Math could have some room to be improved. I remember when I was in public screwl, most math before high school was a lot of boring review from previous years. If they do it right, and this works in getting more kids more math literate at earlier ages, that's good. I've run into 16 year olds from public screwls who can't add 1.5 and 2.1, though. So it might be a waste of time for a large number of students. Pushing computers was a complete fad. It was sort of like pushing TV and VCR literacy. If they wanted to help the kids, they would have pushed them to actually produce some software that required them to think critically and abstractly.
Oh, Bravo! You are absolutely right. I have often said that obsessing on giving kids classes in computers is an utter waste of time, akin to us having taken a class called, "How to turn on the TV." After all, my 6-year-old knows more about computers than I did when I was 25.
Meanwhile, I have to teach my third grader multiplication tables myself, because they just don't do it right anymore. They no longer make the kids write 'em out 10 times each or anything, but they DO let them have calculators! (Not mine, though...he does it by hand until he's in Chem or PreCalc and no sooner).
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