8th Graders Forced To Take Algebra
California now requires that eighth graders take algebra. This was started by a mandate by the board of education under Arnold Schwarzenegger. The problem, however, is many feel that most of the students are not prepared for the class. Tom Lawless of Brookings said, “You have 120,000 kids sitting in algebra and geometry classes and they don’t know how to multiply and divide,” Lawless said. “That’s an absurd situation. They’re not going to learn anything. And the kids who are sitting next to them, who are well prepared, are not going to learn anything either." To compound this problem there’s even a lack of math teachers.
Do you think children should be forced into classes where they don’t belong or allowed to move at their own pace?
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- 09.22.08
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I can't add or divide either, in fact I have no idea what calculus is, and actually I don't really care to know.