well.. at least she is focused on her goal..

''Ography"? is it pornography? :v

Pzkpfw-IVH said:

''Ography"? is it pornography? :v

Geography

If I had such a record for when I was younger it would have been:
Passed for everything except P.E and English.
Then BAM, age 16:
English: Top consistent scores, still failing P.E.
Making me run 1 mile is like asking me to jump into a volcano, I can't run, all I do is static motion.

I did rather well in PE, although only in the areas that involved throwing things or pummeling my classmates.

Disturbed my teachers somewhat, apparently.

"Science"?
What is that (which country)? Don't they separate between biology, chemistry, and physics?

Provence said:

"Science"?
What is that (which country)? Don't they separate between biology, chemistry, and physics?

In the united states at least, Elementary and Middle school from my own personal experiance with Public schooling is just generalized "Science" and doesn't get seperated into Categories like Biology and Chemistry untill highschool and College.

And Baker looks like shes 6 years old here so, yea.

Tetsamaru said:

In the united states at least, Elementary and Middle school from my own personal experiance with Public schooling is just generalized "Science" and doesn't get seperated into Categories like Biology and Chemistry untill highschool and College.

And Baker looks like shes 6 years old here so, yea.

When I think of that, in Germany (more precise, because every "Land" has it's own system, inBaden-Württemberg) it was the same: In the first four years (it's Elementary School) there is a subject where all three are in one ("Science"). But it gets seperated afterwards (5th class) but as far as I know only in gymnasiums. Realschulen and everything below that don't make that distinction. That could have been changed by now, but in my school time, it was like that.

Tetsamaru said:

In the united states at least, Elementary and Middle school from my own personal experiance with Public schooling is just generalized "Science" and doesn't get seperated into Categories like Biology and Chemistry untill highschool and College.

And Baker looks like shes 6 years old here so, yea.

To be honest, elementary and middle school is kind of a joke here in the US. Probably the only thing you really learn is really basic mathematics and the rest is just a glorified daycare. I often skipped school frequently to go home and study or work on things and I definitely became much more educated than my peers because of that. I think kids really aren't challenged until high school, which is a shame because it doesn't prepare them very well.

79248cm/s said:

To be honest, elementary and middle school is kind of a joke here in the US. Probably the only thing you really learn is really basic mathematics and the rest is just a glorified daycare. I often skipped school frequently to go home and study or work on things and I definitely became much more educated than my peers because of that. I think kids really aren't challenged until high school, which is a shame because it doesn't prepare them very well.

Insert joke about how teaching/politics is the default profession for those who have failed in all else

Funny thing is that in North America the difficulty curve for math is pretty much exponential in high school.

It has an entry point far below Chinese math curriculum... and ends up HIGHER than Chinese math if you take Grade 12 Calculus seriously enough.

Elementary and middle school are supposed to keep everyone educated up to the same level, considering varying speeds of learning, interests and abilities. That's why you learn the very same things they teach you at elementary school but every time with more details.

High school is where things turn from flipping burgers to become a president. AFAIK all schools worldwide work that way. There's also the so called technical education, but that's a different matter.

In the US at the elementary school level science is done mostly to get children interested in science, and covers usually extremely basic things. At the middle school level it's usually an introduction to the scientific method; core concepts of biology, physics, and chemistry; and lastly an introduction to the metric system.

That's at least when I attended school, things of course change and some of that may have been pushed down to lower grades (which has been the general trend as we advance).

There's also the aspect that different areas have different grade breakdowns for school levels. Elementary can be from Kindergarten to grade 6 or Kindergarten to grade 5. Middle school can be grades 6-8, 7-8, or 7-9. High school then from grades 9-12 or 10-12. My own middle school was only 7 to 8. Serving as introductions to the more specialized courses in high school was really the best they could accomplish imho.

School should stop being mandatory past elementary. Those who want to get an education will continue to do so. Saves a lot of grief from everyone involved if a few kids just want to be bums or wannabe gangstas for the rest of their lives.

I dunno, the hormone-enriched age of middle and early high school are right around the time most people really shouldn't be making life decisions.

OOZ662 said:

I dunno, the hormone-enriched age of middle and early high school are right around the time most people really shouldn't be making life decisions.

That's what juvie camps are for.

In my country, in elementary they also just sum them up as Science. In some schools they divide the sciences in the last year or something. Then in high school they will most likely have it divided.

Public elementary to high school here is a joke, though. Private seems nice. I remember being taught multiplication and such in first grade; but then my family couldn't keep paying.

...Public school, last year in high school, I was teaching people in my class how to calculate multiplication with two digits.

They didn't get it.

I don't get them, either.

Shounen_Fake said:

...Public school, last year in high school, I was teaching people in my class how to calculate multiplication with two digits.

Yeah, one thing that drove me nuts in my last year of high school: my on-and-off girlfriend, whom was a massive math nerd and sometimes scoffed at me for only being in Pre-Calculus as she had taught herself high-end college-level stuff two years earlier, was dating a guy so incredibly horrid at it that they created a special "Senior Math" class for him and his friends that taught things like how to multiply single digit numbers and what fractions were just so that they'd get the math credit for the year and not drag the school's graduation rate into Hell's bowels.

Some people are incredibly stupid, some people are crazy, and sometimes the two "love" each other. Also, some sentences are very long.