It is time to once again install a dual boot system for me, I think.

I have been using Vista solely for business purposes for about 7 months or so now. It works great with the exception to reading drives or storage devices over the network.

Now that I have purchased Unreal Tournament III and Crysis, I think I have now decided to put XP back on just for purely gaming. UT III was jumpy and lagged some but Crysis runs good for everything so far but I think I may have had enough and need to see XP again. I am either going to install XP PRO N 32 bit or XP 64 Bit. Now remember this will be just for gaming.

In case you are wondering how this install will take place, I have a Sata 350gig and 400gig laying around so I am going to use my Sata 350 gig just for XP. I personally have had success with this upcoming way of installing XP after Vista. I am going to unplug all my drives except for the new drive. Install a fresh copy of XP on it and then plug my other two drives back in. Now my Vista, Data, and XP will be Channel 1, 2, and 3 respectively. I will change the boot.ini and then copy the three files necessary for XP to Vista root drive. Go into VistaBootPro and add the entry for XP system. Reboot and it all works. I have been very successful by doing a dual boot this way and it has worked the first time every time I have done it.

Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.

The topic title says a lot. To begin with I am a high school teacher who teaches engineering at a local high school. I teach Design Egnineering, Principles of Engineering, and Digital Electronics. The students I teach are usually honors students or students who really want to learn.

Another note on the side is I am also a degreed Mechanical Engineer who worked in the industry for 17 years before accepting a teaching position. Therefore I have been around and know what is going on in the real world.

The students are eager to learn and I really enjoy teaching them. I enjoy sharing my real world experiences with them. The one major problem I have is when I try to teach the students; I find myself first having to teach something I learned in my 7th and 8th grade years in order to teach them the curriculum. Instead of being able to teach the topics of interest, I have to reach twice as much in order to teach the engineering topics.

I feel like that the teachers of math, science, and even English are not teaching at all. My sophmores through seniors do not even know what writing a paper APA style is; So I have to teach English. Just the other day I had to teach a junior what pathagorim theory was; I learned that in 8th grade.

The point I am trying to get to is we are supposed to be advancing and moving forward but yet I feel like we are moving backwards. The things we were taught in 8th grade should now be taught in 6th grade or earlier by now.

I am going to leave my thoughts at this, due to I do not have an answer for the problem. I do not figure many have the answer to it neither. I just wanted to voice this to the public in hopes of the next generation will be better. I am working on my next generation in the hope of a better education and hopefully a better life.