[nmh]

My solution?

Get rid of the calculators given out to kindergartners. Don't laugh! They start them out on calculators in public schools.

This ast spring our brillant public school teachers were wondering if kids really knew their math facts in middle school and elelmentary school. So for the FIRST time they had ONE section of the math test where they could NOT use calculators in determining the righ tmultiple choice answer. (Rolling my eyes). For the rest of the math testing, CALCULATORS were allowed and ENCOURAGED in determining which multiple choice answer was CORRECT.

[Slyfox]

Hundreds of N.J. students who can't do simple math were credited with passing spelling the word "calculus."

[Vaquero]

thank you AFT and NEA

way to go marxist doooooshbags.

[nina0113]

I hope Christie’s on some GOOD blood pressure meds.

[EyeGuy]

Similarly, John Thompson, basketball coach at Georgetown University was long lauded in the liberal sports media, for the near 100% “graduation rate” among his “student athletes”.

Racist rubber stamp anyone?

[wyowolf]

When i was doing my Calc testing they wouldnt let us use the fancy Calcs that did it all for you... you had to use the simpler ones...

[elpadre]

I believe we have a crisis in math teaching and their principals.

[Don Corleone]

In all fairness, one of Princeton’s highest faculty members was poor at basic math. However he was a whiz at the higher levels. His name was Al Einstein I believe.

[J Edgar]

This is criminal, pure and simple. The students are the victims, all for the benefit of school administrators and teachers.

Teacher’s unions must be broken if our youth are to survive, and thus Our Republic.

[Vasilli22]

"The world needs ditch diggers too."

[sodpoodle]

idiot savants!!!!!!!!

[Political Junkie Too]

I guess there are no limits in those schools.

-PJ

[DJ MacWoW]

I went a couple of rounds with my daughters math teacher in Christian school. They used calculators. I asked her what will happen when a calculator isn't handy? She said "they can use mine". She's gonna follow them throughout life?!

Also she did not have them work the problem out on paper, only write the answer. I asked her how she checked their calculations. She had no good answer.

It seems that public or private school, it doesn't matter, the education level is in the basement.

[yoe]

Who gave Obama tons of $$s? Who whines the most for more $$s? Teachers! The NEA or AFT have a product that ought to be spectacular in all areas....sadly, American Teachers are failing. Teacher’s UNIONS do not ‘a better teacher make’, in fact Teacher’s UNIONS keep teachers from being all they can be. My state teacher’s UNION demands non-union teachers pay dues to that communist organization...the product, children with an education, is way down on the list.

[skeeter]

My solution? Dissolve the teacher's union.

They are not concerned with education, they exist for their own sake.

[Tired of Taxes]

One of the many reasons we homeschool in NJ.

[Julia H.]

So? I kicked arse in a lot of upper-level math classes, and I still multiply 3 and 3 and get 6, or forget to carry the one. It’s called carelessness brought on by complacency brought on by superior skillfulness.

Oh, wait, we’re talking about the normal people?

[Blagden Alley]

And bring back those epsilons and deltas, calculus’ little helpers!

[BluH2o]

And we are surprised by this? Look at whose President ... he’s a walking testimonial to grade inflation, pass through, liberalism. The fact BO will not release any information whatsoever on his grades, or class standing, at any university he supposedly attended speaks volumes.

[ronnyquest]

Calculators have no place in a teaching environment. If they want to learn to use a calculator later, read the freakin’ manual. I could get behind allowing the use of a slipstick for classes after Algebra II.

[Steely Tom]

"can't do simple math" == "passed ebono-calculus"

It's just a matter of definition.