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Originally Posted by jimhurtt@twc.com
This thread is so utterly fascinating to read!
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It interesting to me because it gives insight to people’s basic math capability.
I was a school volunteer, PTA President, and part time school activist in Beaverton, Oregon schools in the early 2000s. Back then the school administrators tried to make high school math easier to learn, by eliminating algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and precalculus. Our parent activists got them to listen, retaining the curriculum as all of that is necessary for college bound graduates. I worked with the university system, too, learning that remedial math was the most asked for freshman class because too many freshmen could not handle the classes in engineering and science track degree programs.
Back to the flavored alcohol discussion: it isn’t advanced math at all. It’s something that anyone who made it out of elementary and middle school should be able to figure out. It isn’t advanced math at all.
Statewide in Oregon, the legislators are still tinkering.
Oregon finds itself nearly dead last in K-12 education outcomes and graduation rates, despite spending above average amounts of money per student when compared to other states.
To fix this, legislators have proposed eliminating read, writing, and arithmetic competency from graduation requirements. Social promotion for all. Combine that with some colleges eliminating SAT and ACT scores for admission, and well soon have colleges tasked with completing basic education for many.
Ones GPA will no longer be important or even useful. Perhaps only a school participation certificate wil be all that is needed.
I hope not.