[freespirited]

students who previously had been forced to learn physics and chemistry were, instead, taught what foods to eat.

There were no exams. Students were assigned to make a salad once a week and were graded for its quality, originality, and nutritional value.

[Professional Engineer]

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[SunnyUsa]

Britannia ping

[-YYZ-]

More precisely, students will be permitted to choose between traditional courses that teach the Periodic Table, ionic equations, the structure of the atom, Boyle’s law, and Ohm’s law...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but generally speaking, once you get past junior high school (ie past grade 8 or 9) don't students in north America generally have the option to bypass science courses altogether? At least in my personal experience I never learned any real hard science in terms of chemistry or physics until grades 11 and 12, and those courses were entirely optional. "Science" classes in elementary and junior high were jokes, really, where I can't recally learning much more than a smattering of biology and some basic scientific concepts. No real lab exercises to speak of. Most of my schoolmates who weren't planning further studies in the sciences never took physics, chemistry or biology. Personally I never took high school biology, not having an interest in it. Forcing people who have no interest in the sciences to study them is unlikely to produce graduates who have any real understanding of those sciences, IMO.

Personally I just wish that scientific illiterates like most reporters weren't allowed to comment on science stories that they not the slightest understanding of.

[eagle11]

They could slash their education budget, and just have the kids watch TV all day....

[Old Professer]

And Right Wing Professor chastised me for saying that no one needed biology beyond the mechanics of reproduction.

[Constantine XIII]

Recalling facts? Heaven forbid! ><