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They don't have all the problem sets between multiplication and mechanical engineering and if they did that would be a decade and a half of problem sets. That's a lot of problem sets.

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Oh, he can make them, he just needs it specified what exactly they're called.

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...they do not actually have a list of problem sets between multiplication and mechanical engineering compiled.

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He makes himself a computer and starts doing it for them.

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Computers are not allowed in class! the teacher says while the students flock around him.

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He makes a different one. "The computer's on the roof and it's only the monitor that's in here, it's okay."

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He is not really following the spirit of the rule and is disrupting class!

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"And there's a rule against disrupting class? Do you want to get me a complete list of all the school rules so I can adhere to it instead of being continually told that something I'm doing breaks one? Why is 'division' even a separate lesson from multiplication they're the same thing -"

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Kids are confused about how they're the same thing. The teacher says there is indeed such a list but it's mostly stuff about not disrupting the learning environment.

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Because division is just multiplication by the reciprocal. He sends the relevant concepts, sends a couple different explanations in case one isn't clear to someone. He thinks he's doing quite well on the learning environment really, he'll have all his classmates mechanically engineering in no time. 

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No he won't people take time to learn things and there are developmental aspects to take into consideration and can he please make these things go away and let them get on with the lesson plan?

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Does the teacher mind if he sits quietly in the back corner and listens to music.

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...will he stop disrupting the class if he does that.

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He expects he won't say another word until recess.

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Fine then.

The other kids are indignant, though. How come he can listen to music? And they know multiplication and division now, shouldn't they be allowed an early recess?

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He listens to his acceleration song and works on the artifact.

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The students are rioting, though, and the teacher is having a hard time calming them down.

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He doesn't care.

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Eventually she manages by promising them a slightly earlier recess and access to Epic.

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Oh good. He works on his artifact.

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And the kids work on math and then move on to grammar.

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...this is a weird and oversimplified and awfully prescriptivist way of teaching Portuguese grammar. He bites his tongue. Artifact.

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Portuguese grammar is really​ complicated and has lots of verb tenses and everything is gendered and sentence structure accepts very little variation although they play fast and loose with subjects and sentences that only have predicates are common. But they're not looking at all of that, they're seven, they're learning very basic stuff like spelling and how to conjugate some verbs.

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This world does not think very highly of its seven-year-olds. 

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The seven-year-olds are not struggling but it's difficult to say that they're much beyond this level.

And then: recess.

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