From: stripes919 [anal seepage]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:13

Chicago's Malcomb X school sounds like
they don't feel they have a security problem?

From what I can read about Chi town makes me
wonder WTF ??

From: toddsputnik [todd sputnik LLC]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:28

I agree with the student. What good is math? They give you a bunch of abstract problems which have no bearing in later life, particularly if you are 40 years old. I mean, English is helpful for reading traffic signs and writing down the customers orders while you are waiting on them during your part time job waitressing at Denny's, that is, unless you are in Los Angeles, and then Spanish is helpful. You don't need math to add up the number of pizzas you have to deliver because there is always a calculator. No one ever asks you to determine the number of pizzas you have to deliver by saying, "x + y = z." If you ask me, the teacher had it coming.

From: rotteneggs13 [a bakers dozen]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:33

Gawd only knows what would have happened to the
instructor if the math challenged student
had asked about the
"Fundamental Theorem of Calculus".

From: toxicpiehole [tph]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:37

Welcome to Chicago. Next class we will discuss physics, the velocity of the bullet is what?

From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:43

Typical violent, ignorant 'groid. Forty year olde GED student.....O' Brave New World that has such creatures in't!

And Malcolm X College (an obvious oxymoron) do they teach courses in pimping, drug-dealing, rabble-rousing...or just general nig-noggery?

Malcolm X College indeed!

Fucking hilarious......and highly indicative.

From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 13:51

I have always held with the idea of stabbing the teacher if I didn't understand.....perforated instructors are much more helpful....that is if they don't bleed on your homework.

From: doughnutman [guesswhy]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:04

I know that area and that school. They don't need security because it is ran by a bunch of bad ass American Muslims. The whole street and area is skid row except around the school.
Respect and fear go a long way in Chi-town.

From: daredevil [CameronVale]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:04

I prefer instuctors with perforated colons. (and semi-colons)

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:16

"And Malcolm X College (an obvious oxymoron) do they teach courses in pimping, drug-dealing, rabble-rousing...or just general nig-noggery?"




I bet the only way you graduated from your lily white university was because you remembered not to hand the professor the CD with the closeups of pink, tight 7 year old holes in your pedophilia collection.

superior race, MY ASS!

From: synesthesia [you'll figure it out]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:17

If this was the kind of teacher that explains by repeating the exact sentences he used before, then it was justified.

From: skyeyez9 [Marie]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 15:07

So did stabbing the teacher help her figure out the problem?

From: distortedfanatic [Distorted Fanatic]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 15:13

I know how that lady feels: at thirty-five years old, I was trying to take algebra in college and was never able to comprehend that shit. $600 later, I find I have a "math disablity".

From: jenasaurusx [Awesome!]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 15:20

I don't condone what this chick did, but I can sympathize. Math makes me feel pretty stabby, too.


http://calcsucks.ytmnd.com/ <--Go there.

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 15:41

Hey Jen,

Did you used to own one of those "Math is Hard!" Barbie dolls?

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 15:46

Actually, the phrase was "Math is hard, let's go shopping!" or something like that. LOL


http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002892.html

From: reader57 [Rotten Reader]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 16:13

I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many useful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.

I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

From: niebelung [oregonian]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 16:29

Probably the teacher knew how to do the problem because she got her GED last year.

From: richfolks [aregross]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 17:19

agian missy, Thats the binary fusion apparati.

From: merrillvillain [yeah ........ that merrillville]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 17:39

Somebody is going to have a incomplete
steak knife set at home

Doughnutman is correct -- This school is in
a rough neighborhood -- I was born about 8 miles
from this area

From: mikeisgreen [Mike]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 17:44

21st Century Barbie:


Life is hard; Let's go popping!


I'm willing to bet that within 30 years, half of all high school diplomas will be GED or somesuch.

From: ltjackboot [name]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 17:50

Math made me stabby too, but I didn't DO it.

From: gargoyle1
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:06

Never stabbed a lousy teacher but I did get a couple reprimanded and one fired.

From: phyrricvictory [bob]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:16

From: toddsputnik [todd sputnik LLC]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:35

phyrricvictory [bob-ster]:

That makes me ... aaarrrrrgggh crazeeeeee man

From: oozingsantorum [Rick Santorum]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:47

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:16

"And Malcolm X College (an obvious oxymoron) do they teach courses in pimping, drug-dealing, rabble-rousing...or just general nig-noggery?"




I bet the only way you graduated from your lily white university was because you remembered not to hand the professor the CD with the closeups of pink, tight 7 year old holes in your pedophilia collection.

superior race, MY ASS!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Considering that bajoogas commit over half of the murders in this country, despite making up only 13% of the population, you may want to shut the fuck up.

