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2004-11-09 - 10:25 p.m. Dear Calgary Board of Education/Alberta Learning: Please re-evaluate the way you have the high school courses set up. I realize you wish to make the students challenge themselves and/or feel the need to slam their head into a wall, but the jump from Chemistry 20 and Math 20 to Chemistry 30 and Math 30 is far too extreme. Perhaps if you actually displaced part of the grade 11 curriculum with information that would give the fine high school students of this generation some sort of a base for their last (and may I add, most important/influential) year of highschool, less students would suffer. Trigiometric curves, spacial geometry, analysis of double-napped cones, and molar enthalpy are not exactly the easiest things to wrap your mind around, especially if you have only one hour's worth of instruction. I do realize that the "real world" is very difficult and we must be prepared, but there must be some sort of a process which could ease our youth into reality, without causing implosion/ulscers/spontaneous outbursts of rage, fear and/or crying. A Calgarian Scholar |
