[150026] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Common operational misconceptions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Fri Feb 17 12:37:17 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Brandt, Ralph" <ralph.brandt@pateam.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:36:28 +0000
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> BTW, I am a school board member who votes 1:8 often on things.... But
> let me give you a perspective, one of the board members called Golf an
> "Essential Life Skill." Maybe, but how about balancing a checkbook...
>=20
> Ralph Brandt
> Communications Engineer
> HP Enterprise Services
One of the best courses I ever had was in 9th grade math class when Mr. Mar=
tin taught us how to do taxes. And I mean even long forms with all the sch=
edules and stuff for people who had investments and small sole proprietor b=
usinesses. It was a great practical math application, though it was mostly=
just arithmetic, some of the example cases were quite complex with estimat=
ed taxes, carrying forward losses from previous years, depreciation, etc. =
It gave us some context in which we could understand why we might need to l=
earn math in real life and made taxes less daunting when we got older. Tha=
nks, Mr. Martin!
