The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

[Kepler]

I seriously think Republicans oppose RCV because they think their voters are too stupid to do it right.

Also, it will hurt extremists. If you saunter into the booth and just put a "1" next to the election denier you have essentially wasted your vote. While the insufferable Brown University Ren Faire assh-le who rank choices from the Communist to the Socialist to the Green and then finally to the Dem winds up electing the latter on the 9th iteration.

 

[Jimjamesak]

I seriously think Republicans oppose RCV because they think their voters are too stupid to do it right.

That’s pretty much what they’ve said up here.

”It’s confusing.”

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Idaho.

let’s all just watch her die eh

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...urce=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

 

[MissThundercat]

Ken Paxton wanted a list of those who changed their gender marker on their license. Sounds like Nazism.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/12...e-allegedly-demanded-list-trans-people-state/

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

I prefer Attorney Generals who aren't corrupt pieces of sh*t. Ken Paxton should be in prison.

 

[Kepler]

Kansas is exactly like I thought it was.

Kansas universities may scrap their algebra graduation requirement because too many students fail the course, NPR Kansas reported.

“About one in three Kansas students fails college algebra the first time around. Some take it several times before they pass. Others get so frustrated that they drop out altogether. And that cuts into university graduation rates,” the news outlet reported Dec. 12.

With that, the Kansas Board of Regents is considering alternative requirements such as statistics and quantitative reasoning under what’s called a Math Pathways program, it added.

“We’re sending the majority of students down the college algebra road, which is really not necessary,” said Daniel Archer, vice president of academic affairs for the Kansas Board of Regents. “It’s not practical. It’s not really needed. And it’s not relevant for their fields.”

 

[walrus]

Kansas is exactly like I thought it was.

Thats an interesting website. People failing Algebra in College has been an issue for many years. Lots of kids take majors based on math requirements.

 

[rufus]

Algebra is a college course? Jesus, I had two years of algebra in high school, and a year of calculus, and this was 40 frickin' years ago. My freshmen year calculus first semester course was basically a repeat of high school, and I aced it with no effort. Now, second semester...........

 

[aparch]

Algebra is a college course? Jesus, I had two years of algebra in high school, and a year of calculus, and this was 40 frickin' years ago. My freshmen year calculus first semester course was basically a repeat of high school, and I aced it with no effort. Now, second semester...........

Yes. At least at NMU when I went through 20 years ago. It was like a rudimentary algebra class that was the floor/requirement for everyone. Same type of algebra class I took in middle school.

My precalc college class was similar to my HS precalc class, so I aced that. Calc was a different story because the professor spent more time explaining where we would fail working out problems instead of teaching us.

That's why I landed in a Construction Management degree (and fell onto the engineering consiltant side somehow in my career).

 

[ScoobyDoo]

Algrebra isn't a college course. Even me who failed to get Calculus done in High School and had Calculus weed me right out of the Engineering program at Minnesota knows that.

 

[dxmnkd316]

Kansas is exactly like I thought it was.

Wait, algebra? Not calculus. Algebra? Like the shit we took in like 7th grade?

 

[Kepler]

Wait, algebra? Not calculus. Algebra? Like the **** we took in like 7th grade?

I posted it because I initially misread it as high schools scrapping the requirement. My brain could, quite literally, not accept it was universities.

 

[Kepler]

Algrebra isn't a college course. Even me who failed to get Calculus done in High School and had Calculus weed me right out of the Engineering program at Minnesota knows that.

Funny-ish story. They covered trig for one month in my HS math class. That month I missed entirely with mono. To this day I still have trouble with trig -- it's the one rudimentary math topic for me where I know all the recipes but I never truly soaked in it and got a comfortable grounding in it. That was really bad timing because I love trig applications in calculus and I love the basic geometry of trig -- it is very beautiful. But it is balancing on a log (so to speak) to this day.

Teachers are important.

 

[Handyman]

When I went college in '98 I had to take a math placement test because I barely passed higher algebra in HS. They were going to make me take Algebra again but my department only required one true math credit so I took Logic. Best decision I ever made!

This sounds like basic Algebra though...which we started in 6th grade so yikes! Then again I know lots of people who sent to Kansas and it's not surprising ;^)

 

[ScoobyDoo]

When I went college in '98 I had to take a math placement test because I barely passed higher algebra in HS. They were going to make me take Algebra again but my department only required one true math credit so I took Logic. Best decision I ever made!

This sounds like basic Algebra though...which we started in 6th grade so yikes! Then again I know lots of people who sent to Kansas and it's not surprising ;^)

In a lot of cases Higher Algrebra is not required for life or work so I would not require that for High School or College. Some High Schools do require it. But basic Algebra should be. Maybe College Algebra is what we called "Advanced Algrebra and Trigonometry" when I went to High School, I don't know.

The Geometry High School course where my daughters went to school was pretty notorious and required by all students. I never understood that. For certain fields, yeah. But not everyone.

 

[state of hockey]

When I went college in '98 I had to take a math placement test because I barely passed higher algebra in HS. They were going to make me take Algebra again but my department only required one true math credit so I took Logic. Best decision I ever made!

I took a very similar path. Math wasn’t needed for my degree other than a general credit requirement. Initially enrolled in a remedial math course, decided it was silly because it didn’t give me any credit regardless of passing or failing. Took a sociology class that satisfied the general requirement because it was heavy on statistics. Aced it.

I’m actually quite good at math, I was just a terrible student for most of high school.

 

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Funny-ish story. They covered trig for one month in my HS math class. That month I missed entirely with mono. To this day I still have trouble with trig -- it's the one rudimentary math topic for me where I know all the recipes but I never truly soaked in it and got a comfortable grounding in it. That was really bad timing because I love trig applications in calculus and I love the basic geometry of trig -- it is very beautiful. But it is balancing on a log (so to speak) to this day.

Teachers are important.

SOHCAHTOA

gosh I thought I was a failure for barely passing AP calc in high school. Then I found statistics and felt smart again

 

[St. Clown]

In a lot of cases Higher Algrebra is not required for life or work so I would not require that for High School or College. Some High Schools do require it. But basic Algebra should be. Maybe College Algebra is what we called "Advanced Algrebra and Trigonometry" when I went to High School, I don't know.

The Geometry High School course where my daughters went to school was pretty notorious and required by all students. I never understood that. For certain fields, yeah. But not everyone.

Back in 95, SCSU had me take a meth placement test during freshman orientation. If you passed it with X percent (I forget the exact number), you either had to take math 130 and then math 131, or you skipped right to math 131. 130 was basically high school algebra, called remedial algebra by the school, and then 131 was was college algebra, which was basically my AAT class from high school, but lighter on the trig than my high school course. All students had to take an algebra class, passing 131 was needed to take a calculus course or any other higher level math course.

I unofficially tutored a number of Math 130 students who lived in my dorm, and a couple other friends made, when they learned I tested into 131. Same goes for the basic physics and chemistry courses.

 

[dxmnkd316]

I posted it because I initially misread it as high schools scrapping the requirement. My brain could, quite literally, not accept it was universities.

Yeah I had to read that twice. I thought algebra wasn't even taught in universities.

 

[St. Clown]

Yeah I had to read that twice. I thought algebra wasn't even taught in universities.

Is this an example of “Tell me you attended a university that wouldn’t accept me without saying the words?”