Ty
@darkpandaaah.bsky.social
Make it make sense. Anyway, so I think I know where the deepest flaw in the education systems lies: priorities.
January 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Make it make sense. Anyway, so I think I know where the deepest flaw in the education systems lies: priorities.
But this tidbit could wait until somewhere in the middle of my third decade walking this planet!
January 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
But this tidbit could wait until somewhere in the middle of my third decade walking this planet!
They wanted to teach me how to read a language where -ough has like 9 different pronunciations; and the names and capitals of the states based on their SHAPE! At high speed, no less! And they dinged me for mixing up Wyoming and Colorado!
January 11, 2025 at 9:18 AM
They wanted to teach me how to read a language where -ough has like 9 different pronunciations; and the names and capitals of the states based on their SHAPE! At high speed, no less! And they dinged me for mixing up Wyoming and Colorado!
I seriously learned “Sept”ember is ninth month, not the seventh; and “Oct”ober is tenth, not eighth, but had to find out the century rule from social media????
January 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I seriously learned “Sept”ember is ninth month, not the seventh; and “Oct”ober is tenth, not eighth, but had to find out the century rule from social media????
I memorized that unhelpful “30 days has September…” rhyme that was more work than just learning which months are which, but not a one sentence long exception to the hour long demonstration about the reason I’m not eating cupcakes with my friends on Friday???
January 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I memorized that unhelpful “30 days has September…” rhyme that was more work than just learning which months are which, but not a one sentence long exception to the hour long demonstration about the reason I’m not eating cupcakes with my friends on Friday???
You’re telling me I can learn the days of the week that involve Latin roots, Roman gods, Greek astronomical history, and dash of Norse mythology to get the particulars straight, but not the century rule for Leap Years??
January 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
You’re telling me I can learn the days of the week that involve Latin roots, Roman gods, Greek astronomical history, and dash of Norse mythology to get the particulars straight, but not the century rule for Leap Years??
I was learning the days of the week, the months, etc. I was literally learning all about stuff related to this, but not this?
January 11, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I was learning the days of the week, the months, etc. I was literally learning all about stuff related to this, but not this?
I didn’t even learn it when it was applicable to my life! 2000 had all this bogus Y2K hype, and nobody so much as mentioned the once-in-4-century calendar fluke. WHYY??? I know it’s a slightly complicated rule. But I want you to understand I was a wee kindergartener.
January 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I didn’t even learn it when it was applicable to my life! 2000 had all this bogus Y2K hype, and nobody so much as mentioned the once-in-4-century calendar fluke. WHYY??? I know it’s a slightly complicated rule. But I want you to understand I was a wee kindergartener.
I bet you didn’t even notice, even though many of us were paying very close attention to clocks AS it occurred. So to recap: 1896 yes, 1900 NO (the exception), 1904 yes, 1996 yes, 2000 YES (the exception to the exception), 2004 yes. I didn’t learn the truth until WELL into adulthood.
January 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
I bet you didn’t even notice, even though many of us were paying very close attention to clocks AS it occurred. So to recap: 1896 yes, 1900 NO (the exception), 1904 yes, 1996 yes, 2000 YES (the exception to the exception), 2004 yes. I didn’t learn the truth until WELL into adulthood.
Don’t get me started on Leap Seconds, they literally just throw one in whenever the missed time adds up to it and that’s not even predictable. It’s happened repeatedly in your lifetime (most recently Dec. 31, 2016).
January 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Don’t get me started on Leap Seconds, they literally just throw one in whenever the missed time adds up to it and that’s not even predictable. It’s happened repeatedly in your lifetime (most recently Dec. 31, 2016).
The extra isn’t quite a quarter of a day and (insert boring math) the century rule gets it back in track. Except it doesn’t actually, but the difference is then small enough you have to go to hours, minutes, and seconds to make it up.
January 11, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The extra isn’t quite a quarter of a day and (insert boring math) the century rule gets it back in track. Except it doesn’t actually, but the difference is then small enough you have to go to hours, minutes, and seconds to make it up.
This is because the whole explanation about the year having an extra quarter of a day we need to account for is… wrong since it’s over simplified.
January 11, 2025 at 9:09 AM
This is because the whole explanation about the year having an extra quarter of a day we need to account for is… wrong since it’s over simplified.
I was livid at this betrayal of information. Friends, I’m here today to tell you, because I know most of you are blissfully unaware, Leap Years are NOT every four years. Leap Years, occur every four years EXCEPT when the year is divisible by 100, UNLESS that year is also divisible by 400.
