[Amelia]

Kids ideas of the "highlights" of a class rarely correspond to the most important components from an academic standpoint.

Nope, the "highlights" just keep them interested for the rest of it...but I guess you'd know more about that than I do.

[GovernmentShrinker]

You sound as if you've bought into the currently fashionable educational theory which holds that schools and teachers have a duty to entertain students. I have not, and believe that students will do much better in the long run if they learn that work is work and play is play, and that work needs to be done diligently whether one finds it interesting or not.