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> The public school curriculum today was built around a need for literate men who could do arithmetic working in factories from the 1920s and on. That is why th
by megy 9y ago
> The public school curriculum today was built around a need for literate men who could do arithmetic working in factories from the 1920s and on. That is why the core "skills" of public education are mastery of basic reading and math.
You are so ignorant about the curriculum that it is embarrassing. I would wager you have nothing to do with a school except drive past one at too high a speed.
- techsupporter 9y agoWould you care to rebut the assertion that you quoted or are you just here to snark? Because I have been a public school teacher in a school district in Texas, I graduated from a Texas high school (and two public universities in Texas, a small unaffiliated one for my Bachelor's degree and a medium-sized one for my Master's) and I agree with the statement with which you take issue. The "Public University Core" in Texas is, by and large, the 2nd-level-advanced version of the basic high school graduation requirements. Those requirements aren't much more strenuous than "can do math with variables" and "understand compound sentences" and "pass a test on acid, base, solution, and precipitates." The school district where I taught didn't even have a senior-level financial education course until the year after I left and that was well into the 2000s. (But, by George, you absolutely will take a course in Texas History wherein you learn not to forget the Alamo and how Texans are fiercely independent unlike every other state in the Union and how we were technically an independent country and, depending on the teacher, we just might be one again.) Yes, it's a gross generalization but it is true, at least in my experience, that the curricula we are teaching our kids isn't dynamic or flexible enough to keep up with modern society.