I’d say that probably 80-90% of students went on to take at least pre-calc (derivatives) if not Calculus (integration).
Our of curiosity, is your 6 out of (50?) states a real number or is it an attempt at humor? I’d actually be interested in seeing stats as to what is required reading in which state.
My point was that such things ARE taught in (at least some) schools. Political correctness in the sense of not teaching “family values” is not at issue here.
“If Joe maxes out and borrows $20000 on a credit card, and makes $20 a payment each month, how many months will it take Joe to pay off his credit card debt, assuming he doesn’t borrow any more money from it and there is no interest charges?”
Of course, I have a feeling that sort of math question wouldn’t be allowed, because it would be flagged as borderline “family values” that shouldn’t be taught in a public school math class…
I can’t speak to the People’s Republic of CA, but when I went to public HS in small-town NJ in the 90s, we had interest-amortization and things like that in high school calculus. Or maybe it was our economics class, can’t remember, but no one objected…
We also had shop, home-ec, and basic electronic theory classes, the latter taught by a retired radio engineer from Bell Labs, so the school was big on “life skills” as well as hard sciences and math up to calculus.
So they’re rather have sex “explained” to them by another kid of the appropriate gender, then cry when they end up prego, hurt, or with an incurable VD. Orthodox $BOOK thumpers confusicate me.
We had health-ed in the 5th or 6th grade, maybe earlier, and this was in the early 90ies. Nothing new. Sexuality is a natural part of life. No shame in learning about it before the age where one starts to actually experience attraction.
Better that kids who experience homosexual attraction know that it’s normal and OK and not hide it and get driven to suicide or worse…
It’s clearly not true in all states — read about Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright, who was a violent drunkard in VA who got hired because his mommie worked at the town hall.
Now serving several years in prison for manslaughter, and it’s a shame he wasn’t locked up for 25-to-life with the largest, meanest, most VD-infested cellmate possible.
I don’t have a huge problem with a progressive tax system that taxes lower levels of income less, so long as most types of income are taxed the same, and productive activity is encouraged.
i.e. people who hoard property for the depreciation without it being profitable should be slapped.
Why not compare apples to apples? High-level FDA research job vs the same job in pharma. Cop vs private security guard. State road engineer vs private structural engineer. Etc.
For a condo? Just find a good tenant, rent the place out in good repair, and have a few tradesmen’s phone numbers on speed-dial. i.e. don’t bother with middlemen.
Lol. Markets are up again today. My head is dizzy….
NASDAQ -42 as of 11 am. Are the big players and lemmings really selling off to pile more money into TWTR? This is insane and bizarre — by all news, etc, this should have been a good day.
FB at 48.
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