[Wylie's Mom]

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?

Wow, excellent points.