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Squidslinger Gilder:
I wanted to but I didn't think I'd pass the math to do it. I transferred school districts at the time algebra was to be taught. The district I went into was already ahead. Played catch up but lost all the base instruction I should have had. Pretty much blew me out of the water for piloting or game dev. Although I did get into a programming class in Jr.High and handled it fine, was real good at it too. But HS they wouldn't let me.

School is supposed to encourage kids but not me. Every time I told them what I wanted to do, they'd tell me I couldn't. Then I got into college and finally learned some of the stuff they told me I couldn't learn. Sigh...California public schools...holding kids back since the early 90s when they got rid of making education fun and brought in the test or die style of education.

Sennan Farguard IV:

--- Quote from: Gilder Unfettered on December 22, 2013, 03:18:15 am ---I wanted to but I didn't think I'd pass the math to do it. I transferred school districts at the time algebra was to be taught. The district I went into was already ahead. Played catch up but lost all the base instruction I should have had. Pretty much blew me out of the water for piloting or game dev.
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You've played Skies of Arcadia, so take Vyse's advice to Marco: never give up! I was always in the advanced math courses as a kid, and then a similar scenario occurred in high school and I fell far behind. Due to that, I went into nursing, but just recently decided to change careers and now I'm on track for an engineering degree. I started with the basics of mathematics to give myself a proper foundation again, as it's been nearly ten years since I graduated from high school, and I'm having a blast with the maths and sciences.

Squidslinger Gilder:
Yeah I was GATE program eligible in grade school but the program in this city was a big scam to get kid's parents to donate money to the district under the guise of AP level stuff. Friend of mine went into it. He regretted it. They had them doing more fundraising crap than actual learning and what was worse, they'd remove the kid from the program if they stopped doing whatever the program directors required.

Yeah when I took stuff again in college for a degree I did in a semester what I couldn't do in prolly 4-6 years of reg school.

From all of that it taught me one important thing...that K-12 education is 90% meaningless. Wish I had started in college.

Good to see another SoA fan. There is probably a handful of us in this game.

macmacnick:
Heh, the Californian Education system isn't very different... the GATE program was basically Useless(it did nothing) the district system is horrid; Transferred to a charter school, and haven't gone back, as it is hugely more efficient.

Squidslinger Gilder:
I wish I had. Probably would have appreciated school better. Had a horrific teacher in 3rd grade. She said she taught college too and overloaded us with homework nightly. Said it was for our own good and that we needed to be ready for the future. Wish I had transferred out of her class like others did. But no, I had to stay to be with the cute girl I had a crush on which I never had contact with again after 5th grade. Man kids are stupid to wreak their lives over a pretty face :D.

Whats worse, the district I transferred to later, held the same mindset she did. Jr.High overloaded us and had that excuse. That we needed to be worked to the bone because that is what high school was like. High school was mostly opposite but some of the teachers overloaded the kids and claimed that we needed to face the pressure because college was worse. Then I hit college...overwhelming urge to visit all those old teachers and slap them with lawsuits for ruining my childhood. Zomg college was complete heaven compared to them.

Public education can collapse for all I care. Sigh...sorry to all the teachers who may be in here. Child of teachers too but really, public education did more to ruin my life than it did to help.

Stay tuned folks, coming up next week I discuss Shakespeare and why I'd rather sit around watching monkeys eat bugs off each other for hours than listen or watch 5 mins of Shakespeare.

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