The problem is that students often make a poor long-term choice. This has been mentioned before, but until our culture starts to emphasize earnest education over amenities, students will continue to choose the nice-looking campuses with amenities and 'naturally select' those over more modest, but strong educations.

Then again, that shift is already beginning to occur, with a growing emphasis on technical educations and warnings against taking out debt for a fun four year 'all-inclusive resort' experience. Forgiving student debt and making college free, however, could quickly create significant bloat and could easily reinforce the Tindr approach to choosing a college education.

The same issue applies with family unit wage earning and has probably been discussed elsewhere with regard to the gig economy:

If an individual family decides to have both parents work, they begin to reap the benefits of two incomes, with the few added costs of such a choice, like childcare, transportation cost increase, etc. Overall, however, they have an advantage over all the families who are single-earner households. That is, until everyone in a local economy does that, then housing and other goods inflate.

I believe it was on a previous discussion about these businesses that I saw someone draw the same conclusion about the gig economy: people working another side job, in addition to both spouses working, get an advantage, only so long as everyone else isn't doing something similar.

The end result, either way, is that prices inflate, and people are working even harder to stay afloat. Especially if they made poor economic decisions to earn that extra income (paying exorbitant childcare costs, or incurring more in vehicle expenses than they earn from driving).

Actually, this is relatively debunked and shouldn't be used to over-generalize the population.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but allowing that x/x can be simplified when x=0 allows for strange equalities to emerge, basically that 0=1 or that 1=2. (This also serves as a proof by contradiction to the ability to simplify x/x for x=0) Consider the following reference: https://www.math.toronto.edu/m...

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this yet, but allowing that x/x can be simplified is dangerous ground because it allows us to prove equalities that are not true. (From another standpoint, then, we can prove by contradiction that x/x does not work for x=0.) For reference, consider the following site about the proof that 1=2. https://www.math.toronto.edu/m...

Not entirely correct: As a math teacher I have found that Desmos (.com or app) is a remarkably good graphing calculator for mid-range algebra 2 students. When the alternative is an $80-120 graphing calculator, it has its appeal. Khanacademy.org has extreme value, when used for extra practice, and digital copies of texts are more prevalent, though current methods of DRM make them often more costly over time than the physical version, if not more up-to-date.

This is absolutely true, and the main reason that while I recognize the potential value of cell phones, I generally see greater problems in the classroom with their use.


One thing that hasn't been alluded to yet that I think is VITAL: my students exhibit high levels of technology dependence. Their every spare moment automatically drags them to their device. This is leading to a growing situation where they will entirely ignore a class-wide announcement unless they have been called to attention BY NAME. It's reaching greater levels of absurd every year.

On the contrary: I teach in a public High School. These students most likely learned these habits at public school (or at home): Don't do your work most of the trimester? Turn it all in at the end! Don't want to be polite or act like a human being? Trash talk the teacher, they're paid to help you. This isn't always true: I've had many success stories with lower-level students, but there is no way that making the schools entirely state-funded will magically make it possible to just kick out poorly-behaved students. That said, there should be a process he should be able to go through. At least at the High School level there are options for the worst-behaved students to go through a behavior review process.

So the CEO of Firefox got fired for voting a certain way (I honestly don't remember the specifics, only that it had to deal with his vote on an sexuality issue), but the CEO of Apple is applauded for taking a stand on the other side of the issue in a way he believes is right. Is the only difference the public's opinion of whether the guy is a bigot or a hero? Or is there more to it than that?

While technically correct in a literal sense, the phrase is colloquially understood to also mean reduced (fractionally) by a factor of 3. When they say three times less, they are in fact trying to communicate a third, and it's generally understood.

You might as well argue the semi-anually vs bi-annually case. the semi and bi prefixes have lost meaning because of continued colloquial use.

Even one textbook I teach from defines semi-monthly as twice a month and semi-weekly as once every two weeks. The terms have less of a literal meaning and more of a context-specific meaning.

Actually, it makes perfect sense he's a language arts teacher:his major focus might have been incorporating large vocabulary words in a written context, rather than trying to make the novel accessible to the reader in an already reader-centric market.

Except that only those in possession of recordings are able to bring the truth to light. This means that bad things can still happen, but only those with the recordings get to do anything about it. I agree, though, that prisons should have pervasive recordings that are audited by an external source.

Am I the only one worried by the fact that I'm not perfect? That is, the more cameras we have, the more likely someone will have a recording of us doing something that, though maybe not illegal, might be damaging to our reputation. As much as I like the idea of police having record of altercations, what happens when I do make a mistake and someone recorded it? There are so many rules and laws, that if a person is recorded constantly, their imperfections (real or perceived) can be recorded and then selectively used against them.

If you are confused because it can't travel further, it's the end result of wind resistance on the projectile.

I've recently tried out World of Tanks. It's fairly simple, but has some strategy to it. Been enjoying it.

Thank you for your response, I feel it summed up an important part of the issue fairly well!