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On the maths, I do not care if a school teaches advanced calculus. I do think all children should at least be taught the very basics. I mean addition, subtraction, and hopefully multiplication and division.
I worked in the special population department of a college.
What broke my heart was with the exception of one student that had been labeled as special, all of them had to take remedial math when they got to the college level.
Nearly every one of these students had physical disabilities not mental ones. Because they had been labeled, they did not have to take those core curriculum (or whatever they are calling them now) tests.
I remember I was a junior in high school when they first came out with those tests. We were told on a Friday, bring 2 number 2 pencils to school on Monday. Pass or you don't graduate. There was NO teaching to the test like they do now.
And it was just the basics.
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