[dalereed]

“My school went with new math in the early 70’s... I was toast.”

My late life sister in law got hit with that “new math” and we were baby sity with her and I helped her with it.

You have to know all forms of math to decipher it, they take them and toss them in a bag, shake and hope the parents can’t help the kid!!!!

I finally told her to seperate the problem into sections solve it and after she has the answer go back and write it in terms that the teacher would accept!!!

I can see no purpose for it other than to make sure that parents can’t help the student!!!!

[equaviator]

Public Schools Education + Liberalism = American Idol

[newfreep]

Sometime ago I read an article that stated “teachers” who graduate with “Education” degrees are in the lowest 25 percentile of SAT scores.

Based on the failure of Big Govt Education, that stat is certainly believable.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I can see no purpose for it other than to make sure that parents can’t help the student!!!!

Nor can I. I am quite sure that that is the motivation behind it.

But there is now a free internet school that can help:

khanacademy.org

No reason why a kid should fail for the lack of adequate pedagogy now!