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From: rene@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: : Anecdotes
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Date: Mon, 7-Nov-83 10:57:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  7 10:57:20 1983
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I think everyone has unpleasant memories of High School (and Junior
High, etc) (except for my friend who had the luck to attend an open
classroom high school). My worst memory is of an Elementary Analysis
teacher. At the time I had a choice between taking Advanced Placement
History and Triganalysis (trigonometry and elementary analysis) or
Elementary Analysis (a more advance math class - I'd already had
trigonmetry) and regular history. I was put in AP history, but I
decided that the advanced math was more important, so (against all
precedent) I managed to change classes (and I'd been getting an easy
"A" in history, too). However, on the first day I was there, the
teacher, Mrs. Burns, (she deserves to have her name mentioned!) gave
us a few new theorems, proved one by deduction and asked us to prove
the rest by induction (these methods had been fleetingly mentioned in
the same class). She then left for most of the class. The next class
when I asked a question, she replied "I'm not going to come down to
your level, you have to come up to mine!" I don't remember what I
asked, but I don't think it deserved that answer. Anyway, I stormed to
the back of the class (I always sit in front), and about 15 min. later
left (I NEVER left class early, or cut class). And again, despite all
precedence, I kicked and screamed and got switched BACK into
triganalysis. (and also to AP history, with a teacher bigoted against
everyone, and who had the class so cowed that when we switched
teachers the next semester, it took her half the semester to get
people to volunteer to speak in class.)
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