Comments on: Eve Online: Cut Short?

By: pixiestyx

pixiestyx — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:22:32 +0000

could try looking at montosori schools, my duaghter is thriving in one and just blows are minds at age 4 with some of the stuff she comes out with

By: Jalann

Jalann — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:47:10 +0000

I’m in the Southern US. My wife and I are planning to HomeSchool our kids. Our Education system isn’t much better in the US. A lot of our problem is that people think throwing money at the school system works. Parents also aren’t taking the responsibility for their kids education.

If you really want to read a great book, more of a 75 page pamphlet, about the consequences of poor education, then check out “The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis.

By: Xelous

Xelous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:15:50 +0000

I actually find myself cocking my head to one side with the same expression as a dog being shown a card trick…. Kids not being taught, this is new to you? I actually know my education in the UK system from 1982 until 2000 was horribly useless, they didn’t teach me maths, literature, writing or even common sense things. I’ve taught myself immensly since finishing a Bachelors Degree in the Millennium Tide of bull shit that was the Uk Education system.

But, I then did the daft thing, and dated a school teacher for several years, she was teaching kids your daughters age. But she was as thick as two short planks herself.

“Do you teach them trigonometry?” “No”
“How about times tables?” “ha, no”
“What about writing, do they still have to write out tables of letters laboriously to perfect their hand writing.” “You must be joking.”
“So what do you teach them?” “They read their books on Europe”.
“And this teaches them what?” “About buying oranges”
“So aside from those pupils destined for a career in orange aquisition what does this enable any of them to do?” “Aqui-what?”

As for Eve Accounts, too bad, I’m currently finding two wow accounts, and three eve accounts. And dabbling with the free to play “Navyfield”…. I’m glad I can leave my Eve accounts training though, makes it all the more easy… ding 150 million SP between them btw….. so proud.

By: wilhelm2451

wilhelm2451 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:33:55 +0000

I feel your pain. We moved to a new neighborhood before kindergarten to be close to a good school and my wife does not work so she can volunteer at the school and be in the classroom helping out… a lot. This means she is not earning to help pay the bills, which in effect ends up costing our budget about the same as private school. And then there is the heavier mortgage burden. The joy of Silicon Valley.

On the other hand, my wife is a force to be reckoned with and already has considerable influence at school as well as being completely immersed in the lessons and lesson plans for our daughters class, which heavily influences the work we do at home with our daughter to help her along.

Oddly enough, with the whole “no child left behind” thing, the “nobody fails” mentality that was very much the hallmark of the Calif. public schools in my youth has fallen by the wayside. On the flip side, the classroom curriculum seems to be very much driven by passing the tests. While that does put more focus on fundamentals, it seems to fall a bit short at times.

I hope the private school thing works out for your daughter. It is hard to bounce back from being behind.

By: Blue Kae

Blue Kae — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:06:00 +0000

It has always seems odd to me that more companies don’t use subscription options as a differentiator. Besides Guild Wars being free with paid expansions, and LoTRO’s lifetime (which I have) membership, there are no publishers that really experiment with subscription options.

By: Sizz

Sizz — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:36:04 +0000

to Sara:

Eve-O’s no longer like that. CCP just changed it so that you have to maintain a paid subscription to have your skills train when you’re not logged in. I think they give you a grace period of three days of being nonpaid and then the skills stop training.

But still, dude, keep EVE-O if you keep anything.

By: Sizz

Sizz — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:31:29 +0000

Seriously dude, keep EVE Online! It’s way better than anything else out there.

By: H00LiGAN

H00LiGAN — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:11:19 +0000

Maybe send your daugther to US schools! Okay, that would be cruel, but my wife is a HS teacher and she has so many personalised learning plans to teach, it’s silly. There is no average in the US.

By: Sara Pickell

Sara Pickell — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:52:03 +0000

Well to be perfectly honest, if you’re going to have to take time off an MMO, EVE would be the obvious choice. Especially if you have any of those incredo long level Vs to work on, then you can just set those and if you ever get the chance to come back, you’ll still have done something worthwhile.

I’m no fan of the public school systems here way south of that particular border, but still… Shania Twain? Couldn’t they have at least picked someone… I don’t know… important!?

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:36:44 +0000

Same south of the border, so to speak. Our son is 9, also had to deal with newfangled crap math in the public schools, so we pulled him and went private — where they actually use textbooks from the 1980s, because the texts made since then are all crap, basically. The education establishment sucks, to be honest, and is about teachers rather than kids. It is a kind of national heresy in Canada to admit that public education may be flawed, but it’s only sensible to realize that, and do the right thing for your daughter. At the end of the day, that’s the real responsibility you have.

As for the MMO issue, certainly *many* people are cutting back on a lot of things, and MMO subs are one area likely to be cut. It will probably be good for you to have less to focus on as well. EVE will survive … although tough times right now personally for everyone in Iceland.