RE: The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)
December 3, 2017 at 3:30 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2017 at 3:31 am by Alex K.)
(December 2, 2017 at 10:49 pm)Fireball Wrote:(December 2, 2017 at 6:54 pm)Alex K Wrote: Hi! Thanks for asking. Too busy IRL to participate in forums much. Family and job(s) keep me insanely occupied to the point where I sometimes don't have any spare time at all days in a row. It'll get better soon I hope, next summer the latest.
I taught high school physics and math for two years between aerospace/defense jobs. I hope that you are teaching the AP courses, because those kids are actually interested (or at least, their parents are pushing them). I taught entertainment industry brats at a private school. I'd have given a tooth for kids that wanted to be there, as opposed to sitting back in their chairs with their shoes up on the desk, picking their teeth, and asking, "When will we ever use this!?". My favorite question was "Why are you doing this to us!?". I told one of the other teachers that I should tell them "I've come for your soul. Give it to me now!" He had a chuckle out of that.
We don't have the exact equivalent of AP courses, but you can elect to have advanced physics as a specialization in grades 11/12 (and 13 depending on the state and type of school). Those then usually go deeper into electrodynamics and quantum physics than what I exerienced as AP Physics in the US (which roughly covered our standard physics in 11th grade. But the system is different here - if you don't want to go to college, you can simply graduate after grades 9 or 10 and begin an apprenticeship.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition