keyword being "official". his uniform with the twin suns squadron insignia? making out with your commanding officer after she directly went against your uncle's orders to retreat and instead stayed back in a dogfight to make sure you got out alive? one otp to rule them all.
i'm such a geek.
"I am appalled that an examination committee could set such a difficult paper which gives the competent student little chance to show what they know," said Keith Hartmann, who has been the head of mathematics at several NSW schools.
"One girl said to me, 'I don't know why I bothered.' You try to encourage these children to do the course and to push themselves but an exam like this doesn't give the less capable students a real chance to show what they know. It surely can't be too difficult for such clever examiners to set a task where such students can score at least 50 per cent." - Keith Hartmann
Worth noting that Mr. Keith Hartmann is a repeat offender, having previously called for 2 Unit Maths to be dumbed down back in 1999 (source)
I have trouble understanding why Mr. Hartmann is a teacher at all. He doesn't appear to think like one, and based on the problems he and his students are having with fairly trivial material, he obviously isn't performing as one either.
HSC Maths exams are about testing whether you can apply your knowledge of the material to solve a problem - if so, you should be able to undertake further studies in the subject at a tertiary level. They're not about getting a mark greater than 50 and then patting yourself on the back.
You can't encourage kids to further develop by dumbing down their curriculum. If they can't handle the curriculum after they've put in 99.99% effort, then you're probably teaching them wrong and/or they have a legitimate learning disability that needs to be addressed. And for the students who are being taught correctly but are not inclined to put in 99.99% effort? Chances are they should be studying/doing something else.
There are other issues with Mr. Hartman's comments (calling students "less capable"? Demanding the lowering of education standards?) but I haven't the patience to write a complete dressing down.
But if these kids truly found their test to be too difficult, first year-level university maths would definitely be too much for them. They'd have a long way to go in bridging that knowledge gap before they can even dream of undertaking higher education in science/tech/engineering disciplines (as well as many others).
Their task now should be to objectively judge their own performance/skill-level in the subject based on their final HSC results. Depending on how they go, they may wish to consider enrolling in a maths bridging program over the summer to fix the gap in their education that has resulted from lazy teaching/teachers and the associated low standards that they've encouraged.
gotta listen to the original on repeat so that i know it for the next time i go k-ing.
re-watching season 10. seeing tess with clone!alexander makes me think they could have let her end up training conner kent. she was getting ready to dress up for the wedding and everything :'(
the only consolation is knowing that there's alt!tess in clark luthor's reality:
@alseptien
@costas_22 She's alive and well in E2. And happy that Clark L isn't such an ass anymore . : )
and i'm sure that no matter which reality she exists in, tess mercer is a guaranteed bamf.
edit: she put stationery in the first aid cabinet :( she's so freaking adorable.
it was perfect without actually being perfect
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