"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
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Our youngsters (and country) have done an incredible disservice when
they were told that one either works with one's mind (smart) or works
with one's hands (dumb). The next topic I will rant about is the fact
that Industrial Arts is no longer taught (except, perhaps in name
only) in public schools (and so far as I know in ANY private
school).... I will then drift on to the fact that, in spite of having
made it through several "benchmark grades" and passed a "State
Competency Test," 65% of incoming community college students are not
prepared for school with respect to ability in Reading, Writing, and
Math.

Ohhhhhh.... don't get me started....


Gene, it's because in an age of spiraling costs and limited budgets, the
eggheads that have lived in the secure world of acedemia since graduating
from college are influencing and controlling the curriculums.

The rest of us are busy working.

It's almost comical if it was not so serious an issue.

Eisboch