RM> former student stopped in today; he's a freshman this year
RM> at college.  Like so many before him, he mentioned how he's
RM> working so much harder now than he was last year in high
RM> school.  As he's talking, I'm thinking to myself: Here WE
RM> are, rethinking our educational system, our delivery system,
RM> our evaluation system, because kids are not succeeding in
RM> school, and here's a kid who was taking physics, presumeably
RM> one of our best students, who's telling me he hardly worked
RM> while in school (until now, in college)...
    This kid didn't arrive in HS knowing the content of any math-based 
physics course.  If he got a good grade in it, he either did learn it (and 
work to) _or_ the grades were inflated wildly.  (My HS physics course had the 
latter problem.)
    He didn't arrive in HS knowing the content of any math-oriented chemistry 
course, either.  If he did well on grades in math-based subjects, he either 
worked _or_ the grades were inflated.  Or the standards were too easy.
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