Re: Why do so many kids do badly with math and science?

Rosalie B. wrote:

Actually I found almost the opposite - my kids could get a good
math/science background much more easily than they could get a good
English or SS background.


	I would agree.  The education in many of the
social sciences is truly appalling, even in very good
schools.  There are certainly plenty of schools where
the math curriculum is also inadequate, but my experience
is that a strong social science curriculum is harder
to come by.  There are lots of students who graduate
with significant calculus under their belts, but very
few who would know ontology from epistemology.

Best wishes,
Ericka
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