Already knew that. As you’re also putting smileys after everything to show us how you really feel! Very teenage girl on a phone style. :lovin:
Bootsy said it first & the best, you’re just talking gay stuff. Lets not lose his message here,
with your limited -no time given to-it; quick post retort reply- version of things.
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With enough willpower and guts you can change how you think and act.
Personally, I was never taught common core, but in the computation of numbers(mental math), I was using the system they call ‘common core’ by pure coincidence. It is much more useful off paper than it is on-paper, or basically in a situation where you don’t have paper and pencil, or a calculator.
Like let’s say hypothetically that you were trying to calculate how much money you would have left after buying something with cash(assume no tax).
I have $35.00 and an item costs $18.07, how much money do I have left?
First, I would add 93 cent to 18.07 so I can get a whole dollar amount of $19.00. Then I’ll add $16.00 to that $19.00 I just got in order to get $35.00 again.
$.93 + $16.00= $16.93
That’s how much money I’ll have left. Doing it this way allows you to work with whole numbers only. Also, I didn’t have to do any borrowing in order to get my answer. The goal is to get back to your original number.
Now let’s trying doing this the other way(working forward instead of backwards, still mental math only, no calculator, no pencil, no paper)
First I would substract $.07 from $35.00, which will give me $34.93(after some borrowing if I did this with pencil and paper). Then I will subtract $18.00 from $34.93 which will give me $16.93(with some borrowing if I did this with pencil and paper).
Doing it with this thing they call the ‘common core’ method makes mental math easier and in my opinion it would encourage children to try working with math without writing it down.
EDIT: Adding is also easier than substraction which would be another plus for this method.
There are so many people(by people I mean adults) out there that can’t follow math(even down to basic arithmetic) if you don’t write it down for them. Even people in advanced math classes will look at you with the glassy eye blank stare if you dare to do basic arithmetic without writing it down.
Just because most adults are at the point of no return as far as mental math, they shouldn’t try to throw their children in the same sinking boat as them.
Why should I have to? Why do I need to be something I am clearly not? I didn’t choose to be attracted to a guy, I was simply walking down the hallway in HS one day and saw this boy that I for some reason found stunningly attractive. I didn’t choose to, it just hit me. I came to terms with it realizing it wasn’t problem, that there was nothing wrong with it. I didn’t choose it, it just was.
I guess you can choose to deny the way you feel but why?
All that aside being able to change doesn’t mean you chose to be the way you initially are.
Please stop it. There’s no free will
You can decide early on whether or not you choose to accept or reject the way that you feel about people of the same sex.
You can but that doesn’t mean you chose to have those initial feelings in the first place. Choosing to reject the feelings you have is not the same as choosing to have those feelings in the first place.
I get that people don’t like everything that common core is teaching (and I’m not sure how they arrived at the curriculae for this stuff) but we DESPERATELY need some sort of common education in this country. Part of the reason education is such a mess is because every state does it differently. You have some states that have rational people at the helm, then you have others with a bunch of bible-thumping yahoos trying to work creationism into the curriculum. The US NEEDS to have a standardized education system if it’s going to compete with the rest of the world in the future.
BTW homosexuality isn’t a choice. Why the fuck would someone actively choose a lifestyle that would leave them marginalized at best and dead at worst?