Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[brainlessone]

well if you go study molecular biology, bruce albert's book is in english. and they read it in singapore.

I dont get it: in hong kong and singapore and sweden english is mandatory and they read dickens in the 7th and 8th grade.

In the US english is not mandatory and they dont read dickens until 8th and 9th grade.

I really got upset when I compared the Great Books program I was in ( one of the origninals) still cant spell when I type, and I have some of the original junior great books. When I look at the current great books curriculum, the exact same books I read in 4th and 5th grade are being read in 7th and 8th and ninth.

This is one of the clearest purest comparisons of the what has happened to our schools.

So 50 years ago, a 5th grader could read something that a current 7th grader cannot