Why do you think schools in America are under funded?
The problem is funding. When money is dedicated to the education sector it rarely reaches the places it is needed most. Teachers are under paid and under appreciated. Many schools are forced to spend money on feeding low income children breakfast and lunch rather than using the $ for school supplies. It's easy to blame a lack of money for the problems facing our school systems. But there are many social factors that affect the policies that drive the school system forward. Bureaucracy prevents our tax dollars from reaching the places they need to go.
I have a kindle fire and my parents wont let me buy books. What should I do?
I'm turning 17 in a few days and its not like I have a credit card but I HAVE cash. My personal cash from Christmas presents that id like to save but I asked my parents if I could just get an amazon giftcard so I could buy books with my money on my kindle hut they said no Bc they want me to save it for when I need books for school or something. Wff? They're my parents. First of all, they ought to provide for me so they ought to be buying my school books and second- I don't even need any more books for school for the year. I asked for a nook for Christmas so I could 'borrow' them or read them for free at b&n but they got me a kindle fire instead Bc they thought it was better and yeah there are free books on the kindle but I want others. I love reading so the point of this wasn't to use this device as an ipad or whatever. I want to read!! Wtf? I'm about to just tell them to return it for being so difficult. This isn't what I had in mind. At all.
As an engineering student, should I buy books or borrow from a library?
You should definitely buy them. As an Engineering student, you will remain so for the rest of your life. To know is something, to understand is another. Most of what you do in college is to know (sort of). Some time after college, you'll read the same thing, it'll click and you'll finally understand. The thought had been maturing, you kept revisiting it an learning other things, and light was shed on a subject matter from enough different angles to make its shape and nature fully reveal themselves to you. A phrase sometimes is enough.Also, I beg you to work harder. I wish I had. You'll regret it later. Master your core (Physics, Calculus, etc. I'm not talking about grades and I'm not talking about doing the things just for the exams, I have a hunch you're not the type for you're serious enough to post this kind of questions here: if you have a strong core, you'll only have to worry about the specifics of the problems you'll have at hand. If you don't, you'll have to worry about the Calculus/Physics AND the specifics of the problem at hand. ).I'm brushing up those things on my time, now. I'm reading Belikov's "General Methods for Solving Physics Problems" which is on a more "meta" level. It is beautiful. Soviet era books have a way to distill an incredible amount of information in such a sophisticated way I have never seen in any modern book. Modern books are all over the place and too zoomed in. USSR ones ooze with mastery and it just shows the authors are looking at the thing from a big picture, zoomed out, "why", perspective.I had started reading Landau & Lifschitz. First page and my knees became weak and I had to sit, and then I cried.I know I went way off topic, but please push your brain's limits. You're way smarter than what you think. If you don't have the book "How to Study in College", consider getting it. Don't take shortcuts. Please try to be the best Engineer you can be, and then try to beat that.
I broke my school iPad. How do i tell my parents?
Instead of having books my school has iPads and on the last day of school my iPad fell out of my locker and cracked and i wouldn't mind telling my parents i broke it but THIS IS THE THIRD TIME IVE BROKE IT. I know i sound stupid and not careful but all 3 times were a complete accidents. The first time i broke it my parents were understanding and said it was a accident. But the 2nd time they went ape **** on me and grounded me. I start school in a week and still haven't told them i broke it 3 months ago what should i do?
How would I use financial aid to pay for textbooks bought online(like at amazon or chegg.com)?
Financial aid gets disbursed by semester. My daughter got hers disbursed a week before her Sept 1 start date. They desposit the money into your college account. Then your college automatically will take out their charges for tuition, housing, meal plan, fees etc. The rest is refunded to you. Each college does it differently. My daughters colleges gives the student a Visa credit card that is linked to the account. She can withdraw the refund in cash if she wants or use the visa card to order books online. Some colleges will send you a refund check. If your refund check is coming late then you need to purchase the books yourself with your own money and then just keep the refund money when it comes in for yourself.
My sister is spoiled and gets bad grades and my parents don t do anything!?
My sister literally gets spoiled so much. She is eight and has an iPhone and and iPad. She also gets to do whatever she wants. My parents enrolled is in this thing called Kumon, which is an extracurricular thing for Math and Reading, and she never does any of the homework for that and doesn t do well in school either. She gets no punishment aside from a little anger from my parents. Meanwhile, in the 4 years that I have been attending Kumon, I haven t gotten crap for doing all my work aside from being able to spend some points I get from doing the work on some prizes (which take a long time to build up, after 3 years I finally had enough points to buy a 3DS). And even then it is nothing from my parents. If I get a B in school, I ll get grounded for at least two weeks, which is understandable. But my sister just got three B s on her last report card (though she got A s on everything else) and my parents didn t care at all! I m starting to think this is just eating plain unfair. B s are horrible, and being raised in and Asian family, we had to get all taught A s. But I have to put up with this spoiled brat of a sister who doesn t do Cato and gets everything and screams at my parents, while still getting them to buy stuff. Meanwhile, like I ve made obvious, I ve been treated unfairly and get a huge punishment. I want to just yell at them and tell them that they are doing everything wrong, but I m too scared
Why do I get sleepy when I start reading?
Probably because of how, what, when, and where you are reading. Here are some suggestions:Reading position. Don't sit or relax somewhere that's too comfortable. Read at a table, desk, library carrel– somewhere you can keep both feet flat on the floor. Sit upright in your seat. Don't slouch or lie in a recliner or beanbag, and especially don't read in bed... unless you're trying to fall asleep.Take breaks. If you try to read for too long an interval you may nod off after a while. Set a schedule, either time-wise (like five minutes for every half hour) or content-wise (such as between chapters or after a number of pages), to take breaks from reading.Content. Be sure the material you're reading is interesting and relevant to you. Sounds like a no-brainer, but when I find myself bored with what I'm reading and feel sleepy, I stop and think, why am I even reading this?Time of day. If you read right after a meal, close to bedtime, while unwinding after a hard day's work or long commute, or at any time your body feels it wants to rest, don't be surprised if you get drowsy. During the day, mid-morning or afternoon works best. Take advantage of daylight. Speaking of light...Lighting. Probably most important. Make sure your reading space is well-lit, even if you are reading from a mobile device like a tablet or e-reader. You're more likely to doze off in a dark or dimly-lit space than a bright one. Some lighting tips:• Don't use a clip-on reading light or your e-reader's backlight unless you have to, say if someone is trying to sleep.• On a red-eye flight, go ahead and use the overhead light. I used to worry that this bothered adjacent passengers, but I think everyone has an understanding.• At home, I recommend a good desk or clamp lamp, with a 75(+)-watt, bright white CFC or LED bulb.• Candlelight or even a fireplace is probably too dim.• Sunlight would be ideal.• If you MUST read in darkness, I recommend night-vision goggles. Hope you like green.Sounds. A relaxed reading space free from distraction is good, but if there is soothing music or delicate background noise, it may lull you to sleep. I'm not saying it needs to be completely silent; just be sure that the soundwaves entering your ear canals don't trigger a sleep response in your brain.That's it, I guess. Hope you stayed awake through all that.P.S.: Thank you! And one last thing... There's always caffeine.
Can the school hold my son back?
geometry is a high school curriculum based math, 5th graders should not be learning this skill yet. Yes the school can hold him back, he needs an iep now.