Are you sure that figure is correct (per annum)? That's several times what it would be where I live.

I just read a fantastic book, that I think all musical lovers will like: "The Secret Life of the American Musical". It helps explain the standard structure of musicals with lots of examples. Maybe not a spine, but a great read for what sounds like a very fun class.

I'd be curious as to why a student who has apparently had little to no exposure to biology has such a distaste for it. Seems like if the bio course was tuned just right, it would align with his hockey interest, including subjects like the human skeleton system, musculature, and what, exactly, causes used hockey gear to stink so much.

I'm not sure what you are asking here. If you are asking "Assuming that completely self-driving cars are at least as safe as humans, and, somehow, affordable, would you want one". My answer is "YES!". If you are asking "Do you think that completely self-driving cars will be as safe as humans and affordable in my lifetime, my answer is "I'm not so sure".

The Olympic equestrian events are co-ed. As is the winter sport of curling. Perhaps more interesting, there are the "mixed" events, with a co-ed team. Pairs figure skating, etc. It isn't an Olympic event yet, but there are "mixed relays" in world championship swimming, where the team must consist of two men and two women.

She is wise beyond her years.

That all depends on who is in the room where it happens, the room where it happens...

I like this answer. I want to teach my kids to be numerate, so this is the answer I'd like to see them think about. Others might be: The Eiffel tower is about 300 meters tall. Let's call it 500 meters to make the math easy. If there were 5 billion lights, that means there would be about 10 million lights per meter of the tower, which there clearly can't be. How much would 5 billion light bulbs cost to purchase? Let's assume they'd be $1 (or 1 Euro) each. You know, because they'd be buying in bulk. There's no way one would spend $5 billion just on lights.

As a somewhat disinterested American, the fascinating thing about the vote to me, is that the issue doesn't break down along tradition party lines. (Correct me if I'm wrong on this). Without getting too much into politics, I think we are seeing similar things in the US, where both parties are having a hard time holding their various factions together.

I agree. You'd have to pay me a whole lot more than that to get me up there...

Jenny's Latin: https://www.amazon.com/Jenneys-First-Latin-program-English/dp/0205078591

I think it is hard to understand the context of these statistics. Clearly, there are way more applications per candidate than before, so applications should be up across the board. Also, I think (please correct me if I'm wrong), the total number of high school graduates, and the number of graduates interested in going to college has been going up faster than the number of open places for freshmen has been going up.

Is your screen brightness on full blast? I set mine to auto-brightness.

On Android, if you go to "Settings", then find "Battery", there's "Battery Usage" button which will tell you which apps have used what percentage of the battery. Sometimes, apps go crazy, and a restart of the phone will help.

The tricky part of the above approach is a lack of graded-appropriate materials in Latin. With, say, French, you can use all kind of children's books, intermediate readers, TV shows, songs, trips to Quebec, etc. However, for Latin, the approach has always been "race to Vergil". The equivalent approach in English would have kids memorize some vocab, learn some grammar, then try to read Shakespeare line by line. There just isn't a lot of intermediate Latin material out there to get immersers from the basics to the advanced. Lingua Latina, especially the second book, is one such, but to find more, you need to dig through 100 year old classic readers, and the majority of those are pretty elementary.

The South Bend Chocolate Company offers factory tours. Maybe too indoorsy for your need, but might be nice if the weather is bad.

Well, I don't know your dd, but I would be less supportive on working for a particular political campaign than for a cause. With a campaign, if her candidate loses, will that trigger her illness? And even if the candidate wins, then what? But with a cause, instead of a candidate (i.e. "Save the Whales", not "Cruella deVille for Dogcatcher"), maybe there's less opportunity for a big setback, and it can be worked on slowly over a longer period of time.

Frankly, I'm a bit dismayed by this quote. I'd like to think that the high school years are still for learning, not solely a college resume-building experience or for four years of partying. High school may be the last time a student sees a wide variety of topics. Even if my kids aren't going into a STEM field, I want them to have a good handle on the basics of physics, if only to understand why kinetic energy means that increasing your speed by 10 mph in a car can be a very big deal in an accident. I want them to understand the basics of biology, if only to help them make medical decisions about themselves and their own families in the future. I want them to understand the basics of statistics, which is vital to making sense of so many news stories. I want them to get a good handle on at least one foreign language, so that they understand and can interact with other cultures. Even if they don't go to college at all, and perhaps especially if they don't, I'd still want them to understand all of the above and more.

I like this a lot, but I wonder what the age range of the students is, and if that's part of the problem? 30 minutes per week sure isn't much time. In addition to reefgazer, I would add that students have the right to fail, but the failing students don't have the right to slow the rest of the class down to their level. I would require some tangible evidence of homework to be shared with you before class starts, and everyone who has done the homework gets to participate in class and the fun interactive stuff, and everyone else can sit quietly in the back and do the homework themselves. I would offer to help everyone who asked after class.

I don't think it is necessary, but I do find it useful. Using a web site like goodreads or librarything makes it easy, and allows us to remember books that the older ones have read that now a younger might now like, or to look for favorite authors that might have new books out, or to share recommendations with friends and peers.

The Philadelphia Story Roman Holiday Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers

Maybe this is more a result of "every college does things differently", rather than "the kids these days". When I rode my dinosaur to college, there were lots of five credit classes, including most of the calculus sequence, many of the lab sciences, and the intro to foreign languages. A quick check now shows this is still true. Given that some colleges are on a semester calendar, some on a trimester, some on quarters, and all the other difference between colleges, I think it is hard to generalize across colleges and universities. Also, as long as a student needs 120 total credits to graduate, I don't think it changes the student's expenses if the 120 credits come from 60 two credit classes or 20 six credit classes.

Note that Stanford did immediately kick him off the swim team, and off of campus, even before the conviction, and it is very unlikely that USA Swimming will allow him to participate in the Olympic trials this summer.

Once you are in a regimen where there is 'extra credit' on a test, you have to accept that the percentage awarded isn't a pure mathematical construct anyway.

What a fascinating question! In addition to what others have said, (and my French isn't as strong as my Latin...), it seem like 24 out of 40 points is "passing" on the exams? I assume this is an entrance exam of some sort? So, it seems like even if you haven't covered things like the ablative absolute, the student could still pass this exam, depending on how strictly is is graded. I was also surprised to see a cultural section on the exam. Typically, in the United States, we wouldn't see those on our standardized tests. In the etymology section, it was fun to see the French words of Latin origin, which are also at home in English: regicide, pedicure, capitale, virile