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Comment Re:It's got nothing to do with that (Score 1) 97

It depends on where you live. US education is heavily decentralized, in rural kentucky it was still possible until the early 1980s to have 1-12 (kindergarten would have been a pipe dream) in the nearest town. Most districts consolidated first the high schools (9/10-12) and then middle schools (6/7-8/9), but I'm 45 now, I attended a half-day K-8 in my local town. Our local population supported about 1.5 classes (~40-50 students) per grade, so we had a bunch of splits
half day Kindergarten
regular 1st
High 1st/Low 2nd graders
regular 2nd
regular 3rd
high 3rd/low 4th
regular 4th
regular 5th

at 6th grade, a close by k-5 elementary joined with our population
high 5th/low 6th
2 rooms of regular 6th
3 rooms of 7th
2 rooms of regular 8th
1 room of the highest math aptitude ones, we got pre-algebra in 8th grade instead of their general math and our reading was generally higher so we might have read 1 or 2 extra books over the year in our english class
The 4 K-8 schools went to a common 9-12 high school, so that would lead to a 9th grade math breakdown like:
2-3 sections of honors algebra 1, we would net out 1 class of 12th grade AP calculus AB from this
2-3 algebra 1 these kids would end in trigonometry and geometry in grade 12
2-3 pre-algebra these kids would end in algebra 2 and basic geometry in grade 12
2-3 general math these kids would end in algebra 1 and basic geometry in grade 12
The district I grew up in has changed since then, they've got a common 7th-8th building now and the 9th graders attend an isolated building of their own (7-12 is on the same giant physical campus in the middle of our county)

Larger urban districts like the one my kids attend now have opportunities to slot and track high math aptitude earlier, there are some 6th graders that take pre-algebra so their end target would be trig as sophomores and AP Calculus BC as seniors

Comment Urban permaculture (Score 1) 186

Is the answer. Hydroponic roofs, green walls, can reduce energy usage (due to increased insulation of the plants themselves), make growing food more local (grow the food where the people are, instead of trucking from many miles away) and actually look better than traditional landscaping around brutalist architecture.

Comment Also not unprecedented- this is Galileo (Score 1) 272

Had to change the subject line- the parent is correct, the right way to deal with this sort of thing is to *show your evidence* and take the lumps in criticism to your methodology one by one.

Galileo made the same mistake. When he didn't have enough evidence to prove his theories (because his circular orbits were actually wrong, we now know) he wrote a very insulting and imaginative dialogue explaining his ideas- while making certain church officials look stupid. In response he was tried before the Inquisition and, in one of those examples of the Inquisition being more merciful than the modern court system- was found guilty, sentenced to a lifetime house arrest in a 47 room villa with a fully equipped laboratory, with his only time out to keep going to Mass and attend church. And losing his ability to publish papers.

Somehow I don't think the current DC court is going to be so generous to either side.

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