[Evans, Marv]

Unfortunately k.b. is right about teachers having to do more while students do less. Plus some of the "new" ideas that come along are so bad, I don't see how anybody in education goes for it without a peep. Back when I was teaching high school level, at one time there was a rage to have students use calculators in math classes. I was told to allow them to use calculators to solve problems & take tests. The reasoning was that in the future everybody would use calculators and computers to do everything. My question to them was, "What if they don't have a calculator or computer on hand at the time?" I never allowed my students to use calculators on tests, and could only use calculators to do their work after they had demonstrated to me they could solve problems by head & hand. Others were happy to let students do everything using calculators. I still wonder what the result of that was.