Faith under fire: Student told to remove rosary

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208. In recent years testing has become important to establish benchmarks to compare ...

the progress of students. This has led to "teaching the test" and consequently to less knowledge being passed from teacher to student.

I have noticed that high school students today have little interest in or knowledge of history. They have told me that they feel that it is one of the most boring and useless subjects in school.

I was very fortunate in that I had some excellent history teachers in high school who were able to tie the past and the present together and show how distant events in our history have caused us to be what we are today and how only a slight difference would have been magnified through the years. Of course in those days teachers had less paperwork to deal with and far less supervision. They were allowed to actually teach the subject rather that to get the students to memorize test answers.