I didn't even know what Science Fair Projects are, I had to Google it. We don't have them in my country, and from what I gather from your entry and the comments, I think I should be very happy about that! Is there even a purpose to this all, besides driving both parents and their kids to insanity?
that's the thing; there is no purpose. just like the whole dividing-fractions thingy the sixth grade is doing now. when, in your entire adult life have you ever had to divide a fraction? never, you say?
yeah... that's what i thought.
no purpose. but it does help the parents to reach their secret goal of more gray hairs.
Dividing and multiplying fractions is SO MUCH EASIER than adding and subtracting them. Who the hell thought the method for that up? I remember immense relief when we left adding and subtracting them and moved on to dividing and multiplying them. *nods*
Then again, the 'difficult' stuff has always been -- *snaps* like that -- to me and the 'easy' stuff has been the opposite. I need to find a copy of the Tratchenberg Method of Basic Mathematics so I can finally finish learning the rules. Conventional math makes little sense to me. It's not basic at all. It's stupid. Higher math is so much fun, but schools assume you have to master one to learn the other and wouldn't let me take those classes. Luckily, that's not necessarily the case in college. *reminisces*
Your posts are definitely making me rethink my parental ambitions (and making me want to call my own mom and apologize for the fits and freak outs (hers and my own) I put her through over the years of school projects, etc.)
Just a heads up so no one can say you weren't warned but when Koda is in his sophomore year of HS(provided he makes it that long) there will be a project where by you have a stack of pictures and have to go to the nursery and get a sample of each of the types of flowers and leaves on the papers. This will also involve dissecting said flowers and labeling items that all look alike
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i detest history; always have. geography, too. history was the first college course i took; i got a Big Red F.
on the other hand, i adore literature. [yeah, i know; that lecture about how most intelligent, avid readers are also enthusiastic students of history? go find nightdog_barks and feed it to her--at least you'll have an agreeable, appreciative audience. that particular lecture just goes into one of my ears, zooms through the Big Empty Space in the middle, and flies right out the other ear].
so... what i'm thinkin' here is... the class is called Social Studies, right. And for this fair, it says "Choose an individual...." and F. Scott Fitzgerald, my absolutely-all-time-phenomenally-amazing-favorite-author, is known as the Father of the Jazz Age. And he qualifies as 'an individual,' right? see where i'm going with this? work with me here
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I could have used your stepdad when I was in HS then. That project was a BEAR. Even with everything all packed in individual labeled bags it still looked like nine hundred examples of the same thing.
I won't get on you about the history thing but I do have to say it makes me sad. Now I will go lurk back under the bridge where the rest of my historian elk sit in wait :P
I detested most classes in school but since I had people around me who told such great stories of the past I always had a thing for history. Some of it is tempered by the stack of history texts I am reading to muck my way through my Masters but I still love it and can watch the History Channel for HOURS. While my minor was in English I never really liked English class and your man Fitzgerald is a big reason why. I liked his writings but he is the reason I could never be a lit major. Sometimes a flower really is a flower. Jesus did EVERYTHING in The Great Gatsby have to have deeper symbolic meaning?
Ah yes, science fair. How I sympathize. My kids' school has one every year. Even the kindergarteners participate.
OTOH I'm a science fair judge for my kids' school, so it's always fun to see the results. (If you need some tips, I'm available, heh.) At least you chose a good project for it. :-)
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Anyway - good luck to you both!!
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yeah... that's what i thought.
no purpose. but it does help the parents to reach their secret goal of more gray hairs.
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Then again, the 'difficult' stuff has always been -- *snaps* like that -- to me and the 'easy' stuff has been the opposite. I need to find a copy of the Tratchenberg Method of Basic Mathematics so I can finally finish learning the rules. Conventional math makes little sense to me. It's not basic at all. It's stupid. Higher math is so much fun, but schools assume you have to master one to learn the other and wouldn't let me take those classes. Luckily, that's not necessarily the case in college. *reminisces*
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i continue to maintain that it is a Very Good Idea that there are no projectile-firing implements in the falango household.
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Good luck!
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gonna take all the 'luck' we can get. i am also accepting hugs, prayers, and small donations of unneeded brain cells.
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nonononononononoNO No. just... no.
make it go away, mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i detest history; always have. geography, too. history was the first college course i took; i got a Big Red F.
on the other hand, i adore literature. [yeah, i know; that lecture about how most intelligent, avid readers are also enthusiastic students of history? go find nightdog_barks and feed it to her--at least you'll have an agreeable, appreciative audience. that particular lecture just goes into one of my ears, zooms through the Big Empty Space in the middle, and flies right out the other ear].
so... what i'm thinkin' here is... the class is called Social Studies, right. And for this fair, it says "Choose an individual...." and F. Scott Fitzgerald, my absolutely-all-time-phenomenally-amazing-favorite-author, is known as the Father of the Jazz Age. And he qualifies as 'an individual,' right? see where i'm going with this? work with me here ( ... )
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I won't get on you about the history thing but I do have to say it makes me sad. Now I will go lurk back under the bridge where the rest of my historian elk sit in wait :P
I detested most classes in school but since I had people around me who told such great stories of the past I always had a thing for history. Some of it is tempered by the stack of history texts I am reading to muck my way through my Masters but I still love it and can watch the History Channel for HOURS. While my minor was in English I never really liked English class and your man Fitzgerald is a big reason why. I liked his writings but he is the reason I could never be a lit major. Sometimes a flower really is a flower. Jesus did EVERYTHING in The Great Gatsby have to have deeper symbolic meaning?
No, it really didn't
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OTOH I'm a science fair judge for my kids' school, so it's always fun to see the results. (If you need some tips, I'm available, heh.) At least you chose a good project for it. :-)
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