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Mad Prophet Ludwig11/01/2009 8:55:24 pm PST

re: #417 Mich-again

The American school system is designed more around helping kids with an IQ of 80 than challenging those with an IQ of 120. I think a big part of the problem in our schools is that too many kids are bored and then become behavior problems.

Oh that is is for certain. I could not agree more.

This is one of the major reasons I keep arguing for hiring more teachers with better pay.

If you put a teacher in a room with 30 kids, they are constrained to teach to the middle. They have little time to help the ones who are struggling, and the bright ones are assumed to be able to just be good and take care of themselves.

The biggest reason, IMHO, that math is so poorly understood in this country is that because of our system, kids are held back from interesting things for too long. By the time they see anything interesting, math has already become something tedious and awful. It would be grand of course if those teaching the math knew it as well and could explain it, rather than quoting dictums from books without reasons and expecting memorization.