"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 06:47:36 -0400, DSK wrote:

Go sit in a high school B-C Calculus class and remember that the
kids there are a product of public schools.
What percentage of high school students take a real course in Calculus,
other than maybe a half year introduction? I don't know, but I suspect
the
percentage is very small.


Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
Less than 2% locally.

Must be something in the water.

Around here about 15% of the kids are in honors math. I used
to to tutor some of them. They easily test out of freshman
calculus when they get to college.

Pardon me for allowing facts to interrupt a partisan screed.

I noticed that in the national stats - kind of interesting.

Do you have a higher population of Asian kids than we do around here?

Well....you ARE in Connecticut, after all.