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BillTre reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with
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Stupid does not mean what you seem to think it means. Is that the goal? Productivity? Not, say, work/life balance? or happiness? Are... -
BillTre reacted to sevensages's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with
Skeptical.
There are a couple of things that we can do to incentivise people to want to be teachers: 1# Raise property taxes to increase teachers'... -
BillTre reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
My experience was different. I saw my friends plenty during summer vacation--in fact it was nicer for me because I could see them...
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BillTre reacted to Choppy's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
There is research on this topic. See for example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8356518/ "Students at single‐track YRE...
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BillTre reacted to PeroK's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with
Wow.
@jbriggs444 many years ago, I was watching the US Open Tennis. Andy Roddick was playing Giles Muller from Luxembourg. The commentators... -
BillTre reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
Man, I hate the word 'stupid'. It's meaningless and unimaginative. Can we work a little on more descriptive terms? What's 'stupid'...
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The text says: I once was a truck.
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BillTre replied to the thread Random Photos.
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BillTre reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
:eek: Do you think your idea of common sense is the same as mine?
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BillTre reacted to Janus's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
In other words, kids shouldn't be allowed to be kids. And I question whether you'd get that much of an improvement. I think it would...
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BillTre reacted to PeroK's post in the thread A three month long summer vacation from public school seems stupid with Like.
I guess that's debatable. When I was at school, the summer break was about six weeks.
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BillTre reacted to SleipnirTheHorse's post in the thread The Chinese early experiments in Rocketry -- Do we owe them? with Skeptical.
Ok, I guess my philosophical beliefs don't agree with yours?
