"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:13:51 GMT, "Doug Kanter"
wrote:


"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.

Hey!! I'll have you know we have one minority in town.

That should be sufficient. :)

Really, it's a serious question.

One minority? Person who can identify its father? :-)