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Richard,

I tend to agree with you.  I know my students are much better prepared
that I was for college physics - should they decide to take it.  And I
know they work much harder than I did in high school.  In my high school
we did rather well % wise as over 30% took the academic track and that
included physics.  But I recall picking up the World Series during physics
in the fall rather than working through classical mechanics.  Now it would
be called the Physics of Sport. <g>

Lowell

 On Sun, 26 Feb 1995, Richard L Taylor wrote: >
> I think this is garbage. My kids work hard, and they know more than I
> knew when I was in high school (and I knew more than most.) They are
> better adjusted socially, and they are academically better prepared.
> What is different is that there is now a much wider range of kids. In my
> high school of 2000 students there were two physics classes. In our
> school of 1500 we have ten physics classes. To look at those 200+ kids
> and say they are stupid and lazy because they don't all perform like the
> 35 best kids in school 30 years ago is short sighted and dishonest.
> Yearning for the way it used to be means wanting a great portion of the
> population to be illiterate, and only for the few elite to be in our
> physics classes. Don't sell our kids short.
>
> Richard L. Taylor
> J. J. Pearce H. S.
> Richardson, TX