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If you aren't traveling far, Baked Brie is easy and delicious. I don't bother cutting off the dough corners, I just wrap it over and squish it together. I don't use the egg wash either. It's fine with just cheese and dough. Serve with Carr's crackers.

:iagree::iagree::iagree: This is what I use. Its fantastic. I use chocolate chips instead of nuts, and I don't make the topping.

This was the first name I thought of. Love it!

I'm selling a red one, used, in great shape, if you are interested.

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This is why I try not to judge people when they do really, really stupid things. Who knows what kind of trauma they've had that permanently damaged their circuitry. :sad:

This was going to be my suggestion too. I'd suggest the 4 volume set if you could find it for a reasonable price. Amazon has it for $250.:eek:

If they are using "reform" math curricula, it would still suck even if they only did it for 45 minutes. Tons of information out there about fuzzy math. NYC HOLD How Not to Teach Math Illinois Loop

Hi Alley, CDC recommends that all close contacts of pertussis patients, regardless of vaccine status, receive antibiotics within 3 weeks of exposure. However, there is debate about what would qualify as close exposure. Even if your kids are up to date, there is a good chance they are not immune. The vaccine doesn't protect everyone, and it wears off fairly rapidly. I would urge you to discuss it with your kids' doctor.

You beat me to it. Now I'm going to have that line stuck in my head all day.

I don't believe that there is anything wrong with the kids' brains. Once they start afterschooling or homeschooling, go to Kumon, receive tutoring, etc. they do just fine. Of course there are individual kids who will struggle no matter what. But in general, the problem is the curriculum.

Our local elementary schools spend an outrageous amount of time on math. The curriculum stinks. They could get it done in half the time with better results if they'd use a decent curriculum. PS math is the main reason we started homeschooling.

Dear Nance, I :001_wub: you.

I hope she is just hiding the boy from the dad to keep him safe. But if this is the case she could have come up with a better story.

I agree with this, but since technical jobs are more plentiful, and will be even more so in the future, there will be more opportunities for people with math skills than those without.

Mine is similar: "Is it better to be right or to be kind?" My mom never said it though. I thought I made it up. :) I probably heard it on this board at some point and appropriated it.

My dh was the assistant director of a family practice medical residency program for many years. He was very closely involved with their training and education, and had exposure to many residents over the years. (These would be medical school graduates, doing their 3 year residency to become family practice physicians.) I told him about this thread, and asked him his opinion of the residents' overall writing skills. Although he rarely saw anything they actually wrote, he estimates that about 70% had poor writing skills, based on their dictations in the patients' charts. I would have guessed about half, but he says it was much worse than that. I think the people that really rise to the top of their profession (program directors, administrators, professors, etc.) would certainly need to excel at writing. But for the majority, good writing skills are optimal and desirable, but uncommon and not absolutely necessary.

No, specialists do residencies in their area (ophthalmology, surgery, psychiatry, etc.) People who want to subspecialize do fellowships, like cardiology or pediatric ophthalmology. A fellowship is also essential for people who want to do academic medicine. I don't know how many physicians do fellowships. I doubt if writing ability is much of an issue when applying for a fellowship though.

If you're good at both you can pretty much do anything you want. But that wasn't one of the choices. :D If you aren't good at math it would be very, very hard to get into medical school. But if you take the right undergrad classes, you could easily get through college without doing much writing. The only writing sample the medical school admissions committee will ever see is the application essay, and anyone with any sense would get help with it, if they have weak writing skills. So weak writing skills wouldn't necessarily keep you from being a doctor. It would, however, keep you from being a researcher or professor of medicine.

Most doctors don't get fellowships or grants anyway. Only those in academia do. Most doctors in regular practice do very little writing.

I guess it depends on what level of writing skill we're talking about. I know many people in the medical field who aren't good writers, although they get by fine. They do have basic writing skills though-- it isn't as if they can't write at all.

I don't see that at all. People are talking about job opportunities and employability, not about getting rich! :glare: Here's a list from US News of the "50 best careers of 2011" People who can't do math can cross most of these off their list. People who can't write well could still do most of them.

Math. If you can't do math, all the STEM fields are essentially closed to you. There aren't nearly as many jobs available to people whose only strength is writing.