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Discouraging Students from Taking Math
Coryoth writes "Following on from a previous story about UK schools encouraging students to drop mathematics, an article in The Age accuses Australian schools of much the same. The claim is that Australian schools are actively discouraging students from taking upper level math courses to boost their academic results on school league tables. How widespread is this phenomenon? Are schools taking similar measures in the US and Canada?"
Come ON you homosexual deviants in Cupertino. QUIT FUCKING AROUND and update your fucking software every so often. You mincing faggots are worse than Debian...
Ok...I noticed that too...from the article:
"...Hyam Rubinstein, said because maths was viewed as a difficult subject in schools, only the best and brightest were encouraged to pursue it at an advanced level."
The whole article had that misspelling of math as maths? How could a publisher misspell so badly throughout a whole article like that? Do they not proof read?
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
What a narrow minded and stupid comment.
Teachers should not teach to the brighter students. If a student is as bright as they think they are, or as bright as their parents think and tell them they are, they can learn easily on their own and only need to be shown which chapters of which book to work from. They can then work independently. Teachers should be teaching *primarily* to the not so bright students as this is where the greatest impact can be made.
School is the only place where the 'lower students' will ever get a formal education and this is the reason why the focus should be on them. The brighter students will get many, many more opportunities for higher education.
'Bright students' that need to be taught are either too lazy or were miss classified as being bright. They are the ones that will spoil a class's education.
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