Millions of American parents have always heard conservatives complaining about Common Core, but never understood until they had to homeschool their kids in the last few months. Five thousand years of doing math one way are out the window thanks to corporate innovation, greed from textbook publishers, and an interest in having good little automatons who can work for the Fortune 500 without competing against them.
FYI, in your Instagram video with the candle blowing lady, the N95 mask she is wearing near the end of your video is a N95 construction mask with vent in the center. It’s not a N95 medical mask.
Anybody remember New Math, back in the 1970s? I liked it 'cause arithmetic was boring. But you need arithmetic. New Math might have worked but it was hard to teach, could be hard to learn, and it went away. (Pretty sure there weren't any New Math candidates though.)
Masks are mandated here but really only when social distancing can't be maintained. Cops are grouchy about being called to tell people to put on masks. They have better things to do. The sad thing is that folks should know better; we're close to NYC, everyone knows someone who has had covid or has died of covid. "I hate everybody," says a friend, and sometimes I agree with her.
I agree about masks, Erick. Until you're in a county that's reached Phase 4, if you're in an indoor public space, or an outdoor space where you can't socially distance, have your mask with you and put it on. If not, enjoy the air unfiltered by cloth or paper, and keep your hands clean. It's not a huge sacrifice, and it can restart an economy.
The Germans require masks when entering businesses and riding public transport. It allowed them to open their economy the week after Easter and still maintain low numbers of new Corona cases. Isn't maintaining social distance and putting on a mask when entering a store much better than the Democratic alternative of locking down the entire nation again? As long as small county-like regions in Germany have low incidences of new cases/100K-residents/latest-7-day-period, businesses are free to remain open with mask-wearing and social-distancing. The Germans don't lock down their whole country because of isolated Corona hot spots. We shouldn't either. States are far to big a region to impose a one-size-fit-all set of Corona restrictions on everybody because of hot spots within a state.
Common core is another one-size-fits-all solution that doesn't work well for anybody. The reason wheels haven't been replaced by another device is that they do their job. The same is true for math. There is no need to change what is proven to work for what doesn't work as well. Given Hagerty's connection to Romney and his general dislike of common core, it is surprising Trump endorsed him. If there is a push to get Hagerty's past actions known in TN, perhaps it can override the benefit of Trump's endorsement. But the GOP Senate is vulnerable to big-money-backed candidates being pushed against better candidates who support policies in line with the GOP base. I looked at the issues Sethi support and they look golden to me from both a Christian and Trump-policy perspective.
FYI, in your Instagram video with the candle blowing lady, the N95 mask she is wearing near the end of your video is a N95 construction mask with vent in the center. It’s not a N95 medical mask.
Anybody remember New Math, back in the 1970s? I liked it 'cause arithmetic was boring. But you need arithmetic. New Math might have worked but it was hard to teach, could be hard to learn, and it went away. (Pretty sure there weren't any New Math candidates though.)
Masks are mandated here but really only when social distancing can't be maintained. Cops are grouchy about being called to tell people to put on masks. They have better things to do. The sad thing is that folks should know better; we're close to NYC, everyone knows someone who has had covid or has died of covid. "I hate everybody," says a friend, and sometimes I agree with her.
I agree about masks, Erick. Until you're in a county that's reached Phase 4, if you're in an indoor public space, or an outdoor space where you can't socially distance, have your mask with you and put it on. If not, enjoy the air unfiltered by cloth or paper, and keep your hands clean. It's not a huge sacrifice, and it can restart an economy.
The Germans require masks when entering businesses and riding public transport. It allowed them to open their economy the week after Easter and still maintain low numbers of new Corona cases. Isn't maintaining social distance and putting on a mask when entering a store much better than the Democratic alternative of locking down the entire nation again? As long as small county-like regions in Germany have low incidences of new cases/100K-residents/latest-7-day-period, businesses are free to remain open with mask-wearing and social-distancing. The Germans don't lock down their whole country because of isolated Corona hot spots. We shouldn't either. States are far to big a region to impose a one-size-fit-all set of Corona restrictions on everybody because of hot spots within a state.
Common core is another one-size-fits-all solution that doesn't work well for anybody. The reason wheels haven't been replaced by another device is that they do their job. The same is true for math. There is no need to change what is proven to work for what doesn't work as well. Given Hagerty's connection to Romney and his general dislike of common core, it is surprising Trump endorsed him. If there is a push to get Hagerty's past actions known in TN, perhaps it can override the benefit of Trump's endorsement. But the GOP Senate is vulnerable to big-money-backed candidates being pushed against better candidates who support policies in line with the GOP base. I looked at the issues Sethi support and they look golden to me from both a Christian and Trump-policy perspective.