OK, OK, we'll call "algebra" "kwanzaa maff"!
Does that work for you????
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 10:43:49 -0400, "Frank Arthur" <Art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Yes Jack. I see your great literacy in your writing. Nothing like the
>"good ole days" when everything and everybody worked so well. Don't
>change anything Jack. And of course you will blame "dumbed-down
>left-wing classroom political
>correctness.".
>
>You left out "Leftie, Commie, Islamo-Republicrat,
>Fascist,elitist,Pinko, Liberal, anti-American, centrist,zionazi, child
>eating faggot." It's your type of contribution to the failures in
>America.
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>"Jack" <Windswept@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>news:486f7ff3.13828109@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:27:32 -0400, "Frank Arthur"
>> <Art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>"Jack" <Windswept@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>news:486f755d.11117750@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Is it true that you see a school subject and disease as
>>>> synonymous?
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>>>You are unable to see the relation****p between the fear of "scary,
>>>foreign names" to simpler terms whether it is a school subject or a
>>>disease.
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>> Funny how past generations didn't find algebra scary.
>>
>> BOO!
>>
>> You weenies don't seem to mind forcing them to learn Spanish with
>> its
>> foreign names.
>>
>>>Try to expand your horizons.
>>
>> Try to escape the world of dumbed-down left-wing classroom political
>> correctness.
>>
>> Make sure they have "self-esteem, but don't torture them with
>> readin',
>> writin', and 'rithmetic.
>>
>> Heh.
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>>
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>>>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 09:16:00 -0400, "Frank Arthur"
>>>> <Art@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> wrote:
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>>>>>Isn't it true that you use simpler, less scary, names for
>>>>>illnesses
>>>>>and diseases?
>>>>>
>>>>>"Way Back Jack" <Relaxin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> COMMENT: Yeah, that's the ticket, call it "Yomomma," or "Slam
>>>>>> Dunk."
>>>>>> That should create interest in the dumbed-down set.
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>>>>>> Would name change help algebra students?
>>>>>> Posted by Dave Murray | The Grand Rapids Press July 03, 2008
>>>>>> 11:09AM
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As Shakespeare wrote, a rose by any other name would smell as
>>>>>> sweet.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But would Algebra 2 be as difficult if it were called something
>>>>>> else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> State Sen. Wayne Kuipers, R-Holland, recently told a gathering
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> Kent
>>>>>> County school board members that he believes more students would
>>>>>> pass
>>>>>> the upper-level math course if it were called something less
>>>>>> scary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> His theory is that students have convinced themselves that
>>>>>> algebra
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> too difficult and that they throw in the towel before giving it
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> chance.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/07/would_name_change_help_algebra.html
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