January 11, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I was livid at this betrayal of information. Friends, I’m here today to tell you, because I know most of you are blissfully unaware, Leap Years are NOT every four years. Leap Years, occur every four years EXCEPT when the year is divisible by 100, UNLESS that year is also divisible by 400.
I vividly remember learning about Leap Days because it unexpectedly (at least to me) shuffled my birthday the following week off to a weekend, so I didn’t get a class party like my brothers (who have birthdays the same week as me (and to add insult to injury one of theirs got moved off the weekend).
January 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I vividly remember learning about Leap Days because it unexpectedly (at least to me) shuffled my birthday the following week off to a weekend, so I didn’t get a class party like my brothers (who have birthdays the same week as me (and to add insult to injury one of theirs got moved off the weekend).
Some of it doesn’t makes sense why it was taught wrong in the first place, to be honest. AND it appears many of us never got the review lesson we should have. Prime example: Leap Year is ever four years. NOPE.
January 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Some of it doesn’t makes sense why it was taught wrong in the first place, to be honest. AND it appears many of us never got the review lesson we should have. Prime example: Leap Year is ever four years. NOPE.
So making me learn an arbitrary list of paintings in chronological order was just torment for torment’s sake. Meanwhile, you got any more books on classical music? Cuz I read these… and those… yeah, that pile there too. Isn’t this kind of the point of electives in the first place?
January 11, 2025 at 9:03 AM
So making me learn an arbitrary list of paintings in chronological order was just torment for torment’s sake. Meanwhile, you got any more books on classical music? Cuz I read these… and those… yeah, that pile there too. Isn’t this kind of the point of electives in the first place?
I can understand going back and getting into the political winds leading up to the American revolution, despite not being able to keep my eyes open listening to it, because of that whole history repeating itself thing. But also, I didn’t care about the French renaissance then and I don’t care now.
January 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
I can understand going back and getting into the political winds leading up to the American revolution, despite not being able to keep my eyes open listening to it, because of that whole history repeating itself thing. But also, I didn’t care about the French renaissance then and I don’t care now.
Some of it seems really dumb to be reviewing. I think that’s mostly topics that weren’t of much interest in the first place though. If we were into it, we probably really liked the deep dive reviews.
January 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Some of it seems really dumb to be reviewing. I think that’s mostly topics that weren’t of much interest in the first place though. If we were into it, we probably really liked the deep dive reviews.
just think maybe we could have gone another direction with that one, is all I’m saying.
January 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
just think maybe we could have gone another direction with that one, is all I’m saying.
Which begs the question why we didn’t learn to do taxes as seniors at the latest, but instead I “learned” a bunch of stuff about how to manipulate graphs that I (even having multiple scientific degrees) have never used since???
January 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Which begs the question why we didn’t learn to do taxes as seniors at the latest, but instead I “learned” a bunch of stuff about how to manipulate graphs that I (even having multiple scientific degrees) have never used since???
Some of it’s pretty obvious and reasonable, like math. You review the old stuff, tack on a few new concepts vaguely related to each other, then give it a couple summer months to marinate. So “now I know math.” Well, yes and no, but mostly no. And then repeat about annually.
January 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Some of it’s pretty obvious and reasonable, like math. You review the old stuff, tack on a few new concepts vaguely related to each other, then give it a couple summer months to marinate. So “now I know math.” Well, yes and no, but mostly no. And then repeat about annually.
(I think this is exactly why so many of us are “gifted and talented” burnouts btw.) Much like how I’ve been the same height since I was 11, I’m a bit miffed by this realization. But I guess I’m kind of wondering like how wrong is too wrong?
January 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
(I think this is exactly why so many of us are “gifted and talented” burnouts btw.) Much like how I’ve been the same height since I was 11, I’m a bit miffed by this realization. But I guess I’m kind of wondering like how wrong is too wrong?
Bad news for the ADHDers and some of the other ND folks. That prefrontal cortex was never going to get formed anyway. They probably could have told us stuff at like 12 that they waited until we were like 20 to let us know.
January 11, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Bad news for the ADHDers and some of the other ND folks. That prefrontal cortex was never going to get formed anyway. They probably could have told us stuff at like 12 that they waited until we were like 20 to let us know.
get it, you gotta match the info to the level of development in the prefrontal cortex, maturity, understanding of the world around us, building blocks of education, blah blah blah.
January 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
get it, you gotta match the info to the level of development in the prefrontal cortex, maturity, understanding of the world around us, building blocks of education, blah blah blah.
I’m definitely not trying to knock teachers here, in fact y’all will probably find the most entertainment value in this diatribe. This is really an issue I have with the system at large.
January 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I’m definitely not trying to knock teachers here, in fact y’all will probably find the most entertainment value in this diatribe. This is really an issue I have with the system at large.