CB>  MS>     Many HS students can't handle advanced math 
CB>  MS> courses, if only because math is a _sequential_ 
CB>  MS> subject.
CB>  MS>     Trying to teach some kid Algebra II when he never got a good 
CB>  MS> grasp of junior-high prealgebra is an exercise in 
CB>  MS> futility, since the kid would have to learn not 
CB>  MS> only the Algebra II but two years of prealgebra 
CB>  MS> skills in one year.
CB>  
CB> Hey, keep em dumb, there are plenty of jobs in North Carolina's 
CB> mills, 
CB> right Matt?
    Most jobs in America's economy _hardly_ demand any math skills beyond a 
_firm_ grasp of 7th-8th grade prealgebra.
    Look at lawyers, accountants, bank tellers, loan officers, secretaries, 
salespeople, etc. before getting smart about North Carolina textile mills.  
(It's amazing how little math beyond the 7th-8th grade level I've used since 
getting a B.A. in it, and I work in a law office instead of a mill.)
CB> Most kids can do _FAR_ better in math than they do.  It isn't their 
CB> lack of
CB> potential, it is people like you that don't want the "underclass" 
CB> educated 
CB> - heaven forbid that they might rise to their potential.
    Turn off the Marxist rhetoric.
    Maybe the kid's own apathy has a lot more to do with why he doesn't learn 
math than capitalist subjugation.  I've seen plenty of kids from country-club 
homes that did abysmally in math and math-related subjects for that reason.
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