[TheSpottedOwl]

I'm a little terrified about Bush's foray into Federal education mandates...and I'm a parent. The problem is that the teachers are terrified, so it rolls down to the kids. My daughter cries every morning about going to school. In her math classes for instance, she hopscotches between geometry and fractions, but hasn't mastered multiplication and division yet. She's 9, btw. This in turn frustrates me, and I'm worried that she's going to get a bad attitude about school.

I've never been fond of the NEA, or public education, but it's getting worse.

[RightField]

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In her math classes for instance, she hopscotches between geometry and fractions, but hasn't mastered multiplication and division yet.

Sounds to me like she's being victimized by an "integrated" approach to mathematics, along the lines of Mathland or some similar curriculum. Sad.