re: The biggest problem in schools that no one is talking about

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I teach Advanced Math: Pre-Calculus at a pretty good high school outside of BR. Well, our third quarter exams start Friday and there is a lot of Trigonometry on it, including a section where I am asking the students to find the exact value of angles and another section where I am asking the students to evaluate inverse trigonometric functions. Well, calculators can do this crap for them so I am not allowing calculators at all for those two sections. I told them they are more than welcome to draw a unit circle on their scratch paper once the exam starts and they could use that for the two sections. I have gotten emails from about 10 parents complaining that it's not fair of me to not let them use calculators for those two sections. Lol, oh well I guess I am an a-hole douchebag teacher who won't let them use a calculator as a crutch.

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Calculators are one of the worst things to allow in math classes in high school. We were not permitted to use calculators until it was absolutely necessary. Scruffy knows some people who are unable to do basic calculations because they were allowed to use them in high school.

And by basic calculations, Scruffy means addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.