Survey posted 2000-10-23 23:38 by Nick Disabato.

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I have doller. Doller buy me fud. Cukie is fud. Teacher give me cukie! Therefores school is doller! Teacher say 'A cookie stupid'. I have 'A'. Cokie stupids r my favorites flaver.
This is retard for "I go to private school, all my friends who go to public school know nothing and seem to be proud of it". The begining metaphor in this retard text is bringing a more metaphysical approach to the situation. If ones position in life deems thier education to be either ill recieved, ill suited, or just ill, then it's not thier fault. =) Peace.

There isn't anything wrong with public schools. Trying and learning, are different than being taught. I should know, I was in a private school for eight years and since have seen my old classmates (they continued in a private school while I switched to public due to money problems) become degraded in their knowledge. Each person is unique, whether they fit into a general category or not.

>There isn't anything wrong with public schools.

Depends on what state you live in and what school you go to. My public middle school sucked. Everything sucked and I didn't learn a thing until I came to the private school that I am currently at. Even the honors program at public schools around my area is a joke.

I live in South Carolina. I have gone through grade school and will finish middle school in June (Grade 8). In my 8 years in South Carolina schools, I have learned one thing:

</c>Public School SUCKS!!!<c>

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My $.02,
Kyle

I live in South Carolina. I have gone through grade school and will finish middle school in June (Grade 8). In my 8 years in South Carolina schools, I have learned one thing:

</c>Public School SUCKS!!!<c>

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My $.02,
Kyle

(with a 3.75 GPA (out of 4, making straight A's, excepting a C in PE, because PE sucks, like my PE teacher))

Obviously SC schools don't teach reading very well because, if you could reach the posting guidelines, you would have known that you can't use HTML here. And even if you could, it wouldn't work, because your HTML tags were in the wrong order.

On the other hand, even literate people make typos. That was supposed to be "read" not "reach."

My one teacher, Mrs. Charbonneau(Charby) has lost her mind, or never had it, I don't know which. She should be punished for inciting rebellions in the student body. But enough about me, how is everyone doing out there in radioland? If life ever gets you down, just think, where would you be without legs. Probably stumbling around on your hands trying to drive to school. No offense to handicaps, they are awesome and never have weight problems. Stay off the crack, and you'll be AOK. Go Skizaks!

Dude, you sound like a major stud.

The odds of there being anyone that is below a C in this group of people are not that good. Face it, most of the users here are smart and the fact that we're using a high tech tool for our education shows that. Many of the users here are the classic 80's term 'nerds'. If TICALC were to run a poll on what your planning or are majoring in college I would bet 80% would say some form of engineering. Asking what the users of this site grade is, would be like asking what religion you are in utah.

> most of the users here are smart and the fact that we're using a high tech tool for our education shows that.

Didn't we just have a discussion about that on one of the last surveys? I remember something like: "Don't think you're smart because you can punch some keys on your calculator." Or something.

It does take a higher level of education to use a lot of the functions on a graphing calculator. Your right and in that survey I said basicly the same thing. Some of the people of this site fit do just that but the majority of the people use the calculator as a shortcut and know what its doing. You aren't a genuis because you use a calculator but a genuis can use a calculator.

In fact, I am among the 80% who will go into Engineering. Or Computer Science. Or both.

I am one of the "both" people.

Add me onto the "both" column.

That really depends upon where you live in Utah. Davis District, where I'm from, has pretty much split boundaries upon religion. Those in the Farmington and Kaysville areas, I feel look at the Layton and Clearfield areas as being "less Mormon." In the subdivision I live in there are only twelve of probably forty or more households that are Mormon.

I went to school at Alta and I was one of about 50 that wan't in seminary ( my graduting class was about 780 students). So those that weren't LDS felt a little out of place. I've notice that the heart of the mormons is in happy valley and moves out from there, so your further away then me and so forth you have less mormons living in your area.

What a stupid question! Schoolmarkings are so different in different countries, even in different schools in the same country.

Is that a typo? I think "country" is supposed to be "county."

There was a wide variety of grade point scales used in my area, so it was impossible for students who attended different schools to compare their GPA's.

American Understatement? ;-)

I wouldn't say the USA are just a county. At least it would surprise me. After all, they are pretty big. :-)

I guess you know what I mean. I hope this will help you understand Samir Ribic's statement a little better. And yes, I do agree that you can't compare the systems that different countries use to calculate grades.

For example, in Germany, in 11th through 13th grade, we get numbers from 0 to 15, where 15 equals a "1+" grade (the best, would be "A+" if it existed), 14 equals a "1" ("A" in the US), the 1-, 2+, 2, 2-, and so on. You can't compare them to US grades, though, because "5" (with -/+) exists, but "5+" is already "failed." However, you can make up for it with another grade, at least up to 10th grade. I don't know exactly; I've never gotten anything below a "4+". There are tables you can compare US and German grades with, but they are very inaccurate.

I don't even know my grades of this quarter yet. We get them next Monday.