From: toddsputnik [todd sputnik LLC]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:56

By "bajoogas" are you making a blatant reference to mutton chopped genetic retards driving their Japanese made trucks down the dirty dust roads of the deep south with a Confederate flag [loser flag] pasted on their back windows on their way to the family meth lab? I thought so. Hey, I found a picture of a "bajooga" in the Tallahassee Community College dictionary:

From: aulduron [Aulduron]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 19:14

Holy fucking shit. This must be the first time that retard has ever posted without blowing the margins.

From: studgerbil [Stud]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 20:12

They should've rephrased the problem in a way she could understand. IT's been done before.

"Say you turn 20 tricks in one night, at $10 per; and your pimp takes 50% right off the top. A vial of crack costs $5. But your friends want you to front them ten vials too before the night's out.

How many rocks can you buy and still have enough to keep your pimp from beating the hell outta you before midnight?"

From: aulduron [Aulduron]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 21:02

No whore with a pimp does $10 dates, pimps take it all, Crack is sold in mostly baggies (a vial itself probably costs around $5), whores don't front shit to nobody.

From: merrillvillain [yeah ........ that merrillville]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 22:04

Aulduron

The vials you might be thinking of are the dark brown
glass variety with a screw-on top -- These are usually associated
with powder cocaine -- Regular users of blow usually purchase their
own and refill them on their own

Plastic vials are used to package crack if you have
a large supply -- They are relatively cheap if you buy in
bulk and the color of the caps are used to mark various increments
to avoid confusion on the part of the dealer

The plastic vials I am referring to look similair to
a eyeglass repair kit tube

From: aulduron [Aulduron]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 22:44

...Plastic vials are used to package crack if you have
a large supply -- ...

Right, but he's talking about nickle rocks.

From: bubbavirus [www.dogbomb.co.uk]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 00:04

Life is hard; Let's go popping!

poppers,

Did I allready mention my teacher-daughters' second grade reading level, recently suspended, expelled / re-instated troublemaker in the seventh grade regular classroom?

From: bubbavirus [www.dogbomb.co.uk]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 00:09

Correction:
****ey reads at second grade level,...
sorry for lack of ....
well,
documenting the obvious,...
insert Curious George images

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 01:19

Rick Santorum:

"Considering that bajoogas commit over half of the murders in this country, despite making up only 13% of the population, you may want to shut the fuck up."

*****************

*Sigh*...here we go again...

Where do you get your statistics, Santorum?

I can already think of one bloodthirsty white man (who incidentally now lives in the WHITE house) responsible for the murder of over 3000 soldiers, over 90,000 Iraqis, and whose failure to listen to his own intelligence resulted in another 3000 deaths on Sept. 11, and another 2000 in Hurricane Katrina.

Show me a 'bajooga' who has murdered over 100,000 people, fucktard, and maybe I won't think you're just another racist moron...

From: destardi [josh destardi]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 01:20

...I claim no 'bajoogas' at all. Black or white.

From: nomdeplume [NomDeGuerre]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 04:02

I suspect trying to teach this GED-aspirant advanced math (like, uh, adding and subtracting two-digit numbers) is akin to teaching the finer points of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix describing the mismatch of quantum states of quarks during weak decay to a rhesus monkey.

From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 06:12

From: oozingsantorum [Rick Santorum]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 18:47

From: doczzz [dwarf fusion]
Date: 10-Jan-2007 14:16

"And Malcolm X College (an obvious oxymoron) do they teach courses in pimping, drug-dealing, rabble-rousing...or just general nig-noggery?"




I bet the only way you graduated from your lily white university was because you remembered not to hand the professor the CD with the closeups of pink, tight 7 year old holes in your pedophilia collection.

superior race, MY ASS!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Considering that bajoogas commit over half of the murders in this country, despite making up only 13% of the population, you may want to shut the fuck up.
--------------------------------------
You are obviously not counting the 100,000+ murders Bush has committed in the last few years.

BTW, if the white race is so superior, why is it that if you have one drop of 'colored' blood you aren't white? Seems to me if it was superior, one drop of white blood would make you white.

Point to ponder.........

From: kwijibo [A fat, balding north-american ape]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 06:46

I do hope that Ms. Washington was able to obtain the professor's attention and arrive at a suitable explanation which would enable her to understand the difficult mathematical ideas which were being revealed to her.

Lest she claim that this knowledge is irrelevant "white" knowledge, she should be reminded that Africans discovered the foundations of math upon which our current knowledge is based.

Other than a mention that the professor was at a "blackboard," I see no other mention of the races of those persons involved. I think some of you are assuming facts not in evidence. Having said that, the student is obviously quite passionate in her desire to learn -- no matter her race.

As a basically white guy, ok biracial but everyone thinks I'm white, I've been pretty passionate in my desire to learn but I've never been so passionate that I'd want to stab someone over it.

