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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
by "progress" I'll assume you meant "change intended to improve." I learned math one way- but I learned it- when I graduated HS I could do calculus like mad- should have seen me!!!
my kids' second grade math was already stuff I had never seen- so they needed new books to learn that. but say if they had to learn math the way I did, I submit that would be better than not learning it, or stated otherwise- if their textbooks were still mine they have no excuse not to know how to do calculus when they graduate HS.
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Your point is well taken, and I will not be understanding if my kid cannot do calculus when he graduates from HS.
But as a matter of social policy, if you want to improve the schools, I believe the way to do it is for the left to sell out the teachers unions and for the right to agree to spend more money. As I say, I don't really know the subject, but I suspect both left and right have an element of truth to what they say but also are avoiding acknowledging inconvenient truths.
If, on the other hand, you don't want to pay more in property taxes and you don't care an awful lot about whether the schools improve, then the teachers and the students make perfect good scapegoats.
