Saw a post the other day: "I'm so glad I learned what a parallelogram is and NOT how to do my taxes in school."
Generally, people who say such things don't know what a parallelogram is OR how to do their taxes. They have been failed twice. They were presented with the signifiers of a liberal […]
Generally, people who say such things don't know what a parallelogram is OR how to do their taxes. They have been failed twice. They were presented with the signifiers of a liberal […]
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This thread seems to have touched a nerve...
I would love to know how you locals feel about Doctorow's take on your tax system: You aren't _supposed_ to understand it:
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/11/doubling-up-on-paperwork/#rip-freefile
Here at the bottom of Africa, it gets […]
when I was in grades k-12, I think I was probably in more classes of over 40 students than under 20 students. And any class of under 20 students was a "gifted" or "honors" class, often taught by a teacher who was giving up their prep period to teach the class.
I am really enjoying the thoughtful and artistic view of math and really do think we could do a lot more engaging and fun math classes with that view in […]
The kids would be bored out of their eyeballs. I do teach my seniors […]
the high school I went to required a "personal finance" class. And it included a section for federal taxes, and a section on state taxes. Unfortunately, the textbook in question was 23 years out of date, and the state taxes section was made for a state that did their taxes quite […]
When I see that meme what I take from it is that a lot of people remember the word "parallelogram" from math class and they don't know what the significance […]
They are trying to get rid of efile. A blatant hand-out to these firms.