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Originally Posted by Ellie May  Forcing America's youth to do math that they aren't ready to do just because somebody else could do better in college is not what I would want for my child.... This is one of several reasons why I would not put my child in public school. There is an incredible amount of pressure to perform as well as your classmates and IMO it's not healthy. I know for the most part teachers go into the profession for the right reasons, but something is just very wrong somewhere.
Personally I'd like to see high school and even college students improve their English skills. We do peer review in English here. I was shocked to see that some people still don't know the difference between they're, their, and there - in a college English class. So a native English speaker can get out of high school without learning that sort of thing, but yet they have to be able to do 83x-75y=1/4xy-3/7y or the like? |
Same here, and I really think it starts with the elementary school...and of course parents. I was reading before I entered kindergarten, granted they were very simple books, but I was reading. I was shocked in 9th grade there were Juniors in my class who were barely reading at a 1st grade level. And it wasn't uncommon in my school for that to happen. People somehow managed to graduate without knowing basic grammar skills, and it seems like no one seems to care!