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Old 04-June-2006, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Maksutov
There's another problem here. Since it's a course for college credit, I would imagine it's graded. And that you (SFU) would be doing the grading.
I'm not sure that snowflakeuniverse is actually teaching the course. In the OP he wrote:
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Every couple of years I have the opportunity to present my Uniform Expansion Theory to a group of Advance Placement High school physics students, many of who will receive college credit for the course.
It's probably a case of the teacher saying "And now for something completely different" and turning the floor over to Mr. Kulick for one session.
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This isn't idle speculation. While in high school I took a number of college credit courses in such things as molecular biology, physics, astronomy, etc. We essentially took as fact whatever the instructors told us. After all, we were just high school students.
Very true, and the reason why snowflakeuniverse needs to present his ideas somewhat higher up the academic food-chain.
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