Klarinet Archive - Posting 000916.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@------.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] not just the music department
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 06:44:38 -0500

At 11:12 PM 3/16/2004 -0500, Don wrote:
>It's likely because many teenagers and even twenty and thirty-somethings
>can't perform simple math functions without mechanical help. In the mid
>seventies when Texas Instruments was producing their "high-tech"
>calculators, the instructors at the college I attended would allow their use
>in class, but when exam time rolled around - no calculators. And I have
>always insisted my son, now seventeen, be able to prove to me he can do his
>math problems with paper and pencil, he never knows when a pop quiz is
>coming.
>
>But in the case of children like Ormondtoby's daughter, I agree that the
>rules have to be different. It is a shame that government has to involve
>itself in our education system in such a clueless yet obviously self-serving
>way again, at the expense of those least able to defend themselves.

The problem is "one-size-fits-all" solutions being applied to situations
which are extremely variable!

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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