To be honest, that is your best bet. Find someone who knows how to teach, and understands the material. Get that person to catch you up.

A tutor can move at exactly your pace, and answer exactly your questions. This is A LOT faster than anything self guided. I'd do it myself if I was in your area.

I'm a teacher, okay really I'm a tutor, working at a tutoring centre. I do have a teaching degree.

100% the biggest problem with the education system: teachers. I started reading one of the articles and it just seemed a long winded way to point out what to me, is obvious.

Most of the kids I get are afraid of math, and I have little doubt that this is mostly due to teachers in the lower grades who are afraid of math.

Absolutely some students will be slackers, some will work hard. But most students are in the middle ground here, a good teacher can make the class "not boring", and get a good bunch of those kids to work hard enough to actually learn things.

Also worth noting here: the grades being talked about are those where it is not yet reasonable to lay the entire burden of education on the student.

Scenario 1: unlikely. I'm a tutor, have been for years, the number of people that have low test grades, but can actually do the stuff I've run into? none. Usually, they understand the material given, but have some gaps in background or something to that effect.

If that is not the case, there is likely a significant learning disability which should have been noticed by somebody and acommodated for before university.

Scenario 2: That's why there is a "drop-add deadline". There are plenty of easy courses to choose from.

Scenario 3: If an employer hires me because I got a great mark in my CS degree (or simply got it), then I can't actually code worth a hill of beans? That's just bad all around. Oh, and I suspect the employer will no longer hire from that school.

Grades don't mean anything in the real world. All those people who told you that grades are important? they lied. The only thing grades are good for is going on in school. The knowledge you gain, and the piece of paper representing it is what gets you on in real life.

Absolutely wholeheartedly yes. The Moon is without a doubt the most interesting thing to look at with anything that might be classed as a "small" telescope. The sun is a close second ... if you know how. DON'T look through the telescope with your eye (obviously). Aim the scope at the sun using it's shadow, then put a white screen (say, a piece of paper) a few inches from the eyepiece, get the image focused, hopefully, there are some dark spots (sunspots).

A little place called Sault Saint Marie in Ontario has lots of Italians, therefore lots of places that make great pizza, and almost no chains. They are, for the most part, great!

Graphics are like the special effects of a movie. Absolutely they shouldn't be the "point" of the game, or movie. But if the graphics (or special effects) are well done, and convincing, they can really help the immersion experience.

hmmm, yes, I agree completely. I answered (heart) based on the organ that most living things have, or the thing that evolved first. The heart, or at least some method of distributing nutrients allows other areas of an organism to specialize in non-nutrient gathering rolls. However, the skin would indeed come before that even, just to hold the insides in.

I'm looking for teaching work ... ie: work where I'm in the public eye (parents). You can be darn sure one of them is going to do a search for my name at some point ... and god help me if they find anything wrong with my online image. In this case, I think the employer would not be doing their job if they didn't do some sort of check for me online before I get hired.

When I went to teacher's college, I got a cell phone because I was going to be back and forth a lot with the practice teaching sessions. As a result, I didn't bother with a land line, and still haven't, so I have 1 phone, and a job. Nobody official around here seems to complain about the lack of land line. (I live in a house with my wife who also only has a cell phone.)

"it has already supplanted the "Brittannica" as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it contains much that is apocryphal, or at least wildly inaccurate; it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two respects. First, it is slightly chearper" ... and the next part really doesn't apply ...