My December to Remember: Day Nineteen
News: Teamsters union announce nationwide Amazon worker strike effective 6:00AM eastern.
United HealthCare CEO shooting suspect waives extradition to NYC, arrives back in Empire State.
Georgia appeals court disqualifies Fani Willis from prosecuting Trump’s election interference RICO case.
NYPost reports Biden White House hid his mental decline day one of his ‘presidency’ (gurl we knew).
“Skinny” CR reintroduced and will be voted on.
I think out of all the school subjects one can learn, math was one of my least favorites. I liked algebra because it was easy. Geometry wasn’t so bad, either. But math is one of those studies that is either one way or it isn’t. If you add two to two, you get four. Six and eight equal fourteen (I had to count on my fingers to make sure). It’s just a certain way. So if you don’t get the subject matter, coming to the one and only conclusion is largely dependent on who’s teaching you to get there.
In high school, I took a lot of AP classes. Mostly just to make Mom happy. But nothing ever really interested me in my later schooling years, something I’ve made mention of here plenty of times. One of those high school AP classes was AP Calculus. I look back at that sentence and wonder, “What was I thinking?!” Because at this point in time, I couldn’t even tell you what calculus is used for. Engineering? I don’t know. And I don’t care, as I choose to remain willfully ignorant on this one’s solution.
Either way, on the first day of Calc, I remember doing that thing I’m sure a lot of students do, where they’re ready for a new school year and ready to learn something new. I sat there in class wondering where this level of math would take me. It was only after a few classes did I realize I had no earthly idea what this teacher was talking about. She had an accent, which wasn’t her fault, but it made it very difficult for me to grasp the lessons. The concepts and equations were such that I couldn’t even take notes. Ask me what a calculus problem is and I’d have absolutely no idea. So when it came time for the midterm, I just bit the bullet and prepared for the inevitable F coming my way.
Oh, I failed alright. So did every single kid in class. Not a single person got a passing grade on the midterm. And you know what? The teacher blamed us for not understanding the material. I threw my hands up in defeat and dropped the class halfway through senior year. I don’t even remember what math class I took in its place, or if I even did. I might have sworn off number crunching right then and there for all I know, as I certainly didn’t continue my mathematical education past that point. But who was really at fault here, me for being brick stupid on math, or the teacher for not being an effective enough communicator?
I think for so long we’ve been under a sheen of incompetence, we’ll soon see what it’s like to have some effective leadership around here again. It’s going to be cringey, that’s for sure, between the sore winners and butthurt perpetual whiners, but I’ll take that, plus more money in my pocket, over whatever it was we all just went through. By my calculations, we’re well on the way to something we can all get behind, just as long as the right choices are made toward total productivity.
Getting blamed for ineffective leadership is just pure gaslighting, especially in an instance where one party holds the control. But maybe that’s all shifting. Maybe the “students” here can finally have a chance to take a stand. I don’t trust it fully as I sense a lot of smoke and mirrors are occurring, but those in charge are going to be answering to us from here on out. We just need to be as efficient as they are not, and the golden ratio will forever be on our side. It’s a mathematical certainty. I’ve checked my work on this one.
