Tonight:
A story from New York State about teachers giving “half credit” to students who get wrong answers in math classes, but “used the right methodology” to get these wrong answers. How does this help students? Is this a result of class sizes and low resources? Lazy teachers? Cultural demise? Isn’t failure as important as succeeding when it comes to learning/growing experiences? Are we making the next generation dumber than Sarah Palin? Discuss.
Peter Cetera is coming, Peter Cetera is coming! Details in the 5 o’clock hour.
Question of the week: If you were the POTUS, what would you do to fix the mess in the Gulf?
Your calls are welcome.
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Oh and If I were Obama :
1. I’d fire myself, and pray Biden still has some cajones left.
2. It appears some international vessels are FINALLY being requisitioned for clean up, despite an outpouring of international aid offers WEEKS ago…If I were Obama, I would have said “yes” weeks ago to countries like Taiwan, Sweeden, Denmark, the Netherlands, Japan. I would make sure that even today, we are not saying “No” to these offers. The excuse of “It’s crowded in the Gulf” is absurd. The slick is well over a hundred square miles in size now. Plenty of room.
3. The rationalization that “BP are the ones with the technology, know-how and experience” to clean this up is no excuse for letting them see this through. Demand the knowledge, the lesson learned from previous experience, and say to BP “You wanna apply for any future deep-water wells in Northern waters or in the Gulf ? Yeah…we get to borrow your stuff. We’re liable for the condition of it when we return n’ stuff, but we’re totally borrowing it.”
…those are just a few things…
I agree that failure is probably just as important as success in learning. I can only comment on my own experience, but whenever I have failed at something, and then was made to understand why I failed, I usually learned quite a bit more from that experience than if I were to just succeed all the time.