Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for June 11, 2024

You’re good kid!

Flossie could be hired out as a scouring pad.

If they are both in the same class, one or the other seems to be slightly misplaced!

Sadly, officials in several states are trying to do away with more advanced programs for gifted students.

Anybody seem the film Idiocracy? It was made as a comedy but….. Governments and rich people thrive on the ignorant poor. While their children go to well provided schools.

I’m waiting for the coyote and roadrunner to be zipping by in that first panel.

I’m with you little guy. Swings are best.

He’s got the idea. Swings are an excellent example of continuous change.

Our son was in gifted programs in school. It’s not always all that great a thing. He still had to fight a lot of boredom in class, because gifted or not, the class travels at the speed of the slowest student. It’s better if you don’t allow schools/programs to limit what your kid learns. People don’t seem to realize that school is not the only source of learning and the world is a much bigger place outside of school. I told our son, you have to do your homework and get the boring stuff done – and then we can go have fun and learn about anything you want. We build catapults, and rockets, and visited museums, and read a lot of books.He’s an electrical engineer now, has a great job and is working on his Phd.

You’re not, Nerwin.

Perhaps it’s Flossie who’s missing out on something in pursuit of something else.

I always loved the calculus courses 1, 2, and 3 in college, and matrix calculus. Although I can’t say I’ve used it much since I graduated.

Nothing useful.

Flossie sounds like a Young Sheldon in the making. Unless she and Nerwin are a lot older then they look, their classmates would be struggling with long division and irregular fractions.

Calculus is actually pretty cool. It gives you some idea why you spent all that time on geometry. :)

I got all the way up to tensor calculus which Einstein invented. It uses matrices each term of which is an infinite series. Yeah, it was a real mind-bender of a class at 8 a.m. during hay fever season.

Despite easily obtaining high results (sez I, boastfully) all through years of math, I was blessed with an uninterested teacher in calculus in final year (may God rest her soul), and did not do well. It cost me a year of my life (as well as expense for my parents, to support me).