CattleHand
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I guess I'm in the minority because I strongly disagree that schools are slacking or have been watering down material.
When I graduated high school I had already completed my first semester of college calculus. I'm about to graduate from A&M next semester and have had the opportunity of really diving into some intense math courses as a result of my head start in college that I know neither of my parents did.
When my brother graduated high school (he was smarter than me), he had finished two semesters of college calculus and as a result will probably be able to surpass me in my college math courses as well as study more physics.
My sister is getting ready to graduate high school and has taken the same math courses my brother has and is already taking statistics, a course I would of really benefited from but have not taken and probably wont take for scheduling reasons.
All of us went to public school and there were definitely plenty of slackers and people who did receive watered down curriculum but I feel that is not the schools fault but the parents fault. Our parents reviewed our studies with us at home so we were able to progress faster at a younger age. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. The public school system has a lot of water, but most kids haven't been taught to drink.
When I graduated high school I had already completed my first semester of college calculus. I'm about to graduate from A&M next semester and have had the opportunity of really diving into some intense math courses as a result of my head start in college that I know neither of my parents did.
When my brother graduated high school (he was smarter than me), he had finished two semesters of college calculus and as a result will probably be able to surpass me in my college math courses as well as study more physics.
My sister is getting ready to graduate high school and has taken the same math courses my brother has and is already taking statistics, a course I would of really benefited from but have not taken and probably wont take for scheduling reasons.
All of us went to public school and there were definitely plenty of slackers and people who did receive watered down curriculum but I feel that is not the schools fault but the parents fault. Our parents reviewed our studies with us at home so we were able to progress faster at a younger age. You can lead a horse to water but you cant make him drink. The public school system has a lot of water, but most kids haven't been taught to drink.