> hat’s interesting re: torque - it’s almost as though they don’t want the kids to understand how machines work. <
When I first looked over the physics curriculum, I noticed that torque was missing. So I emailed the district’s science supervisor, informing him of that. His reply was friendly enough. But he told me to teach the curriculum as is, period. Please don’t tell him that I taught torque anyway. :)
I really don’t think the “educational consultants” who made the physics curriculum deliberately meant to exclude torque. It was an oversight. But those consultants thought they knew so much more than us. So who were we teachers to offer any corrections?
No, the educational consultants weren’t bright enough to leave that out on their own.
Someone above them decided that.
Question is, who decided that American kids don’t need to know how machines work?