Word For The Day, Friday, 6/28/02

The Verbivores | 6/28/02 | Teacher

[RikaStrom]

In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “word for the day”. Rules: Everyone must leave a post using the “word of the day”; in a sentence. The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-) Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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avidity \ah-vid-i-ty\, noun:
avidities; noun, plural

1. Ardent desire or craving; eagerness.
2. Keen interest or enthusiasm: followed the tournament with avidity.
3.Chemistry.
A. The dissociation-dependent strength of an acid or base.
B. Degree of affinity.
4. A positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something

Etymology: [L. aviditas, fr. avidus: cf. F. avidit['e]. See Avid.]. Date: 15th Century.

[Argh]

I think the beard's gone. Along with his wits.

[xsmommy]

ceej, have you seen this story? i am so appalled as to be speechless.

[Gabz]

You might want to poke your head in the smokers Lounge

Joe's talking about you!!!!

[xsmommy]

what's he saying about me?????

[xsmommy]

oh yeah, i remember that he was a peeping JOE one night!

[CholeraJoe]

These freeloaders had no health insurance but could afford a ski vacation in Colorado? Easily, the cost of said vacation could have paid premiums for most of a year.

[CholeraJoe]

And going skiing when you're six months pregnant. Double doofus.

[camle]

she has a new bf, so you can breathe easy - for now. she goes thur them quick lately.

[xsmommy]

so it is because they were self-insured or uninsured, that the hospital was taking this attitude towards the baby? i am appalled at the insistence on pulling the plug. one of my best friends gave birth to a baby at 1 lb. 10 oz. It was a very touch and go situation, but that baby is now 14 years old and a straight A student headed to H.S. next year.

[CholeraJoe]

so it is because they were self-insured or uninsured, that the hospital was taking this attitude towards the baby?

I doubt it. The hospitals probably honestly believed that the situation was hopeless.

It just galls me to see peole rolling the dice and not purchasing health insurance when they can afford luxuries like ski vacations and big screen TV's.

[xsmommy]

i had not focused on the insurance aspect of it, only on the lack of support for the parents decision to give their baby every possible chance to survive. i would insist on it myself, were i the parent. And considering that my friend's daughter survived at that weight 14 years ago, and with the advances of technology since that time, it doesn't seem too much to ask for every chance to be given. my friend had health insurance but i recall her saying that the hospital bills were like $75K for that ordeal.

[Argh]

Various new versions of the Pledge are here. Nothing screamingly funny yet, but there probably will be.

[M Kehoe]

The clinton concubine, hillary has an avidity to power. Absolute power. The kind of power which corrupts absolutely.

Ok, I don't need the thermos. Me and Glenn Fiditch (sp) are doing just find.

5.56mm

[Zon]

Raises hand to speak to the teacher and class:

Please, to any person reading this post, read it all before making any judgments.

I have a saying that we are all teachers, learners and doers. Now the quality of each one of those acts can vary greatly. Even the determination of what constitutes quality can vary from one person to the next in regards to each of those.

For example, should a teacher take into account the personal beliefs of the learner/student when handing out a grade?

For example, the WFTD sentence I wrote, what if the learner/student thought the 9th Circuit Court ruling was correct, should the teacher subjectively alter the grade according to the person's belief?

The point is, the learner/student successfully completed the assignment and his or her personal beliefs should not even be an issue with the teacher. For when that happens the slippery slope can easily lead to teachers and doctors asking questions like "do your parents have any guns in the house?" ...And, "do your mommy and daddy argue with each other?" (What parents don't? Albeit some do it better than others. There's the quality issue again.)

Similar has happened to me. In sixth grade I got an A+ on an essay ( I was "C+" student) and because of the nature of the subject I wrote about the school principle denounced my work. I took it in stride and held myself above the fray. As I said the other day, I may be somewhat of an outcast because I don't go along to get along.

Note: The above says nothing about my personal opinion on the 9th Circuit Court's ruling. For that is irrelevant to the assignment at hand (WFTD) and irrelevant to this "learner, teacher, doer" issue I have raised. Also, I'm certainly not the first person on this forum to raise the issue of what constitutes a quality teacher and teaching. (There has been a number of threads regarding teachers questioning students about guns in the house and arguments among parents, etc.)

Finally, this is a legitimate question and in no way implies nor reflects on RikaStrom one way or the other. I merely wanted to raise the quality of the thread. Which obviously is what I think constitutes quality. Almost every poster/Freeper does that to some degree.

BTW Rika, from what I've seen so far you do quite well -- and giving me an A+ has nothing to do with that opinion. Especially since in the last assignment I admitted to being lazy and thought it necessary of myself to put forth the effort to do the assignment as put forth.

I do hope I earned the grade based on merit of completing the assignment as put forth. That I happened to make, IMO, an accurate assessment of Hillary regarding the 9th Circuit Court's ruling is a bonus, or icing on the cake. That we may agree on that I hope didn't influence my grade. Boy, am I ever tough on myself or what!? But you nor anybody else has to shave this face in the mirror each morning.

[xsmommy]

huh? ; )

[RikaStrom]

Not surprising.

A+

[Robert A Cook PE]

I think a grade should depend strictly on the slope of the curve.

Otherwise, the road doesn't go over the hill properly.

[xsmommy]

has anyone informed zon that this is a special needs class....?

[TheGrimReaper]

"The avidity with which the junior Senator* from New York decried the 9th Circuit Court's decision belies her leftist desires to fill all courts with exactly that type of jurist."

* "B!tch" may be substituted here.
(Or in this case, "Princess of Piffle" may be more fitting)

[hobbes1]

I think a grade should depend strictly on the slope

is that   y = mx + b or

y - y1 = m(x - x1)