It was my hobby - I did it for 35 years at all of its glorious levels. Yesterday WaPo had a great story on how the math folks in Maryland and N. Virginia have decided that their curriculum is an "inch wide and mile long" (very shallow) and they need to throw all the wonderful standards that every teacher, parent, and administrator added to, what for decades was put in its proper place (the dusty shelves in the corner),THE CURRICULUM. They figured that after all of this dialog of the "Leave no leaf behind" era that the kids can only handle about three concepts per year. I think that we could expand what math people have found out to the rest of the curriculum.
My previous point for having a Constitutional Amendment for Education was to protect the Institution from every kind of attack that is launched at the local, state, or federal level. The problem is that we need consistency when dealing with young people. We can't be rebuilding the whole system every time someone has an itch.
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