Originally Posted by
1journeyman
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When was the last time any of you were actually impressed with the public education system in the USA?
Does anyone really believe the public education system could properly handle a topic like this?
Here's a novel concept; Let's teach students to read, write, and do simple mathmatical equations without the need for a calculator. Once we've perfected that we can move on to bigger social issues.
This is simply another step in the Government raising kids so parents don't have too...
I should let my wife reply to this but she’s not home so ill hit this one for her since I know her feelings. I get to listen to them over and over and over and over and over and over again.
Your right 100 percent. The school programs are advancing with the times. Computer, digital age. Now wit that advancement comes the problems that kids are losing a lot in the end. Basic math skills, language arts , English are being destroyed with text typing and word compression ( BFFE, TTYL, L8R, H8R) proper writing techniques cause kids type everything, they have calculators on everything and computers that tell them what to do.
Ask a student why they should learn and know basic math skills. The answer will be I don’t everything is computerized.