Holy Jeebus!

Snippet from @pattonoswalt, in response to “you have to respect everybody’s beliefs.”

No, you don’t. That’s what gets us in trouble. You have to acknowledge everybody’s beliefs. And then you have to reserve the right to go, “That is fucking STUPID, are you kidding me?”

My 6th grade son’s math homework was full of rounding errors.

The topic isn’t rounding, it’s conversions, but the instructions said “round to the nearest tenth” and he rounded to the nearest 100th in most cases, and did so incorrectly at that.

He’s been having some focus issues with math and is currently carrying a C where he’s had straight A’s in all classes, all year. We’re working on it.

Any way, 7 out of 12 wrong on his homework, due solely to the rounding errors. I asked him “do you know what the grade would be for 5 out of 12 on a test?” as I punched in 5 / 12 on the calculator and held it up for him to see.

“A forty-one?” he says.

Sigh.