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Math Pop Quiz Stumps Teacher Union Head
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| December 28
| Erin Einhorn
Posted on 12/30/2006 9:36:31 AM PST by achilles2000
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Thought everyone might be interested in knowing a little more about the type of people who have been chosen to lead our highly trained unionized education professionals..My 9 year-old can do that problem in his head - and a lot more. Weingarten is representative of what our $600 billion/year government education disaster is buying. BTW, Weingarten was featured in Stossel's Stupid in America program. She may be a math illiterate, but she crow-barred a lot of money out of the NYC school board and schools chief, Joel Klein.
To: patton
you're not stumped, are ya? ;)
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:38:25 AM PST
by
leda
(The quiet girl on the stairs.)
To: achilles2000
BTTT!
And teachers report to this MORON?
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:38:28 AM PST
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
To: achilles2000
Thought everyone might be interested in knowing a little more about the type of people who have been chosen to lead our highly trained unionized education professionals..My 9 year-old can do that problem in his head - and a lot more. Weingarten is representative of what our $600 billion/year government education disaster is buying. BTW, Weingarten was featured in Stossel's Stupid in America program. She may be a math illiterate, but she crow-barred a lot of money out of the NYC school board and schools chief, Joel Klein.
It's all on a need to know basis. You don't need to know basic math to extort billions from tax payers.
To: achilles2000
the idiots running the NEA are commie stooges with no concept how to teach children. They are too stupid.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:40:24 AM PST
by
pissant
To: nmh
Well, no, teachers don't "report" to this moron.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:41:40 AM PST
by
Clara Lou
To: achilles2000
I can't "do" math either.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:43:02 AM PST
by
Dallas59
(HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!)
To: achilles2000
In response to a question about the quality of education, didn't the brilliant Ms. Weingartner say, "...I'll start worrying about the kids when they can vote in the (union), elections." Or something to that affect?
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:43:17 AM PST
by
asp1
To: pissant; cinives; wintertime; BlackElk
Actually, this is the more "intellectual union", the American Federation of Teachers (about 50% the size of the NEA).
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:44:54 AM PST
by
achilles2000
(Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
To: achilles2000
After Weingarten stumbled, another guest quickly produced the correct answer: 7/12ths, leaving Weingarten to explain herself. "I do it the old-fashioned way," she said. "You take your paper, your pen, you add it up and get the fractional whatever." lol...."the fractional whatever"?
Even if one doesn't know the answer by memory it's quite easy to add these two particular fractions the old-fashioned way in one's head.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:45:01 AM PST
by
Mr. Mojo
To: achilles2000
"Senator Kennedy, Whats 1/3rd plus 1/4th?"
"WHAT! I never use a mixer...Pass the Chivas.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:45:03 AM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, thats how you sell clothing.)
To: achilles2000
""What's 1/3rd plus 1/4th?"... " Replied Weingarten: "Well, it depends on what the 1/3rd and 1/4th are composed of. For instance, maybe it is 1/3rd of a pie, and 1/4th of a can of Rockstar. Obviously, it gets very complicated from there."
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:45:54 AM PST
by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: King Moonracer
But Kennedy is really good at adding fifths...hic
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:47:56 AM PST
by
achilles2000
(Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
To: asp1
I think that was Bob Chase of the NEA, but I am not entirely positive. Someone here has a link to the information, I'm sure (I would like ot have it).
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:48:59 AM PST
by
achilles2000
(Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
To: achilles2000
In all honesty, I don't remember how to add fractions like that either
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:49:15 AM PST
by
The Drowning Witch
(Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:)
To: The Drowning Witch
Another victim of the new math, perhaps? I was one of the experimented upon children for that and Chomsky's Transformational Grammar. It was easier overcoming the math deficit than the grammar deficit ;-)
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:51:19 AM PST
by
achilles2000
(Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
To: achilles2000
First you have to find a dominator.
To: Enterprise
"Replied Weingarten: "Well, it depends on what the 1/3rd and 1/4th are composed of. For instance, maybe it is 1/3rd of a pie, and 1/4th of a can of Rockstar. Obviously, it gets very complicated from there." "
Just, wow.
She'd make a fine obfuscating attorney though, wouldn't she?
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:54:46 AM PST
by
EyeGuy
To: secretagent
The amounts were too small for the factoring ... woman only thinks in millions and billions.
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posted on
12/30/2006 9:55:19 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
To: The Drowning Witch
Well, if you aren't called on to do it very often, it's not surprising that you'd forget.
This incident is a 2-edged sword. The bashers are so anxious to bash the person in the article that they don't stop to think about who they are unintentionally bashing [like fellow conservatives, for instance].
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