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The point is that the student is an immigrant, working in addition to college, who barely speaks english, and who still Aced the course while the idiot muricans
by johnea 2y ago
The point is that the student is an immigrant, working in addition to college, who barely speaks english, and who still Aced the course while the idiot muricans were busy using twerk tick and 1/2 failed.
If after reading the article, this was your take away question, you'd probably fail the remedial class too...
- neilk 2y agoThe nail salon thing is a stereotype in North America, but maybe not relevant in other countries.
- asimovfan 2y agoIt is in germany
- fragmede 2y agoIf after reading the guidelines, that was your takeaway closing sentence, you'd probably also fail the remedial class. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- geomark 2y agoThe recursive nature of your reply should not be lost on HN readers. :)
- galdosdi 2y agonitpick: this blog post was written in 2013, so they were wasting their time watching TV or browsing facebook, not on "twerk tick" (I assume you sarcastically meant tiktok) major point that is not a nitpick but is related: Since 2013, especially since the pandemic, most educators I've talked to agree it's gotten significantly worse. It was bad then and it's awful now. The reality is if you can add, subtract, multiply, divide, estimate, convert between, and understand the real world meaning of fractions, decimals, and percents, let alone apply it to real world situations like which bag of flour has a cheaper unit price, you are in a minority of american adults.