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1. Shadowman311 (shadowman311@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:16:41 JST Shadowman311
   What would we ever do without the wonders of public "education?"
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:16:41 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @Shadowman311 Is this an autism test?

     Everyone’s acting like the kid’s right, but what if I showed you that THIS is the kid that wrote this answer? Still on his side?

     There’s plenty to ridicule in inane common core horseshit, but this is just generic school laziness. The kid isn’t outsmarting the problem, he’s just shirking work and being a nigger. He may have answered the question at a surface level, but that misses the point entirely. The words are just there to give a substrate to paint on, a chance to demonstrate understanding of the relationships between fractions.

     Writing a dumb nigger answer like “‘uh because his pizza was 4 feet wide” is pointless, you’re only demonstrating sloth and a lack of capacity. Sure, it’s “right”, but it’s not fit for purpose.

     Jeez, I can’t believe I’m taking a teacher’s side here. Gross.

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:24:15 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️

     @BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 That’s acceptable for a toddler but any kid at the point of writing should be smart enough to know what the paper is for. Guys are applying their adult frame of mind to this and getting way off base. It’s a fractions worksheet, everything is about fractions, kids get that, they follow themes and apply it from one answer to another, it’s why you have to start adding more complex problems as they go in order to prove they understand the separate components and steps of the process.

     If you think this is bad we need to start going over how common core teaches basic math functions now. I don’t even think the schools around here do long division these days

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:24:16 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Shadowman311 Should get at least half credit. Tests where they're asking you "how something is possible" are literally asking you to come up with a way to make it possible. I literally don't care what the kid looked like. It's a bad question. Simple as. But let's see the rest of the paper, because if his fraction work is otherwise fine, that further proves or wrecks my point.
   • dew_the_dew :verified: (dew_the_dew@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:26:22 JST dew_the_dew :verified:

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     It's just stupid to have the answer be that "It's not possible" when it is definitely possible in the exact scenario the kid gave as an answer. It's possible that the kid understands fractions better than whoever authored this question.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:26:22 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     • dew_the_dew :verified:

     @dew_the_dew @BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 In all likelihood, the smartest kid in the class got to the problem first, brought it to her desk, and then she told the class “oops, there’s a mistake on problem 11, the names are switched around”

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:33:23 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️

     @BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 All the kid would have to do is write the fractions in there and he’d’ve gotten credit, would be that simple, her eyes would have glazed over it and seen numbers where they belong before she moved on to the next one.

     There was probably a correction on the whiteboard too, it’s a typo bc teachers are phenomenally lazy. Am I the only one who remembers school?

   • Santa Noodle ☦️ (bowsacnoodle@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:33:24 JST Santa Noodle ☦️

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @Shadowman311 I think this is a problem that would screw over smart or dumb kids. I can tell you I would have answered it that way, assuming I couldn't ask for clarification, and I would have argued my reasoning until the principal was involved.
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:40:11 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     • Marakus

     @Marakus @BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 You guys need to hang out and help kids with their homework more then. This is very common. The rare times dad comes to help out he’ll take the problem super seriously and do what everyone’s doing here, then throw up his hands and angrily write a note in the margins to the teacher about how this is CLEARLY impossible, and blah blah blah

     Mom will just look, squint her eyes, and say “oh, this is reversed, they got the names mixed up”

     I take issue with this because I want our people to be smarter than this, we can’t deal with everything being hyperliteral like this

   • Marakus (marakus@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Jan-2023 05:40:12 JST Marakus

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     • Santa Noodle ☦️
     @WashedOutGundamPilot @BowsacNoodle @Shadowman311 >kids should figure out, that the real answer to the question, is to declare question to be false/impossible, even if they can easily answer it