I was looking at CNBC the other day and with a rather smart recent grad from A New York City School the other day, when we happened to see that the price of oil had gone up. Of cause I had some rather choice words to say about that. The grad then asked me how does oil work in my car. I explained that about the internal combustion engine that I had learned in my general science course in high school.
I then asked if the modern day high school has a general science course.The reply was no. We got to talking about math. I was asked about math A and B which the present day student must pass.
This was explained to me that this was algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus in two years.
Now back in the day, a long time ago when I was going to high school each one of those math courses took an entire year to complete. For some reason I don't think the modern day student is any smarter in math then the students of yesteryear, my gut feeling is that the administration has gotten dumber. Now we were not brilliant mind you, a great many of us took a foreign language, and after two years we were lucky if we could ask a person name and for a cup of coffee. I understand this hasn't changed.
My question to myself has schooling changed for the better. My answer would have to be no.
I even understand that not every high school in New York City has a biology lab. I guess Biology no as sexy as computer science.
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