[billva]

You misunderstood what I wrote, and possibly cannot understand the very idea - without reading comprehension, which takes a lot of reading and a lot of training - the students don’t learn how to think. You make my case for me

And you make the case for you being a pompous ass.

Now that the niceties are out of the way, while you are right about needing to read to be able to understand, however without the proper math training their education is incomplete.

[kabumpo]

Again, you make my case for me - resorting to the old liberal device of name-caliing when you don’t have an argument. I never said or implied that math shouldn’t be taught. I said that that’s not where the emphasis should be - it needs to be on reading and writing. Call me all the names you want - it won’t make up for the fact that you didn’t learn to read very well.