Re: son being taught "wrong" information at school

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:31:54 +0000, Dave {Reply Address in.Sig} <"noone$$"@llondel.org> wrote:
Banty wrote:
In article <mehouck-AE5014.11571623022006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dragonlady says...
In article <Z7oLf.65660$B94.55038@pd7tw3no>, jules <jules@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

How do you all deal with it when your child comes home from school having
been taught things that are simply wrong?

My son's teacher is great, and I can't completely blame her because the
science test she used was obviously developed by some curriculum distributor
of some kind, and I know it's hard to have all the answers when teaching all
subjects to grade three, but...

They had a science test on magnets, and one of the tasks was to "glue the
pictures of things that are attracted to magnets onto the picture of the
magnet, and glue the things that aren't attracted to magnets beside the
picture of the magnet." To get the problem right they had to glue all METAL
objects to the magnet, completely ignoring the fact that only metal that
contains at least some iron is magnetic.

Gee, glad *neither* of you teach *my* kid about ferromagnetic materials!

Banty (cobalt, nickel....)

Don't forget the rare-earth ones as well.


Carbon aerogel, anyone?

- Rich

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