Ummmm....hate to be a bummer here, but glogalization IS socialism. It's the excuse we use for; Foreign aid, world bank, USAID,UN,IMF,ICC, and a multitude of others. Your teacher sounds like a very confused person....

i guess our mathmeticians were so caught up in the discussion that this post slipped right by them.  i was wondering if anybody was going to respond to it.

i concur that globalization and socialism go hand in hand.  and either that prof is very confused or he's got a real sense of sovereignty but wants us to use that sovereignty to enact socialism here in the states.  while the two (globalization and socialsim aren't necessarily one and the same), it's rare to find one without the other.

i hope you don't get him either.  on the otherhand, i found it somewhat amusing to constantly play the devil's advocate in classes taught by liberal profs.  [:D]

In 8th grade I had 17 non-consecutive arguements about what is the Southernmost state in the US.

She said Florida, and I said Hawaii.

She said I was wrong, because Hawaii is the westernmost state.  AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHH!

[b]ALASKA IS THE WESTERNMOST STATE, EASTERNMOST STATE, AND THE NORTHERN MOST STATE!  HAWAII IS THE SOUTHERNMOST STATE!!![/b]

She was pretty dumb.  I got a suspension for giving her the bird when I was a Senior in H.S.

Actually the Constitution is a "Living" Document, however liberals spin it around to how you "interpret" the document, but in actuality in is a living document because it amendments can be added by 2/3 state ratification but lately it depends on what liberal judges "think"

The South believed that if they had the CHOICE to become a part of the union then they had the CHOICE to remove themselves from it.  I can't remember which Federalist Paper it was but it explained the concept of succession.

I once got into an argument about an assignment that encompassed writing a paper stating what you learned about war by watching Platoon.  I argued that the movie was based on Hollywood's perception of combat and that the assignment was bogus.

I was also told that; American Chestnuts were extinct, long island was actually Manhattan Island, Greenland belonged to Canada, there are no such things as woodcocks, I could go on.  I was the geek in HS that was always correcting the teacher.

I remember my 8th grade Social Studies text book's explanation of the 2nd Amendment as "Allows the formation of the National Guard". Me and several students pointed this out as false. The teacher just said, "Well, we'll skip this one". The 2nd Amendment wasn't on the end of the quarter test either.

how is alaska the easternmost state?

that's just being anal [:)]

What really cooks high school student's noodles is the concept of SIGNIFICANT FIGURES AAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGH!!!!

Anal or not, the stupid teacher could have at least listened to reason, like you did.  [:)]

Don't ask me why... but Significant digits made sense to me in high school.

I can only guess it was because I took machine shop before we got to significant digits in math class [8D]

Don't know if this is "taught wrong" teaching or not but, in 3rd grade I had problems picking up on the concept of multiplication, so the principal "gave me the board". [shock] It didn't work. [shock] I know them now,though.
AB

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