Re: Middle School Physical Science Texts: dishonesty

["RAUBER, JOEL" <JOEL_RAUBER@SDSTATE.EDU>]

> methods.  Currently my daughter has a fairly incompetent math
> teacher, who
> is also a bit psychotic.  The teacher did not know that the earth went
> around the sun, and that the moon went around the earth.  She
> tried to use
> the sun going around the earth as an example of an ellipse!
> I don't know
> whether to laugh or cry.
>
> John M. Clement


And I say with tongue rather in cheek, in the frame of reference of the
earth, the sun does go around the earth and rather in an ellipse shape.

Joel Rauber

PS  Somehow though, I don't think that is what your daughter's teacher had
in mind.