Wouldn’t angels be religious teaching?
Proud Pappaw Ping!
Cold? Go stand in a corner. A corner is 90deg.
Kids don’t need to learn about taxes, they don’t pay them. They need to learn math. Math education is the key to success. Everything we do is based on math. Geometry teaches deductive reasoning in a way that nothing else can, with pictures.
I wish that I had emphasized math more with my own kids. I also wish that I had instilled the same sense of competition in education that my husband instilled in sports.
The more we spend on education, schools, and teachers, the lower we sink in the world-wide education ratings.
I thank the democrats and teachers unions.
How can the board respond to "A#$^ H&!@$!@%& ?" ?
For one thing, those nitwits probably don’t understand anything about taxes, taxation or economics in general. Just like the current president of the US.
What did the math book say to the history book?
“I’ve got a lot of problems.”
Mathematics (including geometry and physics) been berry berry good to me! I can’t emphasize how many times these gifts of knowledge have saved my bacon. Basket weaving, Swahili, and finger painting not so much.
I think while you are growing up there are some things you should be taught at school (reading, writing, and arithmetic) by qualified teachers. Other things you should be taught at home (financial responsibility, ethics and morals, religious instruction, sex, and politics) by your parents. Unfortunately things have been reversed and kids are not getting the education I received. But I digress.
I agree, without a working knowledge of mathematics, people are at a disadvantage. Sadly, we find more people who can’t count to twenty and make change without a computer. If the computer says 2 + 2 = 5, then no question about it, it must be so.
Of course I’m an old fart who had to learn mathematics before the dawn of the computer age. Who do you think designed and programmed those computer applications? Sprechen sie FORTRAN, COBOL?
I’ve always thought high schools should have a class called “Reality 101” or something, where they teach the kids about relevant math and money things. Taxes, interest, mortgages, marriage, divorce, etc. You could easily take up a semester with that.