The Jump on the main straight of the SJGP is a better track feature than the Corkscrew at Laguna.


EDIT: LATE NIGHT MADE ME LEAVE OUT WORDS.


Modified by alphajesse at 5:50 PM 8/2/2005


Modified by alphajesse at 5:58 PM 8/2/2005

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by alphajesse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The Jump on the main straight of the SJGP is a track feature than the Corkscrew at Laguna. </TD></TR></TABLE>I'm not sure that's a preposition, but it's not quite a sentence, either .

The corkscrew is a great corner requiring lots of skill, the jump at the SJGP just seems like a bad track-layout idea.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by alphajesse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">The Jump on the main straight of the SJGP is a track feature than the Corkscrew at Laguna. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Subject: "The Jump on the main straight of the SJGP"
Predicate: "is a track feature than the Corkscrew at Laguna"

This is a complete sentence. However, it doesn't make any sense. A jump is usually a small bump, whereas the Corkscrew at Laguna is a section of track with extensive elevation change. I.E. jump &lt;&lt; corkscrew. Also, the author shouldn't have used the "than", but instead, should have used something like "like".

 

insert "rather"

 

A question:

What the hell has happened to our school systems?

 

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What the hell has happened to our school systems?

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That was my thought as well.

 

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What the hell has happened to our school systems?

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when was it better? 'cause when I came to the US in '88, it already sucked donkey *****. (I lived US high school vicariously through my step-brother)

 

I never said it didn't suck before.
It just seems to suck more now.

We have a straight A 6th grade student in the house that doesn't know where Tennessee is located. We live in Georgia.
Straight As.

The Tennessee question got her some intensive home schooling with a map. Turns out that she could name the states but had no idea where they are.
Straight As...

 

i'll admit it. I have a public school education with a college degree, and spelling escapes me. *hangs head in shame*

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Catch 22 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I never said it didn't suck before.
It just seems to suck more now.

We have a straight A 6th grade student in the house that doesn't know where Tennessee is located. We live in Georgia.
Straight As.

The Tennessee question got her some intensive home schooling with a map. Turns out that she could name the states but had no idea where they are.
Straight As...
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I think that a lot of this is based on the proficiency testing that the schools are now required to do. Here in Ohio, I know that schools are spending months, not just weeks, preparing students on what they will encounter when taking the proficiency tests, thus not allowing teachers to hit all of the "normal" things that most of us grew up with.

This worries me a lot, as I have a 2 year old daughter, and if it is getting this bad now, I hate to see what it will be like in 10 years.

Just my $.02

 

&lt;- product of private British schooling. If I wrote something like that my principal would reach across the oceans and bitch slap me.

 

Not only that, but this school takes at least one or two field trips every six week period. When I was in 6th grade we took one or two trips A YEAR.

I wouldn't mind the trips, if, you know, Courtney knew that if she left the house and went east she'd hit an ocean. As it is I'd prefer they spend less time looking at indian mounds and aquariums, less time doing diversity and self esteem exercises, and more time actually learning stuff.
Sounds like I'm being a grumpy old man, but I'm not a big fan of 12 year olds who spend two days visiting a Civil war site not knowing what state they were in or really even knowing what the war was all about.
I asked her who won the American Civil War... She had to guess. She had a 50/50 shot and got it right.
Straight A's...

 

Dude half the people in the schools here think we got our independence from the French. Hey I blame the media, stop showing half naked chicks running around telling you school is bad and that you can get away with being stupid.

 

What's Tennessee? Some sort of exclusive raquet club?

 

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What the hell has happened to our school systems?

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An answer:

I'm thinking they went to hell in a handbasket about the time rap and Nintendo became popular. When a damn 7yo comes to school packing heat, it's time to move or consider home or private schooling.

Matt&lt;---had to memorize every preposition in the English language 20 years ago...

 

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Hey! Don't associate rap and Nintendo with violence in schools. I grew up owning some serious Mario Bros and listening to Dr. Dre and never heard of anything more than an occasional fight. I blame retarded people having children.

 

with home schooling you can have a wicked speller that will be well prepared for integration into the rest of society

Brian

 

Society? You mean those teenage boys and girls wanting to grow up to become the next *insert jailed murder rapper name here* and *insert dumb blonde pop singer name here*.

 

It's only the bad ones that make the news or get noticed, there are plenty more that are trying to be positive contributors to society. I deal with both ends of the spectrum coaching a high school sport.

Brian

 

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You may be onto something. Crack babies have some serious wiring problem in the head that don't present themselves fully until later in childhood.

 

I read where a Cali HS this year had 10% (no error there) of the class (44 kids) who we all tied for the Number #1 position.

Privite school is where it's at.

My 1st grade daughter had spelling tests every week and had to write a 7-8 sentence story about something and give a show and tell from memory every week. She came home one day with about 6 or 7 sheets of 8x14 paper of the different parts of the human body, skin, bones, major organs. This was in first grade!

Kids are sponges, get them wet.

 

SJR will appreciate the fact that I met a French server in a London resturant, who knew where Montana was on a US map. I tried to use the fact that I was born there as an excuse for using the wrong fork on my non-salad starter plate.

She patiently explained that being from the country was no excuse and tut-tutted me until we told here that we'd floated through her hometown the week before - Vezeley, I think it was. Then we were buddies.

Kirk (who evaluates US K-12 school programs for a living)

 

Back on topic, that was the worst track design I've ever seen. I think I've driven coursee that narrow before, but they were completely made of cones.

to Champ Car for that one.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Apocalypse &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Hey! Don't associate rap and Nintendo with violence in schools. I grew up owning some serious Mario Bros and listening to Dr. Dre and never heard of anything more than an occasional fight. I blame retarded people having children.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I have a 140+ I.Q. and I love both rap music and Nintendo (PS/2, whatever). The problem with public schools is that we cater to the lowest common denominator. I never got straight A's (never once); not because I couldn't, but because I wasn't interested enough. We need more ways for the brighter kids to be able to accel at their own rate. I experienced some of this in our schools, but it was on a per teacher basis, not school policy. Plus, it was way too few and far between. I spent most of my time sleeping through class in the back and still pulling A's on the tests. I had no idea what homework was until I got to college. All that I learned in high school was that you can get 80% of the grade for 30% of the work. That always sounded like a good trade off to me.

Anyway - I think the original proposition? was supposed to be "The Jump on the main straight of the SJGP is a better track feature than the Corkscrew at Laguna." To this I would say, "Are you out of your freaking mind?" Clearly you've never driven through the Corkscrew or you would never think to say something so silly. The bumps on the SJGP circuit were a flaw in the course design. The Corkscrew is one of the most unique and exciting turns on any course in the world.

- Scott

 

if you have an IQ of 140+ you'll know that using that "test" is bullshit since its bascially an ammount of knowledge measured/age. put it away. its not a personal attack i sware... i just cant stand it when people whip out the IQ like it actually means something now. it did at the time the test was taken, any time later, pooh because it just goes down