The Idiot Ranting Thread

[SlowPokemon]

Minnesota

[Waddle Bro]

q: have you learned the alphabets yet

[mikey]

what's an alphabet

[Roz~]

My boss legit yelled at me because I called in sick at work. Hmm ok next time I'm just gonna barf at work and try to make sure that everyone gets sick too. I need a new job. -_____-

[Mashi]

Well, as an ex-high school student...

I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever.  I don't take no stock in mathematics, anyway.

[FierceDeity]

Plus, when you're the only person in your precalc class who can do 33-16 without a calculator, there's GOT to be a problem.

If your class isn't doing derivations, then I'm already disappointed.

[mikey]

Nope sorry.  We're doing stupid stuff with polynomials...  We're literally doing the EXACT SAME STUFF AS LAST YEAR in Adv. Algebra II...  Like Descartes' Rule, finding the asymptotes, etc.  So yeah, people are stupid.

[Bubbles]

I'm in Honors Algebra II and we're already more than a quarter into the school year and still doing basic algebra (radicals, quadratic formula, etc). No one's even having that much trouble with it, so idk what they want. I'm just wondering how the regular classes are ever going to get to anything

[K-NiGhT]

So this morning my mom woke me up at 7:00 A.M. and told me that I had a doctor's appointment at 7:30. I reminded her that I had Jazz Band, and she just said, "Oh, I guess you'll have to miss it sorry." So I was a little miffed because I wasn't going to be able to get to Jazz Band.

It gets better. Once I got to school and tried to explain to my director why I wasn't there, he blew a gasket. "well why don't you have a note from the doctor what doctor is even open at 7:30 A.M. i'm supposed to be featuring you this year do you have any idea how bad this looks you're a senior start acting like one" and I was || THIS close to punching him.

(the lines are supposed to represent my fingers showing how close I was to punching him.)

so uh that's my story hope you enjoyed it.

[blueflower999]

I'm in Honors Algebra II and we're already more than a quarter into the school year and still doing basic algebra (radicals, quadratic formula, etc). No one's even having that much trouble with it, so idk what they want. I'm just wondering how the regular classes are ever going to get to anything

This is the way it was for me too. Don't worry, you'll get into logarithms and conics at the end of the year and those are much more interesting.

[Bubbles]

My teacher is pretty annoying too though. She's told us at least two times now that she's not going to teach us a certain thing because "its too hard" or she "doesn't like it", while the other teachers teach their students. And from what I've heard from other classes, she's skipping even more than what shes telling us

Honestly if we have to wait that long to get to something new I'd rather have it all crammed into Algebra I and not have to take II at all

[Ruto]

What's even worse is our school is like in the top 20 for Minnesota testing levels...

Minnesota

Michele Bachmann

My boss legit yelled at me because I called in sick at work. Hmm ok next time I'm just gonna barf at work and try to make sure that everyone gets sick too. I need a new job. -_____-

Sneeze onto something everyone touches and then tell them they have something in their eye right after they do.

[Zunawe]

If your class isn't doing derivations, then I'm already disappointed.

I don't actually believe that precalc is supposed to get into derivatives (assuming that's what you meant by derivations). The most that I can see is the power rule, but even the limit definition seems a little advanced for a precalc class to me. It's supposed to cover things like limits in a way that one could understand them on the level required in calculus without learning any calculus.

If you meant derivations as in proofs, then ignore my statement and I agree.

[Jub3r7]

An idiot contest? Finally something I have a chance of winning.

[FierceDeity]

I don't actually believe that precalc is supposed to get into derivatives (assuming that's what you meant by derivations). The most that I can see is the power rule, but even the limit definition seems a little advanced for a precalc class to me. It's supposed to cover things like limits in a way that one could understand them on the level required in calculus without learning any calculus.

If you meant derivations as in proofs, then ignore my statement and I agree.

Haha, nope, didn't mean derivatives XD yeah by derivations I essentially meant proofs, although they're technically different processes (at least, in the way that I've been taught).