"PocoLoco" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:28:11 GMT, "Doug Kanter"

wrote:


"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:53:55 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:

He was bitching loudly that this was not physics, this was
math, and even though he got a 99 in AP math this past spring, he was
finding this a bit challenging. I calmed him down with a strawberry
smoothie, and suggested that his physics teacher assigned this stuff to
blow
the summer cobwebs out of their brains, and evaluate who was going to be
challenged when the real physics began, like..next week. His response:
"Nice
slam, dad. You think we don't use our brains all summer?"

Tell him this - he is about to enter the realm of pure mathematics and
if he thinks this is not "physics", he's about to learn a very
interesting lesson. Yes there are experiments, yes there is hands
one, yes you observe. But you have to describe these things and the
only way you can do that is mathematically.

Has he taken pre-calculus yet?

He's taking pre-calc this year. And, AP English (so he doesn't become
president), social studies, French (after a 2 year hiatus during which he
forgot everything), swim team, track team, working one job. Out of his
mind,
but he enjoys it.


I wish more people had sons like yours!

Me too. He's one of the few kids his age who understand that if you're a
cashier at a grocery store, you do not under ANY circumstances give a
customer a bag for a package of gum.