Sinister Education

@Sara-s Thought of you when I saw this!

 

The actual charge was "transporting weapons of math instruction."

 

I'm going to have to work that into an actual conversation one of these days: as isosceles once said, there are three sides to every triangle.

I could totally see someone getting detained for this, I mean who knows what a slide rule is these days anymore? It probably would be mistaken for some sort of code machine.

 

Holder: "Mathbook'em Dano!"

 

Paul Simon and Peter Noone "didn't know what a slide rule is for", from their songs, actually different versions of the same song.

 

That could get you 1-5 double-life sentences(do the math).

 

Pocket protectors with an assortment of mechanical pencils was for sissy nerds or nerd wanta-bes. True nerds carried their pocket slide rule in their shirt pocket.

Now students carry their smart phones with the computing power of super computer from my undergrad days.