conuly

It's possible I'm missing some earlier concepts, but given my 100% on my first math regents and my solid 99+ scores before that, I don't know. To be honest, I put the blame partially on the school system, and this is why I'm not totally gung-ho about "flipped" classrooms. Several of my math teachers at Stuy more or less taught that way, which meant that if you didn't understand it at ALL during homework, you were still lost during the review. I had executive function problems keeping me from even starting my homework, and I had more or less absorbed the utterly stupid and ridiculous idea that having to work at a subject or ask for help meant you were stupid in it (and god knows I didn't want to be stupid in a subject, better to just fail it than to be stupid), and that method was the absolute worst thing for me.

You know, I'm astonishingly happy about the recent cheating scandal. The more various classes of Stuy come up and say "yes, it was widespread cheating when I was there as well", the better I feel. I can say "I wasn't just too lazy to do the work and not actually smart enough to coast, I was simply too honest to cheat like, apparently, EVERYBODY ELSE." I know of course that not everybody cheated and few of them cheated in every subject, but I still love being able to say that.