David B. Shemano wrote:
Funny, except that what you say is generally true of everything the public schools teach. If we wanted our kids to be more interested in math and science, the best thing would be to stop the public schools from teaching math and science. Privatize now.<
alas, the private schools teach math and science poorly too (often bringing in stuff like "intelligent design"). Privatizing would likely lead to the total abolition of schools for those below the middle class. That would not only upset their parents, but would violate the fundamental purpose of schools, i.e., keeping kids off the street. -- Jim Devine / "Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it's intimate and psychological - resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul." -- Barbara Ehrenreich
