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Am sithin' mad
You will never need to know algebra. I have never once used it and never once even rued that I could not use it.
Yeah, right. I'm a moron so it's not a big deal for everyone to be the same kind of a moron I am.
Why do I complain, though? As long as people are thinking something like that I'll have some means to pay my bills, after they come to me crying, unable to pass 'this damn class that is, o horror, required to get a diploma'.
You'll never need math. Yeah, right. Listen to him, girl, the country needs more cheap workers to do unqualified jobs.
Yeah, right. I'm a moron so it's not a big deal for everyone to be the same kind of a moron I am.
Why do I complain, though? As long as people are thinking something like that I'll have some means to pay my bills, after they come to me crying, unable to pass 'this damn class that is, o horror, required to get a diploma'.
You'll never need math. Yeah, right. Listen to him, girl, the country needs more cheap workers to do unqualified jobs.
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Nevertheless, this does not surprise me at all. I completed two years at public school in Texas (in Houston area), and then the latter two years in California, and I testify that I lost an entire year of math. So I believe part of the problem is not an attitude against math, rather poor ethic of teachers in this state, and definitely at my school.
On the other hand, if Algebra is really that tough for her to fail 6 times, it is probably too late. I would also encourage her enroll in some homemaking class or a typing class, and if this is not disheartening to her, then my point stands true.
I was horrified to hear a student in the physics laboratory section for which I was serving as a TA complain, "This is so much math!" As it turned out, she was complaining about pure arithmetic. She was some engineering student!
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Thankfully, our department chair and the dean don't share this view. :)
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