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In reply to the discussion: 20-fold increase in standardized testing coming with Gates Foundation's "Common Core": [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)Your lack of knowledge about how kids learn, what it takes to teach a child, is severely lacking. Kids aren't standardized, they aren't plug 'n play like computers. They are young, developing humans, a much more complicated animal.
Ooo, you learned car mechanics on your own, congratulations. You know what, you are probably a visual/kinesthetic learner, like millions of others who learn how to work on cars while growing up(including myself, first learned mechanics at ten).
I would teach a third grader algebra if they were ready for algebra, if they had the basics required to learn algebra. Somehow, unless you had some seriously accelerated math in K-2, I doubt you actually took up algebra in the third grade. It generally takes at least four, five years to learn all the basic math needed to undertake algebra.
So since you've not had any training or experience in education, what makes you think that you're an expert, that you have all the answers? Sheer hubris?