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    From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to MIKE POWELL on Mon Dec 29 08:12:05 2025
    >> I think it's good to have a standardized curriculum so that you know that a
    >> student from anywhere (at least within the same country or region) has roug
    >> the same knowledge. But it's good to have a well-rounded curriculum.

    That also means that you have a whole bunch of students who don't know
    >whatever got left out of the standardized curriculum. As someone pointed
    >out the other day after watching three 20-somethings fail to produce an
    >answer for "What is 66+34?" -- "these are the people who will be trying to
    >figure out out social security and benefits."

    I think they are already working there.. B)

    If every school is using the same books or, in this case, computerized
    >packages, the kids are only going to learn what they want them to learn.

    An added problem to that is that if every school teaches whatever
    they want to you can't go by marks to decide if someone is ready
    for university or not. They need to be working from the same books
    to compare student results properly.

    I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
    you need to be working from the same playbook..

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  • From Rob Mccart@VERT/CAPCITY2 to NIGHTFOX on Mon Dec 29 08:12:05 2025
    In recent years, I've heard about schools in the US lowering their standards,
    > part because they want to show that more students are passing & graduating.

    Some school districts have done some bizarre things. A long time back
    (so hopefully this has changed) they used to say that to get into a
    higher end university course like medical or science, you needed an
    80% average to be accepted.. But if you were Black, you only needed
    60% and if you were Inuit, you only needed 40%..

    As I say, that was many years ago but just last year my niece, who
    is a teacher, was telling me that in her school the principal had
    made new rules for class study and the Library content and there
    were no books allowed with ANY white people in them. Period..

    It's one thing to ban certain books or insist that everyone is
    represented in the books they study but to totally ban whites?

    Another thing, no sex education for young students EXCEPT for
    Gay and Trans, which they were teaching to 5 and 6 year olds..

    Again, include everyone but reverse prejudice is still prejudice.
    And (IMHO) kids that young shouldn't be informed beyond saying
    that some families may have 2 mommies or 2 daddies.

    Fortunately that principal is now gone and it sounds like things
    are getting more back to reasonable..

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Rob Mccart on Tue Dec 30 07:54:48 2025
    Rob Mccart wrote to MIKE POWELL <=-

    I think some Private schools get around this but for most students
    you need to be working from the same playbook..

    Yes, and no. I suppose they get around independent curricula by being
    teaching more than the public school curriculum, but my daughter
    transferred private to private and lost a year of her math because the
    old school's class didn't line up to the new one.



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