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#26 LifeKnight

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Posted 25 April 2004 - 04:11 PM

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Originally posted by FlamingGodSmiley:
God bless your teachers LK.

Actually I'm homeschooled. No real teachers. I post, but not here that often. Er, until now. Posted Image

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Posted 25 April 2004 - 09:33 PM

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Originally posted by Pufer:
Heh.

Down here, any idiot who manages to get a GED or graduate HS at all with any GPA gets a full-tuition, eight-semester (plus $1000 towards a ninth semester) scholarship to any school in NM. Additionally, all you have to do to keep it is manage to maintain a 2.5GPA as a full-time student every semester during that time period (something which I maintain that I could do in my sleep).

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Is it just me, or does that suggest that your schooling system is very, very poor?

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Originally posted by LifeKnight
Actually I'm homeschooled. No real teachers. I post, but not here that often. Er, until now.

You know, this really does explain a lot...

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Posted 25 April 2004 - 10:21 PM

Including his poor social skills.

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 10:06 AM

He used to go to a regular (though private, I believe) school, until the yexpelled him for unstated reasons.

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#30 LifeKnight

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 03:52 PM

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Originally posted by lotsofblackflags:
He used to go to a regular (though private, I believe) school {Catholic --LK}, until the yexpelled him for unstated reasons.

Not quite true. I was half-expelled, half-left on my own accord. And the reasons were...well, it had something to with my political/religious views.

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#31 Pufer

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 05:25 PM

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Originally posted by Sundered Angel:
Is it just me, or does that suggest that your schooling system is very, very poor?

Which part? The public schooling system is pretty pathetic but that is really par-for-the-course up here in the good ol' US of A. Economically, the whole damn state is very poor (usually around 45-49th or so in the nation) even though we currently have the second strongest state economy in the US (which is what makes it so that we can have such a stupidly-easy scholarship plan, that and the NM lottery) which means that the school systems tend to be very poor as a result (comparatively). If you're talking about UNM, it's certainly not as difficult (I would imagine) as what you're going through up in New Haven, but it is a State University after all. It still manages to be enormously difficult for most people, the key here is that I'm not most people (I can memorize lectures (you always hear about photographic memories, I have a audio-recording memory), which helps out quite a bit on tests, in addition to having an extremely high IQ (that was more of a personal comment in my above post, not a reflection on the actual educational system 'round these parts)).

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 08:10 PM

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Originally posted by LifeKnight:
Not quite true. I was half-expelled, half-left on my own accord. And the reasons were...well, it had something to with my political/religious views.

Like a raving liberal? I wouldn't know what pitiful state the schools are here, because I go to a private school. Posted Image

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 09:17 PM

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Originally posted by Pufer:
Which part? The public schooling system is pretty pathetic but that is really par-for-the-course up here in the good ol' US of A. Economically, the whole damn state is very poor (usually around 45-49th or so in the nation) even though we currently have the second strongest state economy in the US (which is what makes it so that we can have such a stupidly-easy scholarship plan, that and the NM lottery) which means that the school systems tend to be very poor as a result (comparatively). If you're talking about UNM, it's certainly not as difficult (I would imagine) as what you're going through up in New Haven, but it is a State University after all. It still manages to be enormously difficult for most people, the key here is that I'm not most people (I can memorize lectures (you always hear about photographic memories, I have a audio-recording memory), which helps out quite a bit on tests, in addition to having an extremely high IQ (that was more of a personal comment in my above post, not a reflection on the actual educational system 'round these parts)).

-Pufer

I meant the schooling system. The US is the only nation I know of where "school" can mean "University". Crazy country... I particularly like it how the myth of "equal opportunity" can flourish in a land where equal education is a ridiculous ream.

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#34 ShinobiGatakana

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Posted 26 April 2004 - 09:27 PM

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Originally posted by Sundered Angel:
I meant the schooling system. The US is the only nation I know of where "school" can mean "University". Crazy country... I particularly like it how the myth of "equal opportunity" can flourish in a land where equal education is a ridiculous ream.

Riciculous ream is exactly what it is. Free education? Hahahahaha, we still have to pay for it. And Universities charge you up the ass for near high school classes. Thats democracy in action for ya folks. Gotta be politically correct....

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#35 lobf

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Posted 27 April 2004 - 01:25 PM

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Shinobi said:
Thats democracy in action for ya folks.

Hm. Too bad that's not a direct result of a democracy.

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Posted 27 April 2004 - 08:44 PM

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Originally posted by ShinobiGatakana:

Riciculous ream is exactly what it is. Free education? Hahahahaha, we still have to pay for it. And Universities charge you up the ass for near high school classes. Thats democracy in action for ya folks. Gotta be politically correct....

