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Just when feminists and parents were pulling out their hair because the Mattel Barbie was reinforcing dumb-girl stereotypes right and left, moaning "math is hard," Brooks and Dunn were praising their "Little Country Girl," who got dirty looks in high school because "she got an A in math and never cracked a book...
...club at Patrick Henry High certainly would. The group was founded two years ago with encouragement but no specific stage managing by local youth pastors. This afternoon its faculty adviser, a math teacher and Evangelical Free Church member named Sara Van Der Werf, sits silently for most of the meeting, although she takes part in the final embrace. The club serves as an emotional bulwark for members dealing with life at a school where two students died last year in off-campus gunfire. Today a club member requests prayer for "those people who got in that big fight [this morning...
...twice. The first time because my math teacher was writing on the blackboard and her butt was kind of jiggling and I was laughing. It was freshman year. The girl next to me asked me why I was laughing and I told her and she started laughing too. Then the rest of the class started laughing and Ms. Debil turned around and stared at us and everyone stared at me and she said, "Tom, what is going on?" and I said, "Everyone is laughing because your butt was jiggling...
...friend tells me of a foreign language section in which students can barely bring themselves to do more than mumble. Another person I know recently showed up for an evening math section and wound up with a private tutorial; the original eight students had, throughout the semester, finally dwindled...
...blatant lack of research done by Talia Milgrom-Elcott for her April 20 column, "Randomization Reassessed." In Milgrom-Elcott's attempt to show the fluctuations and extremes of house populations before randomization, she claims that before Mather was a home for "steroids" it was a "house for science and math nerds. In fact, Mather house used to be a haven for humanities concentrators and, in particular, homosexual humanities concentrators. I do not remember seeing more than a handful of "science and math nerds" (to borrow the author's phrase) in Mather during my undergraduate years. This lack of research...