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25. That's half

Tue Dec 8, 2015, 02:23 PM

Dec 2015

however, I was just reading last night about parental experiences with Common Core and I was also immediately reminded of the "new math". My parents didn't get it (I didn't either) - and they had college degrees - and my mother got p.o.'d and taught me "the long way" or whatever - basically, traditional math, so I at least knew one way to do it.

Now, I don't recall exactly the tenets of "New Math" but I get the impression it's the same as "Common Core" (same socially, not technically).

I agree with the article. And, although I won't elaborate, I have a lot more time with this subject than I've acknowledged.

Oh, I mentioned passwords, alarms, and selfies, not as it being a problem, but simply an indicator of why I thought it meant the kids got to bring it home as opposed to being only in class. I didn't (and won't) discuss connection problems, anyway, they're unrelated to the core problem.

Despite my background, I generally discouraged computer use with my son as long as I could pull it off. It fell apart by the time he was a teenager, but at least I tried

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