[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.

[leda]

you're not stumped, are ya? ;)

[nmh]

BTTT!

And teachers report to this MORON?

[freedomfiter2]

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.

[pissant]

the idiots running the NEA are commie stooges with no concept how to teach children. They are too stupid.

[Dallas59]

I can't "do" math either.

[asp1]

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?

[Mr. Mojo]

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.

[King Moonracer]

"Senator Kennedy, Whats 1/3rd plus 1/4th?"

"WHAT! I never use a mixer...Pass the Chivas.

[Enterprise]

""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."

[The Drowning Witch]

In all honesty, I don't remember how to add fractions like that either

[secretagent]

First you have to find a dominator.

[JockoManning]

Thanks for this thread. Glad to know that being in my late forties, I can still do simple math in my head.

jm

[MarkeyD]

Dumbass

[ml/nj]

This isn't "math." It's arithmetic.

(As in "readin', writin' and 'rithmentic.")

ML/NJ

[Old Professer]

Add the denominators and raise the sum over the product of the denominators, 1/3+1/4: 3+4=7; 3*4=12; move sum to top for 7/12.

1/2+1/3: 2+3=5; 2*3=6; 5/6 is the answer.

[durasell]

The teachers union and bloomberg are locked in a weird relationship. Both need the other and can't stand each other.

[okie01]

"I do it the old-fashioned way," she said. "You take your paper, your pen, you add it up and get the fractional whatever."

Ho boy! I wish the host had been ready for this one -- with a piece of paper, a pencil and another problem.

[Condor51]

Whoa, let's not be too critical of Weingarten.

1. Being the Union President likely she hasn't taught in school in years.
2. Even then - teachers are not Degreed on all subjects.
3. You have Math, English, History, etc.
4. Then you have the specific Education 'Level' the teacher is Degreed for. Like Elementary K-3, 4-8 or Secondary (High School).

We have an ollllld friend who is a Teacher in Chicago and Degreed in Mathematics - she's a wiz; Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Physics and yes - even 2+2 (sarc). IIRC She even took Quantum Mechanics in college.

However, ask her about "1066" or "The Battle of Hastings" and you get a blank stare. I know more about History that she does. But that doesn't mean I'm smarter and would be a better teacher, or that she's a bad teacher.

Hell, how she even puts up with those little monsters is a miracle. I'd be in jail for battery.

[kcvl]

She is also a Democratic National Committee member.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Pathetic.