BTW: I thought ticalc.org was located in Sweden.

the ticalc.org server and database and hardware and all that "yummy goodness" is located somewhere in Sweden, yes. but the staff (obviously) is dispersed around the world. which makes it quite interesting to hear how people responded to this survey. ...stupid grading differences...
no seriously, i think the German grading scale is better than the US grading scale, because... well, just because. i can't really explain it, but i think it makes more sense.
btw, i have a C average. this is my penalty for not doing my homework.... anyway, i think an 83.7 is something like a 2.(?) i really don't know how to figure it...

> no seriously, i think the German grading scale is better than the US grading scale

I liked the percentages they used when I was in the US last year. Curves are sort of stupid sometimes, especially when you get curved down because your grade doesn't exist. I had a 150 on the computer science midterm, and it was curved down to 100. All the others were curved up (e.g. 90 to 100, and something like 65 to 80!) BTW: My final GPA was a 94.

> i think an 83.7 is something like a 2

That sounds reasonable. It depends on the school you're in, though. In Germany, there are three different school levels, and what you said is probably true for the highest level, and it would equal a 1 in the next level.

What I really hated about grades were those computer sheets coming in the mail. They made me feel like I really was just a number.

YES!! i agree completely. grade curving sucks if you have a high grade, but if you have a really low grade, then it kicks booty. for example: <throws two peace signs up like Richard Nixon> recently, my AP Biology class took a test over molecular compounds and energy synthesis and the like. only 2 people passed. when the grades were curved, everybody was happy except for the passing people, and everything was juuuuuuuust PEACHY! anyway, i was quite happy because i got a 61 with the curve, which would have been a 41 without it. to clear up any misconseptions, a 61 at my school is still a failing grade, but it is a lot better than a 41.
as to the computer sheets, that is so true. it's all impersonal because it's "cost effective for the school board." i remember back in the day in grade school when the report cards were written out by hand...

btw, where did you stay in the U.S.?

I stayed in Ithaca, NY. That's where Cornell is. Actually, my host father worked at Cornell as a vet. Unfortunately, I was in the school district of Lansing, a rather small school solely based on sports. I HATE SPORTS!!! Some friends told me I should join the swim team in the Winter season because it was supposed to be fun. I didn't know it was ranked 5th in the nation! So I stayed at the last place - no, wait, actually one before the last. Well, at least now I can swim well enough to join my town's team. :-)

>PEACHY!

Swell.

> > yummy goodness

I believe the term is "creamy goodness"

well, if we're going to get technical...
i once received an email from Nick concerning the screen shotting business (back in the day when the first call for shooters went out) which contained the words, "yummy goodness." i can't recall what exactly they referred to, but they were there... so yeah. OOH DANG SHABAM!!

No, I meant "county," i.e., a small administrative district within a state. That is, the high schools just a few kilometers away from mine all had vastly different GPA scales. In Harris County, Texas, there are 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 6.5, 7.0, and even 12.0 scales. That accounts for only about 1% of U.S. schools.

I know what you meant. I was talking about whether Samir Ribic meant "country," and I think he did, so it wasn't a typo. Remember that he lives in Sarajevo.

Wait a minute, did you say 13th grade? Do you guys out in Germany have more school than us in the US or is it just numbered differently?

He could be referring to his first year in College, but for your information, the USA has one of the most lenient education systems in the world. I think it's because most countries include their home language, English, and another language, but since English IS the home language here, it negates the need for a class. But there's another reason. Sorry if I sound snobby, but there is a flaw with the ideal "Land of the Free, Government Holds Your Hand Through Life" type country (no, I'm not talking about Communism). The problem is that American citizens are beginning to get a little lazy, and many people think they can rely on unemployment insurance and taxes to get through life. Fortunately, this is a huge minority. Also, even though I think this is present in all humans, it seems that many American authority figures (including teachers and principals) run too much on emotion and not enough on truth. For example, if you say something crude to your English teacher's daughter, she'll probably give you an F on your next essay. That may be a little extreme, but you know what I mean, right?

Oops, I'm ranting again. Goodbye!

It depends on how you look at it. Technically, you can go through 10 years of school and then start an apprenticeship. You can't drop out before that, though. If you want to go to college, you need an extra three years (with which you have better chances in your career anyway). You can't go to college in Germany with an American high school diploma; you need a two-year college degree. I don't know if it's the same the other way around. Before college, you have to do one year of military or civil service (if you're a male person). They're talking about civil service for all, but that won't happen too soon (although it would be better because military service doesn't help society). School might also be reduced to 12 years to save money on teachers, but they'd still have to teach us the same stuff, only in a shorter time. I don't think that would work.

Yes, but look at the top, it says that the survey was posted by Nick, and I do believe he is american, just visit his web site (Link above)(I believe).

I know what you mean. I once had a teacher that was telling us about the school he went to. In the little town of Snowflake Arizona ( thats were the movie Fire in the Sky was based) they use a system thats backwards. He had the hight gpa in the school and that was a 1. The worse you did they higher the number.

P.S. for everyone that saw Fire in the Sky, my teacher knew the guy that was abducted ( it was his sister ex-husband) He said that the guy was making it up and that he is a pathological lyier.

Let me see, your sister's wife?