re: How can I get chicks to dig me like they dig this guy?

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Yeah, it is known as crossing a killing field similar to the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall from the good old days of the Cold War. The odds are not stacked in their favor as China will send them back to NK if caught.

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And if successful, the gov't will kill their family and friends left behind.

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It might be the hair. Do you think his hair-do is his secret?

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I'm thinking that has a lot to do with it. I'm making an appointment today. Or just picking up some clippers from Walgreens.

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It's important to note, also, that rightwingers are the first and loudest to object any time initiatives for critical thinking are proposed, like new maths within Common Core.

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the problem with the new maths in CC, at least the ones i've seen, is that it ignores the building blocks of math in order to attempt to teach thinking skills. not only do you lose your base, but you can't just teach kids how to think...esp average or below average ones

and, as a person who personally developed similar methods to those being taught, i can tell you that it's only possible with a strong base in the subject area. mass confusion is very possible/likely

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Actually, it's why homeschoolers don't want a public education. They can't stand that their children might absorb a diversity of attitudes from other people. It's easier to instill a dogma when your victim is in isolation, not when he's out experiencing his neighbors.

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Me thinks you didn't comprehend the point. You are correct that homeschoolers almost certainly do so in large part to minimize outside influences.

HOWEVER.

With homeschooling, you get some variations. Not all homeschoolers believe the same things.

Liberals like PUBLIC education and want EVERYONE in it so they can get UNIFORM results. Hence, my original response that flew over your head. You lovers of the state probably, in your wet dreams, LOVE the results Kim gets. Oh, you may not want the nation to have those beliefs, but you wish you could figure out how to get public education to get such uniform results at indoctrination.

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is that it ignores the building blocks of math in order to attempt to teach thinking skills

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The problem many out there who talk about "teaching kids to think" miss is that "thinking" requires an ability to APPLY knowledge one has gained. They want to skip the knowledge gaining part and jump right to the thinking part.

It is exceedingly challenging to apply "thinking" skills to abstract math problems when you can't quickly call up in your head what 8*8 is and even when you do figure it out, you haven't got a natural understanding of why 9*8 is just "eight more than 8*8.

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You're old Zach.

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It's better than being on the other side of the grass.

I'd like to meet his tailor.

Given my track record every day starts and ends with a prayer. I am not getting all joyful of seeing worms or daisies.