[quote=all]Elite private schools have limited capacity and the cost is the major control mechanism. LJCDS already has all the kids they want. They would just increase the cost by whatever the value of the voucher is.
I am a bit surprised that you would argue against Common Core, FLU. Important purpose of math in school is to develop problem-solving skills and common core math is doing that. It is the path that matters, not the number at the end. My 4th-grader can solve quadratic equations, but as long as he cannot explain the solution he is just a well-trained monkey.[/quote]
Most teaching methods work when the teachers are smart and like the subject they teach. Very few elementary school teachers like science and math and therefore we get kids who are uninspired in those areas (at least). The teachers yammer on about using various methods to solve math problems, but most of the times they don’t understand them or really don’t care. Last I heard the text books that have been published incorporating the common core had been slapped together in very short order. Because our schools were hesitant to buy textbooks that had not been road tested, they adapted modules from some education project in Utah and I have found them to be, frankly, crap. California no longer requires textbooks to be Oked by the California Board of education so the schools are able to teach from whatever they like. It’s depressing. It’s hard to have kids do really well in AP math classes without having some sort of external help.
