School again?
By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
13 responses
@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
16 Sep 17
Your Honour, the road conditions were dry and visibility was excellent. From the evidence gathered at the scene, it appears that both parties were using their phones at the time of the accident, which happened at precisely 5:40 am. It seems that they had both set out to solve an abstruse math problem in their sons' homework which could have easily been done by elementary algebra, had they not forgotten all that they learned in school.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
16 Sep 17
@pgntwo Yes, I did actually.. It's a simple enough problem. Both must have driven for the same time when they pass each other, so that length of time is the unknown. Also, when they pass each other the total distance travelled by the two cars must be 50 miles. You only have to work out how far A and B will have travelled in x hours, add those distances and put them equal to 50, rearrange the terms to bring x to one side and the known quantities to the other and you have the answer (x = 2/3, which is 40 minutes). 
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
16 Sep 17
I have two degrees and one license so a total of three profession. I love studying and I want to go back to school again to learn another new thing.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
17 Sep 17
@pgntwo I went to a university where professors were fond of giving trick questions. One professor even had just one question during a major exam and that question was, WHY?
Only one student passed that exam and her answer was, BECAUSE.
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
6 Oct 17
You know, Calvin does have a valid point there!
Whether I would survive being back in school again would depend on a few things, pgn...
1. Would the same teachers I had back then still be my teachers now?
2. Would the same people I knew before be the ones I am serving time with again
... uhm... I mean, will the same brilliant people I was in class with before be back with me again
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3. Oh, my! Would I be back in that same building again, too?
4. Am I expected to actually learn anything this time around?
5. Is there a possibility I could simply show up for roll call and then leave... or better yet, may I simply call in and report I am present without ever actually showing up at all? (I could see my way clear to making a small daily donation to your favorite charity, if this was possible. I assume your favorite charity is still the bank account you had me send the last set of daily donations to, right
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6. No, I honestly don't believe I would survive going back to school again, pgn...
Especially not if the cadavers of my former teachers were supposed to teach me anything other than how to attract flies and lie quietly day in and day out. Possibly a bigger challenge for me would be the no longer extant building my classes were in, too... SMH! (I'm not sure how that would even work?)
I might make it through a few days, as long as items 4 and 5 could be worked out in my favor, though. (If I have to give up my job to return to school, your daily donation amount will begin to suffer after the second or third day, anyway... *sigh!* That's not going to cause any problems, is it?
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@DaddyEvil (137259)
• United States
9 Oct 17
@pgntwo Hmmm....
4. Yes, I tend to learn whether I want to or not. I just seem to absorb information without very much effort. I can then regurgitate it at a later date (usually) without fail. (I do tend to check my facts since I started taking the pain meds, though.)
5. No, not really, at least here. Basically, all that is needed here is keep your kid at home and out of public sight. (This is only so some nosy neighbor doesn't believe you AREN'T homeschooling your child and reporting that to the local prosecuting attorney. Even if you are reported, normally nothing is done about it.)
I know several families who are homeschooling their children. Two families actually do abide by the rules and regulations found here: . Two other families don't bother following those. As far as I can tell, the kids are relatively stupid, but no worse than some of the people I went to school and graduated with... *sigh!* (I keep my nose out of their business.)
The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education does NOT regulate or monitor home schooling in Missouri. There is no need to call the Department when you decide to home school.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
11 Oct 17
@DaddyEvil I don't understand the thing with home schooling.... it takes all-sorts, I guess. 
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
8 Oct 17
1. No.
2. No.
3. No.
4. Would you, that's the question.
5. I think the enforcement of attendance is even greater today, somehow.
6. Me neither.
Calvin hits the nail on the head, as usual - learning in school was rarely "applied" to the everyday.
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@xFiacre (13018)
• Ireland
16 Sep 17
@pgntwo I seem to remember a Billy Connolly joke where a school boy has to divide a herd of pigs equally between four fields and the answer was four and a half pigs in each. The teacher was pleased that the boy got the right answer, but the boy was disconcerted.
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@JudyEv (340019)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Sep 17
@pgntwo The best compared to now. When my generation left school, we had a huge choice of jobs so you picked the one with the best/longest holidays.. University education was free and ice-creams were only sixpence a cone - and that was chocolate-coated!
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@crossbones27 (49463)
• Mojave, California
16 Sep 17
Hell no, did you read the one I said I took an economics class. Could strangle everyone with how ignorant it was. College and all, pissed me straight off and 200,000 for that for the good ones. Bunch of lies we live on.
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What do economists know anyway? 
@Freelanzer (10743)
• Canada
18 Sep 17
I don't know how I survived it back in the day much less today.
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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17 Sep 17
I won't, because I can't actually drive. I'd have had an accident probably, soon after leaving home. I hope he knows CPR.
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@owlwings (43910)
• Cambridge, England
18 Sep 17
@pgntwo I understand that CPR, amongst the Public Transport Operatives comunity, refers to "Customer PONG Rating". 'PONG' in its turn stands for "Personal Odour Niff Grading". This is a fairly complex scale which requires a 3 day course to learn its competent assessment. It is one of the reasons why most buses have a partial glass screen between the driver and the passengers to filter the strongest odours. PTOs are permitted to stop the vehicle and remove any passengers with too high a PONG if the average CPR exceeds a certain limit.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
17 Sep 17
I had to read that response a couple of times to parse it into context, @Poppylicious.
Ah, Miss Jones, you could be permitted to use public transport for the journey, but factoring in bus stops and the numbers of individuals boarding and disembarking the bus, not to mention those without correct change or a with a multi-use smart card, the variability of journey time would prove limiting. @Owlwings takes no account of this, of course 
Bus drivers may be familiar with CPR, BTW.
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@Mistletoe11 (206)
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16 Sep 17
If I would be given a chance, i would like to study again. Or if time capsule exists, i would go back to the past and tell myself to listen to my teachers.
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