Frazz by Jef Mallett for May 22, 2015

And vice versa. Remember the Tiger Mom who wrote that book?

Ha, even I could’ve shimmed that. The teacher missed an opportunity to teach her a valuable lesson: How to shim.

Considering that Japan has a word that specifically means “death from overwork” (Karōshi), that sort of “work ethic” isn’t necessarily something to admire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi

I don’t know about Finland though…

Nabuquduriuzhur, Teachers like that don’t exist much any more. Now they work in teams and coordinate assignments so that doesn’t happen…

I wonder what the correlation between the people who claimed to have had too much homework and low or failing grades would be.

Though grades are important, I don’t think there is a little kid alive who would rather be sitting in class in the afternoon on a friday than running free outside on the long weekend.

Desks like that don’t need to be shimmed. By spinning the feet they extend in and out so you can adjust each leg height independently.

Two years ago our school district issued an edict to limit homework (at the middle and high school level) to no more than 10% of the overall grade. I usually only assign once a week (twice if there’s a unit test coming). Still, it’s a challenge to coordinate between four or five core classes.Besides, at this point in the year (8 days of instruction left, but it’s not like I’m counting), most grades are pretty much set and the middle school version of senioritis is in full flower.

Whether you do 5 or 50 math problems, if you get most of them right, then you know the rules of the operation the problems involve. Of course, now that Common Core denigrates learning actual rules of math and concentrates on ‘critical thinking’ (which is great sounding yet very fuzzy and subjective), it doesn’t work that way so there’s no real objective standard of mastery.

kroykali: How much of the avionics you work on now even existed when you were in school, or are you a recent graduate?

Finland has more hours of recess every day than US kids get. A break between each subject.

“Certain things”? In a comic strip panel that’s reproduced the size of a book of matches you need to be more specific. I don’t get this one at all.

It’s a visual medium, but the visuals sometimes need to be far more clear.