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Beliavsky <beliavsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Apr 16, 8:48=A0pm, Dom <DR...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> At a recent math conference, a speaker deviated from her presentation
>> to discuss the Everyday Math Junk that has been adopted in Newton, MA.
>> According to the town, $10 million has been spent on this Junk. In
>> Sept. 2006, so many parents complained that last September the parent
>> informational night was not held. Many parents are now paying to send
>> their children to the after-school and weekend programs at the Russian
>> School in Newton. This school is so popular that a branch has been
>> opened in Needham.
>Thanks for this information. I don't live far from Newton, and I will
>look into this school. The web site is http://www.russianschool.com/
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>I don't know if Everyday Math is worse than the the multicultural math
>curriculum http://www.gnxp.com/MT2/archives/003450.html
Newton has
>previously been using.
>Under the current government monopoly system of education, educators
>are free to put their ideological agenda ahead of academic
>achievement. A voucher system woulld force them to compete and rein in
>such shenanigans.
Alas, the situation is much worse than that; it has gone
too far. The public schools started becoming age-oriented
and social-oriented instead of being academically oriented
during the Depression, and yes, I was there.
It will take a long time; our teachers have been TRAINED to
think in terms of class discipline and class events, and also
class performance, and not that the individual is to be
educated, not trained, so they cannot do other than train.
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