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Re: Idle Ramblings
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Date: 
Mon, 10 Apr 2000 08:21:20 GMT
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SGORE@saynotospamSUPERONLINE.COM
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Sproaticus wrote:

Don't get me wrong; I am not happy with the current system.  But I feel that
what's needed in public school is a stronger language, math, and hard science
cirriculum.  In no way can kids from the American education system compete with
their counterparts in the majority of industrialized nations today.


Add not-so-industrialized nations to these..:-) At least for high
schools. One of my friends from high school went to US via an
international student exchange program for a period of one year in a US
high school. I remembered that he was not so good in math, but earned
his bread by giving math lessons to the students during the whole
year..:-)

Selçuk

Just dropping a couple o' pennies...

Cheers,
- jsproat



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(...) I don't even know where to trim Chris' words, so I'll just quote the whole dang thing. I'd venture to say that the attitude he displays helps drag down the standards of American education. It's one thing to be upset with the quality of your (...) (24 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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