Anon describes experience
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Was your spanish teacher called Senór Chang by chance?
No, but he was definitely a white dude who probably smoked a joint before class.
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I can believe this. Not fake, not gay. The math teaching of the past was so dumb. Even now, I have 2 kids who never got a bad math teacher and still love math; two who did (one teacher who actually thought women ought not get higher education) and those two do not
And a good math teacher is a treasure beyond words. Mr. Galing, if I could have had you teach my kids through high school I would have taken them anywhere.
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This shit happened to me, but in kindergarten. I grew up in a bilingual house. I spoke English and Spanish equally. I went to the school with my mom to get assessed. She said I could read and was bilingual. The teacher didn't believe it and made me read from one of their books.
To add insult to injury, when they had Spanish class, the fucking teacher taught us that "purple" was "porpuda" and "lizard" wad "lizardo." Shit like that... My mom put me in another school.
I'm 48 and still laugh about lizardo. How absolutely stupid.
When I went to Tenerife, the chip and pin machine said "numero secreto correcto" and I'm still not convinced Spanish is a real language.
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I still remember my teacher bitching me out in front of the class when we were learning negative numbers because when he asked me how I figured out the correct answer I said that the positive numbers and negatives cancelled each other out. Like -4 and positive 5, the negative 4 cancels out 4 on the positive side and you are left with 1. Maybe that wasn't the correct verbiage but it gave me the correct answer every time. He was a dick about correcting me though.
You understood numbers intuitively and that piece of shit could not even comprehend that someone can understand it this way.
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So, there is some jank in how Microsoft handles the desktop that results in more shortcuts on in using more resources. It always has to have all the images and icons loaded at all times.
But with the increases in baseline RAM I'd be shocked to find anyone with more than 4GB experiencing slowdown from it, even in the most extreme situations.
Similar thing with trash/recycling bin. Are you already low on storage space? Then yeah, clean it so your PC has enough spare space to work, or to use for swap (effectively extra, slower RAM by way of using drive space). But that was also far more likely to be a problem on the old drives measured in MB.
Yep, too many icons was a thing in Win95 in 98. Can't remember if XP cared.
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There’s not much worse as a kid in a learning environment, or even with your parent(s), to be shut down painfully for being right about something that they don’t know or don’t think you know. Really crushes the satisfaction of nailing a win and turns it into bitterness and starts the lifelong process of keeping your mouth shut when you’re right and letting others win when wrong.
So the school did its job just right then. High five, I quietly let people be wrong too.
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I had a math teacher who yelled at me for solving equations with a different method. I didn't understand his explanation so I asked my brother for help. He taught me a more advanced method taught in a higher grade, which was easier, but I was not supposed to know that method yet. The teacher told me to redo everything but when I asked for help he told me to ask my friends. So, I just copied everything from my friend and then submitted it.
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Flashbacks to shitty math teachers. It was either this or "WHY DON'T YOU KNOW THIS YET!?" I quit participating and made a C for the rest of my academic career including college. I also got "I don't how you got this answer, but it's the right answer." . Hell I don't even know how I got that right answer but I refused to ask questions.
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All my teachers were fine with it honestly :3 at least after primary school.. if you corrected them they might've given you extra credit
But the general notion of saying something correct and people saying that that's wrong, and not knowing why still stands
You had an extraordinary school experience.
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Ah I recall my "science" teacher when I was 13 explaining to us that all materials expand when heated and shrink when cooled.
So I ask how ice floats, or how ice cubes swell above the tray.
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(I don't think that was your teachers point at all, but) couldn't the different formulas have produced different rounding errors due to floating point percision?
Doubtful, but if anything mine would be more accurate. Fewer calculation steps to lose precision on. I think most spreadsheet software fudges floating point precision anyway. A computer programmer may accept that 0.1+0.2 is not 0.3 but an accountant or mathematician would not be having it.
I think she was just shit at maths tbh. As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that's not the case at all.
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(I don't think that was your teachers point at all, but) couldn't the different formulas have produced different rounding errors due to floating point percision?
Excel has a 15 point float, a quadrillionth, which should be enough for anything you were using excel for.
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You had an extraordinary school experience.
Maybe :3 I think my school wasn't that highly ranked nationally, but I don't know how others were in terms of the teachers so can't compare.. It definitely had a lot of other issues tho haha
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School really does prepare you for real life sometimes, it seems ...
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I actually kind of believe it, because kindergarten/elementary teachers are often from arts & humanities backgrounds, and it's not at all rare to find one who never passed a high school STEM class and therefore prone to get flustered easily when called upon to explain the reasonings behind even simple things.
Can you fail all your STEM classes and graduate high school?
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Doubtful, but if anything mine would be more accurate. Fewer calculation steps to lose precision on. I think most spreadsheet software fudges floating point precision anyway. A computer programmer may accept that 0.1+0.2 is not 0.3 but an accountant or mathematician would not be having it.
I think she was just shit at maths tbh. As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that's not the case at all.
As a kid you sort of assume all the teachers know more than you about every subject, and that’s not the case at all.
same for chatgpt
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Excel has a 15 point float, a quadrillionth, which should be enough for anything you were using excel for.
yeah because excel does rounding stuff automatically for you
try entering
0.1 + 0.2 - 0.1 - 0.2 == 0.0in any programming language of your choice and see what happens. -
Fucking hell I feel validated rn, I had a similar experience at that age but it was in language/reading class. It's so frustrating to know that you are correct but you lack the terminology/ability to properly convey why you are right.
if you had had the terminology to say it, they would probably just have gotten angry anyways over being exposed in class.
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I had an elementary school teacher who insisted that gravity came from the earth's rotation, and that if the earth stopped spinning there would be nothing holding us down.
wrote last edited by [email protected]funnily enough i've heard people say the same thing irl
it kinda baffled me how people would even think that way
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Yep, am autistic, can confirm.
As with Union of Kobolds, I eventually got into the 'gifted' program... they even had me as a 2nd and 3rd grader basically being an unpaid tutor for 4th and 5th graders, sitting in the hallway, helping kids with reading difficulties (in all liklihood, undiagnosed dyslexia) read through kids books.
But, there's always classes and teachers not part of the gifted program, and they're often difficult and wrong and rude for no reason.
I still remember a chemistry teacher getting very angry with me for even bringing up quantum scale electron clouds as a model of atoms.
Not allowed to go beyond the Rutherford-Bohr model, even in discussion, always dismissive and rude, incapable of saying just 'yes that is a more accurate model, but it is far too complex to go over without understanding Rutherford-Bohr first'.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Union of Kobolds
wait is that a thing?
oh wait nvm that's another user's username