So - are you against bad education, or merely against paying enough taxes for a good one?

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#37 FlamingGodSmiley

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 01:06 AM

Oregon schools suck ass. Why? because our legislative branch is all republican, and the morons won't increase taxes. Even though oregon has bad schools, I go to a Science and Tech magnet school in my district. (about 150 kids), and since we are all (in general) more intelligent then everything else in the district, which means higher CIM scores, which means more money for our school. So we still seem to get adequate funding for whatever we need even though school funding is in the toilet.

I can't remember where, but I read that the portland school district considers Algebra to be a higher math class. That's how bad it is.

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#38 ShinobiGatakana

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 06:49 AM

So, for school today I'm up at 4:30 a.m. to go to school. I'm going to leadership camp at Herlong Mil. Depot for the day. Talk about being dead tomorrow....

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#39 Trah

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 07:48 AM

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First off:

I'll bet you have.

I'll have proof by Friday. I haven't had time to post any pictures because of actual work. You can view the historic event (me getting work in Australia) here: [url="http://"http://www.zoxler.net/aviation.html"]http://www.zoxler.net/aviation.html[/url]

Edit: you know its time for sleep when you type: "Ill have proof tomorrow by Friday" reread your post and decide it makes perfect sense.....

Edit: I should go visit SA at Yale when [url="http://"http://www.lehighsports.com/sports/football/schedules/"]Lehigh Plays Yale in football next fall[/url] Posted Image

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#40 Azeroth

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 07:52 AM

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Originally posted by FlamingGodSmiley:
I can't remember where, but I read that the portland school district considers Algebra to be a higher math class. That's how bad it is.

For what grade is Algebra considered a higher math class? The school GD and I go to considers Algebra a high enough math class if you are in sixth grade. For Ninth grade, Geometry Honors is the high math class.

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Originally posted by ShinobiGatakana:
So, for school today I'm up at 4:30 a.m. to go to school. I'm going to leadership camp at Herlong Mil. Depot for the day. Talk about being dead tomorrow....

Shinobi?...Leadership Camp?
I'm frightened....

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#41 lobf

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 08:24 AM

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Shinobi?...Leadership Camp?

He's been failing for the last three years.

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#42 Pufer

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 09:31 AM

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Originally posted by ShinobiGatakana:
So, for school today I'm up at 4:30 a.m. to go to school. I'm going to leadership camp at Herlong Mil. Depot for the day. Talk about being dead tomorrow....

What, they going to shoot you? Posted Image

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 11:50 AM

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Like a raving liberal? I wouldn't know what pitiful state the schools are here, because I go to a private school.

Actually it was a private Catholic school. I have never touched a public school and never will in my life. I have JC instead. Posted Image

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 11:53 AM

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Originally posted by lotsofblackflags:
He's been failing for the last three years.

I protest to your addition of my name to somebody else's quote. This was obviously a personal assault from you, trying to frame words on me that I didn't say in order to slander my reputation. It couldn't have been accidential, "Azeroth" and "Avatara" don't have any letters in common, and they don't even have the same number of characters! You are clearly mistaken if you think I would say something that Azeroth would also say.

Now, back on topic: Shinobi is in a leadership camp?

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 11:54 AM

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I have never touched a public school and never will in my life. I have JC instead.

Because that obviously is what public schools are like in real life. I sense you're not going to college either, unless you shoot for one of those homeschooled BSes.

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 01:05 PM

Av: Sorry about that, I'll correct it.

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#47 GandalfDaddy

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 05:40 PM

What if azzy and avvy are the same person!

Lifeknight, from what I hear homeschoolin' turns you into a person with no people skills.

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 06:36 PM

Actually, when I was homeschooled, I think I actually improved my people skills. By A LOT.

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Posted 28 April 2004 - 11:50 PM

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Originally posted by LifeKnight:
Actually it was a private Catholic school. I have never touched a public school and never will in my life. I have JC instead.

The Public school system is vastly superior to the Catholic school system in every possible way. While social content really doesn't matter (who gives a damn about social skills, anyway?) I can't see how you can ****-off too much while being schooled at home. You're not going to need any of the crap you're learning anyway (well, on second thought, you might still be getting necessary math and history at your age, but my point stands for a couple years down the road), so why make it difficult on yourself?

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Posted 29 April 2004 - 02:36 AM

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Originally posted by Pufer:
The Public school system is vastly superior to the Catholic school system in every possible way.

-Pufer

I know you aren't supposed to post with the sole purpose to say "me too", but, I think that (Pufer's post) is the truest thing I have read in a while.

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