Way to go South Carolina!

[Seth]

There is certainly room for rote learning, the times tables being the classic example. Also, a student's progress in maths is made, at least to a large degree, by doing large numbers of problems until the sub-skills involved become part of an unconscious toolkit. Some absurd "new-age" thinking condemns such exercises as old-fashioned and repetitive, thus contributing to the dumbing down of the population.

Having said that, there is also a need for lateral thinking and creativity, but not at the expense of solving enough quadratic equations until you can solve them in your sleep...

I certainly don't disagree with this.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'd rather all the rights be covered equally, m'self. And I'd rather American schools take that responsibility -- to make informed citizens, not service-sector employees -- seriously.

[Seth]

I'd rather all the rights be covered equally, m'self. And I'd rather American schools take that responsibility -- to make informed citizens, not service-sector employees -- seriously.

Somebody's got to flip burgers, dig ditches, change the sheets and scrub the toilets. You don't need a high school diploma to do that, as the 12 million illegals in the US prove.

Good to see you here Thump. Sanity finally sink in and cause you to abandon ship?