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pink sasquatch
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Message 60 of 164 (185596)
02-15-2005 3:14 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by IrishRockhound
02-15-2005 2:59 PM


confused about differences
Was this a mistype?:
in the US students do fewer subjects that they pick themselves. In comparison, Irish students can only choose very few of their subjects,
Isn't this the same thing? Perhaps you can clarify.
In any case, in the US educational opportunities really seem to vary from district to district. I was able to take advanced science courses like organic chemistry at my public high school, courses not available at all public schools.
Greater than half of high school courses were more or less predetermined for me, though I could choose what level of difficulty within those courses (I chose to take AP Calculus while others (in the vocational track) filled the same requirement with prealgebra.
Truely "elective" courses were relatively few.

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pink sasquatch
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Message 69 of 164 (187498)
02-22-2005 12:53 PM
Reply to: Message 65 by Demosthenes Fan
02-21-2005 9:00 PM


Students Speak Out, "Yeah, it was something like that."
Students are being taught about evolution in schools around the country. I recall being taught that people came from being monkeys to cavemen to civilized people, as they grew in number and began living together.
Yeah, it was something like that...
I remember leaving science class one day with a lot of unanswered questions. For instance, if people came from monkeys, then why didn’t all monkeys evolve into people? Also, how did people get spread out across almost all the continents? Did they monkey-paddle there?
I'd say that this is solid evidence that we need more extensive teaching of evolutionary theory, not less. How does this student have human migration twisted into a refutation of the theory of evolution?
When someone is so obviously outspoken against a scientific theory they do not understand, and sum it all up with, "Yeah, it was something like that," the educational system needs improvement, not deconstruction.

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