I noticed this when my kids (now grown) were in school in the '80s. I was very active in the school district. Argued till I was blue in the face but got nowhere whenever they tried to introduce some "new" way of teaching. Some of the things I went through because some education PHD thought there was a "better way":
- OBE (Outcome Based Education): Doing away with grades and giving kids starting in kindergarten a "portfolio" that would show their cumulative work when they applied to college. :roll: A flash in the pan program.
- Integrated Math: HS math track would no longer be algebra, geometry, trig, calculus. It would be "integrated". This meant they taught freshmen a little algebra, a little geometry, a little trig each year. First year they did it, I looked at the books and told the school board that kids going through it would be confused and have no solid foundation for moving onward. They scoffed at me but the first summer, most of the kids needed summer school and tutoring because they had no clue. My 3 daughters' worst skill set is Math because of it. It was done because of the way the Michigan testing was set up. I.e. it was aligned to get them good scores, not teach them anything. I understand the school system has dropped this method. But not before a bunch of kids "got left behind". Ain't that ironic?
As others said, we used to be tops but we have slid backwards.
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