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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kevin Rose who wrote (248841)	4/17/2002 5:02:24 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

The problem is less the quantity of facts as the failure to define precisely enough what should be learned, especially what is essential, and to present the matter coherently. When my son was in elementary school, the social studies courses leapt around too much, included things for PC reasons, dumped data that had little meaning on students, and generally wasted time. Also, when I went through study sheets on ancient history with my son in middle school, a lot of the material was wrong. I was caught between having to teach him what was correct, and then getting into a conflict with the teacher, or letting him learn it "her way". Since I was pretty sure he wouldn't remember much, I rolled with "her way"........