From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 07:04

Kwijibo, Malcolm X College is a pretty fair indicator of the race of the students.

From: noblesavage [Noble Savage]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 08:45

Maybe they ought to change the name
of the college to "Malcolm 10 College."
That way the mathematically challenged
wouldn't get stabby from the get-go.
I flunked advanced math classes when I
was in high school. I received a "D" in
Algebra because the teacher felt sorry
for me, as I had had an accident that
kept me out of school for a week, which
I never was able to make up.
I failed the Geometry class, along with
many other students, because the teacher
of that class was one of those who thought
the statement of a problem was sufficient
to explain all possible relationships within
the problem. When I asked for examples of
how a theorem might be used, he wrote more
problems on the blackboard and recited
the new formulas.
I gotta tell ya, fellow rotten aficionados,
I felt pretty damn stabby every time I walked
out of that class.

From: shaggsdaklown [shane]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 08:54

ya know, obviously this lady wasn't living high on life. if I were a 40 year old GED student, I wouldn't want to take shit either off some dumbass teacher. I'd get all sorts of stabby on a teacher's ass if I'd just gotten out of jail to find out you need a damn GED to flip burgers, now you are going to tell me I can't flip burgers because I can't figure out one fucking math problem? bitch, you gonna have to die so I can make those McDonalds paychecks!

From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 09:07

If you can't understand GED math, you should just stab yourself.....not your teacher.

From: saladtosser [Salad Tosser [Tossin' Salad]]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 10:07

wasn't she just in jail or something. Don't they have GED classes available in jail? why didn't she take her GED in jail? not enough shivs?

as for the race of the people involved --> Malcom X College says it all

and a 40 yr old GED student should just give up and kill herself (send pictures to rotten)

From: mikeisgreen [Mike]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 10:13

I still think that within 30 years half of all high school diplomas will be GED's.

From: maggpye [maggpye]
Date: 11-Jan-2007 15:32

oh man.

all the people that post on here make me laugh so hard that i feel the urge to tinkle.

oh, and...math makes me feel stabby too. and I'm not a GED student nor am I black. imagine that.

From: stevendakeys
Date: 11-Jan-2007 23:50

I guess you could say she really took a " stab" at solving the problem

From: annidez [annidez]
Date: 12-Jan-2007 10:37

I could not be any math-stabbier without becoming a felon. In grade school, I couldn't memorize the multipication tables. In jr. high I squeaked by with D minuses in every math class I took because, in typical fashion, they just want to push kids through the grades. Hell, lucky for me because at 39 I'd probably still be in seventh grade. I attempted algebra several times in high school, failed each time, wound up taking consumer math in the wood shop classroom (our teacher had 4 fingers missing and a filthy mouth, but fortunately he liked me and I graduated.) I spent the next seven years in junior college, first limping through remedial math and tutors, then failing/taking incompletes in algebra. Fuck it. I stopped trying, but took all the other GE courses & happily discovered that you can actually study fun things like creative writing and photography. For those years, I had great friends, a dynamic social life, but my self-esteem was for shit. I lived with my parents for much of it, just partying, figuring if I couldn't get a degree I'd wind up working at Shakey's (but never becoming manager because I couldn't balance the books). In the end, I got with a guy who encouraged me to take the SAT - he worked for the Princeton Review and tutored me for nothing. My score had me in the 99 percentile in Verbal and 63% in Math; I got into San Francisco State University, moved here alone, excelled. When I came to the end of my advanced GE work, I had to drop out of algebra twice to keep my GPA up. My counselor threw her hands up and told me since tutoring wasn't helping, I should visit the Disabilities department on campus. It was humiliating walking into the modular trailer and sitting with folks with physical and obvious mental disabilities, but desperation is a motivator. I was tested three times with logic problems like duplicating designs using two-tone blocks, repeating back series of numbers - I really tried since I know even if I faked it there would be psychological control questions. Finally they diagnosed me with dyscalculia which is similar in some ways to dyslexia. I turn digits around, can't remember phone numbers, struggle very hard to file documents numerically. I satisfied the requirement by taking a meteorology course and got my B.A. in English, retroactively applied for my A.A. in Photography and got it, moved on to grad school and was one of 10 of the 400+ who applied for the Creative Writing program that year, earned an M.F.A. and taught at SFSU for nearly two years. School is behind me now and I'm finally living a life that feels full of accomplishment (I'll be 40 this year.) I really hope that anyone with a child having trouble with a subject that they'll get them checked out very young and save the wasted time and suffering. Don't assume every time Little Johnny can't do something that it's society's fault, or that the kid isn't faking - but I remember clearly being young and knowing even then that it would be much easier to just do the work and avoid the yelling and shame.