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- From: elg@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com (Eric Lee Green)
- Message-ID: <00721448750@elgamy.uucp.taronga.com>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 20:25:50 CDT
- Newsgroups: sci.math,misc.education
- Subject: Re: Is Math Hard?
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- Organization: Eric's Amiga 2000 @ Home
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- From article <ccDyTB3w164w@allen.com>, by carolyn@allen.com (Carolyn Allen):
- > ...excuse me, but what class is supposed to teach you study skills? I
- > thought every kid knows how to learn, some better than others, but if a
-
- Obviously you are not a teacher :-).
-
- Study skills, like almost all human skills, are learned skills. The fact
- that they are not generally taught in class is irrelevant. Study skills are
- part of the repertoire of middle-class upbringing. Those of us who attended
- weaker school systems and did not have the luxury of a middle-class
- upbringing had to learn study skills on our own, with varying success.
-
- Accusing someone of "sloth" is unwarranted in this case. I believe that you
- owe an apology to someone.
-
- As a teacher in an inner-city school I see, every day, skills my students
- are missing that my middle-class nephews learned as a matter of course in
- their homes. I resent you calling my kids "lazy" simply because they did
- not have the same advantages as you. Some (few) of my parents may be
- "lazy". But my kids work their tails off, thank you. The fact that nobody
- ever taught them productive ways of doing so isn't an indictment of the
- kids, but, rather, an indictment of their education.
-
- Eric Lee Green elg@elgamy.taronga.com Dodson Elementary
- (713) 664-6446 Houston, TX
- "Kids are kids, no matter what"
-