history) + 3 (foreign language) + 4 (science) + 1 (Writing and Public Speaking) = 13 year-periods. If we still assume that students must take at least 5 classes a year, we get 2 3/5 years of high school, while leaving room in the schedule for electives.
If we continue to assume an 8-period day with a mandatory health/phys-ed/other class each day (adding another 4 year-periods) and a free/lunch period, we still come out with 17 year-periods / 7 class periods a day = 2 3/7 years. Students only really need 2 years of high school - 3 if they take electives.
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It's news because Israel keeps a standard of living, labor prices, and labor protection laws comparable to those in Europe and the USA. India, on the other hand, will remain poor enough to buy high-quality labor for (compared to US, Europe or Israel) bargain basement prices for another 5-10 years.
That's why this got posted to Slashdot! The OSS community will raise the children.
Last I heard, "imru" was imperative tense. I honestly don't know imperative tense conjugation to singular forms, so I used that.
Also, "tagid" doesn't even seem to come from the same consonant root. Where the hell in alef-mem-reish do you find a gimil or daled?
Yes, we do.
Sí, hacemos.
Kein, anachnu os'im.
Brevity.
30 minutes per day, 4 days per week with a decent diet will bring you down to and keep you at a healthy weight in most cases, but it won't get you the "healthy and fit" look that most people seem to want - so-called "athletic fitness".
Lay not pearls before swine.
I'm surprised we don't segregrate people based on their birthdates yet.
What? You mean the massive restrictions on the rights of everyone under 18 aren't segregation?
It's a fucking miracle! The laws of science aren't supposed to allow it!
Blessed be you, Adonai our God, King of the Universe, who brings forth news from Ha'Aretz.
It's a Jewish in-joke.
"Do memories hinder or help people in their effort to learn from the past and succeed in the present?"
I don't remember.
Slicha, Adoni. The Mossad will see you now. /me cocks Uzi.
It requires that each student must write a minimum number of words in order to graduate from high school.
That rule sucks.
Words are like lines of code: consider each one you type spent, not added.
Some people really think first drafts should be perfect?
What bull! I wrote two drafts of this Slashdot posting before hitting 'Submit'; you have to edit everything.
Yes, you're kid will have sex around 15 or 16.
Get them on Slashdot consistently, and I guarantee they won't.
Who defines the appropriate? I've never met a single person who actually feels they must put on a suit and tie to dress respectfully, but I've met hundreds who call it "appropriate" by some standard other than their own. Everyone feels they have to obey someone else's standard of "appropriateness", but nobody actually cares about that standard. Most people are happy if you just wear clean clothes not explicitly made for anything fun.
Welcome to reality. Here, I've never encountered a militant athiest who bothered to actually meet or talk to religious believers instead of writing us all off as fools.
Ani Y'hudi, v'atah leytzan.
How can you misspell a transliteration from another language?
Fuck, I misspelled "cue." Now I have to commit power-suit enhanced sepuku.
I, for one, welcome our new Shining Gundam overlords.
Actually, some of us young people still value our privacy. We're just nerds because of it.
We're fucking tired of free energy and hovercar posts! Give us real inventions to drool over!
You sound really nice until you completely fail to propose anything better than current democratic or anarchist models. Anarchy does not work too well, itself; see "Somalia".
I'm not sure who modded this "troll".
Whichever mod has a vendetta against me. I logged in to find my last 3 posts all modded "0, Troll".
Let's just can 12th grade and use that money to pay for free preschool for all 3 and 4 year olds!
It sounds like a good idea, but I really don't think we need *more* mandatory schooling. In my day, you learned to read in 1st grade, and I see no reason to try and shove that earlier.
Do you have any idea how right you are?
I'm currently in my senior year of homeschooling high school. If I really want to get senioritis, I only need to take Physics to get myself into an OK college. If I want a really good/selective college, I should take Chemistry. This winter I shall take classes at the local community college (the signup date was in mid-August, and I was just settling back in from camp).
Thanks to skipping Pre-Calculus (which my best friends, both in high school, agree was a waste of time), I already have calculus roughly equivalent to the AP Calculus AB standard. If I keep studying math, I can take the AP Calculus BC exam in May and hopefully skip intro math classes. If I take the AP in Physics and/or Chemistry, even better. I've also gotten a 5 on the AP Calculus AB exam, know 5 programming languages and program a kernel for a hobby. Yeah, I'm a comp sci nerd.
Other than that, I really only need to document my homeschooled classes. To that aim, I'm taking SAT 2s in Biology and US History. For English, I'll submit a writing sample or a past paper. I can figure out some way to convey how much Modern Hebrew I've learned. Everything else was covered by the 2 years I spent in actual high school.
Let's see where we can cut away classes now. An entire 3 mandatory years of English can go - leading students to literature can't make them enjoy or understand it, and the schools don't teach any real writing. We'll replace it with a one-year course in writing and public speaking, along with an ample supply of interesting reading material for those who want it. A year of PreCalculus gets cut for anyone above the "average" track (read: anyone who would wind up in pre-calc before senior year) on account of worthlessness. 9-11th grade "integrated math" can get cut down to two years if they stop repeating things.
Out of my local curriculum, only the 4 years of science, 3 years of foreign language and 3 of history (2 global, followed by 1 American) seem to survive a test of their rigor. So we can go from 5 year-periods (1 period a day for a year = 1 year-period) of "core subjects" * 4 years = 20 year-periods in all of high school, down to 2 (math) + 3 (history) + 3 (foreign language) + 4 (science) + 1 (Writing and Public Speaking) = 13 year-periods. If we still assume that students must take at least 5 classes a year, we get 2 3/5 years of high school, while leaving room in the schedule for electives.
If we continue to assume an 8-period day with a mandatory health/phys-ed/other class each day (adding another 4 year-periods) and a free/lunch period, we still come out with 17 year-periods / 7 class periods a day = 2 3/7 years. Students only really need 2 years of high school - 3 if they take electives.